Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0309 - Advanced Design + Media Lab

This course is open to second year Division II and Division III students and Five College seniors completing or anticipating advanced architectural or other design studio projects. The Advanced Design + Media Lab course provides a structured and critical creative environment for students to explore, experiment and design in both an individual and collaborative studio setting. In this course, students will develop their own individual design projects, identifying their own approach, scope and thesis, then executing their creative acts throughout the semester. As a concentrator's course, students will be expected to engage in both the creative challenges presented by the course while working on their own independent semester-long projects. This course is highly interdisciplinary in nature, yet designed for students developing projects in physical arts, graphic design, interactive design, industrial design, environmental design, architecture and urban planning. This course will be marked by an intense reading and discussion period, followed by both writing and design production on topics both culled from our readings and individual student projects. This course requires substantial out-of-class studio work and commitments to a rigorous schedule of production, culminating in a collective exhibition at the end of the semester. Students must have an individual project in mind or in progress at the start of the term. For non-Hampshire students, students should have an established work methodology and taken several studios in art or architectural design.

Independent Work Students will need to obtain the written permission of the instructor to take this course. Priority for acceptance will be given to upper-level students. For more information contact: browns@mtholyoke.edu Lab Fee $50.