UDIST300 Re-Imaging Landscape
Prerequisite: Junior standing

In order to reacquaint ourselves with our surroundings and re-envision our landscape and spatial relationships - this studio will engage in a series of playful critiques and conceptual experiments with urban, suburban, rural and natural areas around the Bay Area. We will begin with a look at the Situationaist International, Fluxus and Conceptual Art movements to provide us with some games and theory as we unravel our familiar spatial and conceptual perceptions of the city. How can our relationship to place morph and change to become fodder for new observations? The ways in which we move and relate to our environment always seep into the work we make. The first half of the course will be focused on urban settings and then we will turn to rural spaces. Class willing, a unique requirement of this class includes a trip to Robert Smithson?s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, and other interesting sites in the Salt Lake City region. Northern Utah field trip costs: Students can choose their mode of transportation to the Salt Lake City area. Carpooling is ideal and it is a ten hour drive. Inexpensive camping and shared motel accommodations are available for around $20.00 per night/per person. Food is extra.

Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into his or her upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year.