Art
ART 108 Art, Design, and Social Practice
Studio-based course teaching strategies for social change, activism, and organizing using social design tools. Students gain experience developing design pieces and artworks to communicate their position on issues affecting their lived experiences and community struggles. Students develop artworks and content using social design practices, tools, systems, and strategies. The final design piece/artwork can utilize graphic design, digital platforms and publications, maps and spatial representation, exhibition design, 3D models for physical spaces, public interventions, video, and digital media, among other possibilities, including analogical forms of gathering people and manifesting social positions. (Formerly Activate Media! New Media Art Activism and Organizing.)