TDS-358A: Now/Then: Speculative Making

Now and Then is a transdisciplinary studio course, open to all majors, in which we will investigate the relationships between objects, spaces, people and time. This will include studying and making writing, film, artworks and other media that scrutinize our present by imagining it into the near and far future: Speculative documentary, fiction that "futures," magical realism. We will develop our own metaphors through the use of recontextualized present-day materials, then apply these new ways of seeing in our respective practices. Learning modalities will include, but not be limited to: reading and research, discussion, lecture, field studies, collaborative workshops, studio time and critique. At the end of the term students will have developed a set of conceptual tools that support a more sustainable, architectural way of thinking through art making and design.