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ARTS 105      Islands: Intensive Architecture Studio Workshop

Sofia Pia Belenky

M    F     10:10 am-1:10 pm

HDRANX 106

PA

PART

(2 credits)  This intensive workshop will run from January 27 to February 21

Islands have become associated with political separation and symbols of our changing environmental conditions as water levels rise and plastics form archipelagos. Islands also enable critical selectivity rather than imposed connectivity, a rarity in an age of constant status updates and notifications. In brief, islands constrain—they offer a condition that is the fundamental ingredient for this design brief. In the design of our islands we will prototype typologies of micro living and investigate the environmental conditions of an artificial nature. The design studio workshop invites discussions around topics of post-work society, second nature, climate change, borders and domesticity in a micro-living/micro-nation condition. The month-long course will move across a variety of scales; from the design of an object to bring to the island, to a single occupancy home, to the entire island. Developing skills such as CAD drawing, Rhino 3d modeling, casting and GIS mapping will be programmed into this workshop. Maximum costs associated with model making and printing should be $100. No prior experience with architecture or drawing is required. Field trips might be arranged on an informal basis in conversation with participants’ availability.

Class size: 12

 

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ARTS 126      The Artist as Citizen

Jean Churchill

M            7:30 pm-9:00 pm

FISH CONFERENCE

AA

AART

(2 credits)  “There should be no dividing line between artistic excellence and social consciousness.” —Joseph W. Polisi, President of the Juilliard School, wrote in his The Artist as Citizen, published over a decade ago. The choreographer Bill T. Jones believes “The artist plays a distinct role as a witness to truth, by participating in free speech and expression that often comes at personal risk...With all that is happening globally and within our borders, we believe even more in our vision to be a conduit for engagement through the arts.” In this survey course, Bard College artists and scholars from diverse disciplines, including the writer Max S. Gordon and Professor of Music Rufus Müller, evaluate the obligations of citizenship with regard to the arts. Weekly response papers and a final project will be assigned. Two credits. No prerequisites. Registration by permission of Instructor.

Class size: 16

 

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ARTS 130      Being Seen

Lindsay Clark            LAB/Lessons            LAB/Lessons

M         10:10 am-11:30 am W           8:30 am-11:30 am F            8:30 am-11:30 am

FISH NUREYEV ST

PA

Cross-listed: Dance

1 credit In this class we will investigate the phenomenon of being seen. Through the lens of the Alexander Technique, various improvisational modalities, and solo performance, we will work on how to stay connected to our senses and shed unhelpful habits of tension when we are witnessed by others. Students will bring performance material to work on in class. We will define performance as “being observed in activity.” Material could be from any performing art as well as simply reading out loud. We will meet once a week as a group. Each student will select a LAB session for a one-hour, semi-private Alexander Technique lesson, once a week. Please email professor with first and second LAB preference. No previous experience with performing or the Alexander Technique required.

Class size: 12

 

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ARTS 135      The Architecture of an Urbanized Planet: Designing Body and World

Ross Adams

T         10:10 am-1:10 pm Th       10:30 am-12:30 pm

HDRANX

PA

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities This course introduces architecture through a studio-seminar hybrid. We will approach architectural design not by focusing on the production of a particular building, but by working transversally across a number of conceptual scales from the body to the planet. This trans-scalar approach aims to interrogate what it means to practice architecture as a historically, theoretically and methodologically situated field indelibly conditioned by urbanization measured at a planetary scale. Indeed, since at least the twentieth century, architecture’s scope of practice has widened to include landscapes, cities, regions, territories—even the entire planet itself—while also narrowing its focus to include the design of micro environments for and modulations of the human body. The course will allow us not only to understand the techniques and ideas emerging from these various scalar practices, but to cultivate new, critical design approaches to intervene in the spaces and processes of planetary urbanization. Each ‘scale’ we investigate will be accompanied by a corresponding design project. Among the techniques of architectural representation students will learn in the process are basic 2D and 3D CAD drawing, sketching, model making and other forms of representation. Please note studio work involves weekly assignments and, when possible, one or two social events. Computers with required software will be provided by the College, yet costs for model making and printing are not. No prior experience with architecture or drawing are required.

Class size: 12

 

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ARTS 220      Architectural Entanglements with Labor

Ivonne Santoyo Orozco

T  Th     4:40 pm-6:00 pm

OLIN 203

AA

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 Architecture is both the product of labor and the organizer of its relations, yet often these issues remain overshadowed by aesthetic considerations and the broader discourse of design. In shifting the question of labor in architecture to the foreground, this course invites students to reflect on the spatio-political role architecture has played in mediating bodies, work and capital. To do this, we will analyze contemporary transformations to paradigmatic sites of work (offices, factories, tech campuses), as well as the many spaces that have been produced to feed architectural production and its endless cycles of extraction (camps, slums, mines), and the architecture that reproduces forms of maintenance (houses, squares, resorts). We will analyze a diverse set of contemporary and historical architectural precedents against a heterogenous landscape of voices from Maurizio Lazzarato, Silvia Federici, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, David Harvey, Peggy Deamer, Mabel O. Wilson, among others. The course will unfold in a combination of lectures and seminars. There are no exams but students are expected to complete weekly assignments and a final project.

Class size: 15