12/3/18: Class 71: Course Catalogs, Contracts, "Council on Shared Learning" & Individual Meetings
12/3/18: Class 71: Course Catalogs, Contracts, "Council on Shared Learning" & Individual Meetings
Hi Projects 🌬❄
We meet again this afternoon from 2-5pm in room 901 of the NAB. Including this today's class we have 3 sessions left this semester (today + 12/10 and 12/17). We'd like to figure out a way between now and the end of the semester to check-in with each of you individually, especially if you're not formally returning next semester, just to circle back on things ranging from your presentations, conversations or topics you found useful, and additional support or resources you might want moving forward.
In class today we'll wrap up Chapter 3 of the Singerman text, with hopes to return to a close reading of Chapter 4 next semester. In light of our upcoming focus on the curriculum and process of new faculty hires and as Singerman's text has outlined the postwar tectonic shifts between Fine Arts, Visual Arts, and Design we thought it might make sense to begin to look at some of our own historical course offerings. You might have seen in your inboxes that Jakob has shared a chronologically organized Google Folder of scanned course catalogs roughly dating from 1909 to around 1975, he's also included a helpful'Read Me' document with some notes!
If we take for comparison catalogs 1970/71 right around the time of the Hedjuk renovation you'll see that the schools are listed as 'Art and Architecture' and 'Engineering and Science' versus just a decade later in the 1980/81 catalog where the schools have split off and are now individuated as 'Art, Architecture, and Engineering' (the formal split happening ~1975 once the building renovation was complete). If you get a chance take a peak at both of these catalogs and make note if anything stands out to you off the bat, both are re-attached directly below.
1970-71 School of Art and Architecture.pdf
In final news, a 'Message To The Cooper Community' has finally gone out about the new ""Council on Shared Learning""....
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Re-cap of last week's class 11/26
- There were to be 2 meetings between HSS faculty and students/student reps on Tuesday/Wednesday
- Within the School of Art, the Art History (HTA) sequence is being re-worked over the course of the next year partially in response to HSS protests
- The Diversity Task Force report was supposedly due
- Josiah shared some of this unpacking of the 'Strategic Plan' via Delueze's reading of Spinoza which he first encountered in HSS2 with Sonya Sayres regarding the 'plan of immanence', he mentioned qualities like vibrations that might inform beyond the purely visual
- Zuri shared her experience growing up in a district of Atlanta that was undergoing investment/development along class lines that were reflected in the zoning of the city, the conversation steered mainly towards the idea of shells/boundaries, how if at all to feel good about one's placement in an institution, reputation, and the idea of 'vast spaces of enclosure' via Deleuze's 'Post Script on Control Societies '
- We looked briefly again at cooper.edu and the Great Hall programming making note of the increase stand-out/blockbuster-ish style events including last weeks event featuring Blondie
- Lastly a comic about Twisting Time... ⏳
