Topics:

Integrated Creative Inquiry & Studio Practice: using artistic studio practice and multidisciplinary approaches toward broadening the conceptual range by which student research contributes to cultural imagination.

Research Methodologies: joining elements of poiesis, techne, episteme, and phenomena in a multidisciplinary studio

Mapping Research Trajectories to the larger world (and Leaving Room for Mistakes, Flights of Fancy, and Improvisation)

Multiple Ramifications of Our Research: thinking in and outside our discipline
Field Research: personal and class field trips:
- Computer Science Intermingling,
- Architecture Intermingling: NYC CASE / Center for Architecture Science and Ecology,
- NYC galleries, museums, artists’ studios,
- Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking, “Human Being in an Inhuman Age”
- Cog Sci Intermingling

Other:
- Emapc events & research,
- The Sanctuary for Independent Media,
- Walking tours (Janet Cardiff style),

Currents, Issues and Needs

Counter-thinking

Reconstruction

Action Plan

Iterations, Refining

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Learning outcomes:

1.Upon successful completion of the course students will have the ability to identify contemporary issues, research related topics, incorporate multiple trans-disciplinary perspectives, resonate critical approaches, and propose ideas and potential solutions as evidenced in a series of short studies, a final project, and accompanying scholarly paper.

2. Students will develop one or more of the following skills: art making, programming, design, engineering or creative strategies which merge concept, process and form - encouraging approaches that are at once inquisitive, analytical, creative, experimental and articulate.

3. Upon successful completion of the course, students will have the ability of thinking outside their home discipline.

4. Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to create an archeological, socio-cultural and ethical overview of their own research.