Artist, Tinkerer, Architect, Engineer (Fall 2025)

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Instructor : Judith Barry

TA : Michelle Huang

Lab Fee : Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Credit : 3-3-6 U / 3-3-3 G

Schedule : W 2-5

Location : E15-207

Seminar connecting the arts and sciences by exploring methodological similarities and differences across the arts, architecture, engineering, and social sciences. Through targeted reading and exercises, each student develops a collaborative project that engages directly with another discipline. Projects are iterated over the course of the term. Readings, visitors, and lectures expose students to a wide range of practitioners across different fields. Students interrogate the underlying methodologies that unite and separate their disciplines. Presents best-practice models for cultivating collaboration through the use of case studies alongside visual research techniques. Visitors to the class may include Caroline A. Jones, Paul Vanouse, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, Candice Hooper, Jens Hauser, Pierre Huyghe, Po-Hao Chi among others.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor

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