7/9/18: Fall 2018 Welcome
7/9/18: Fall 2018 Welcome
Hi everybody,
We’re sending you this message because you signed up for Projects: The Cooper Union this fall.
Here’s our course description if you haven’t seen it:
This is the third continuous year of Projects. Our participants have included enrolled and auditing students from all schools and all years, alumni, community members, and other interested parties.
A typical semester includes weekly class bulletins, frequent guest presentations and discussions, site visits, close-reading of texts together; as well as workshops, investigations, and interventions in response to the historical and ongoing goings-on of the institution.
The class first took shape in 2016 on April Fools Day at an undisclosed cigar bar. The original proposal was for an autonomous inter-generational study-group, helping bridge community members grappling with the after-effects of the CSCU lawsuit and the charging of tuition. Soon, a pre-existing class“Projects” was re-cast as “Projects: The Cooper Union”, a space embedded within the curriculum, through which participants come together weekly to attend (as in wait for and stretch toward) expected and unexpected sounds, images, forms, volumes, gestures, feelings, and concepts generated by these unfolding events.
The class is semi-porous, open to people dipping their toes in, and those looking to be connected with information or other resources. If you think of anybody who might be interested, feel free to forward this email and put them in touch with us.
On our class wiki(http://projectsthecooperunion.wiki)you’ll find documentation from past semesters including meetings, emails, guests, and site visits.
Finally, this semester we’ll be using a listserv for announcements and conversation. Visit the link below and enter your email to get on the class announcement + discussion list:
[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/projectsthecooperunion/join](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/projectsthecooperunion/join)
You’ll then be subscribed to our regular updates, and be able to reach the entire group just by emailing projectsthecooperunion@googlegroups.com
See you soon!
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⚠️ 🏊♀️ 🏄♀️ Bonus: special announcement! 🧗♀️🗿
We’re planning our annual summer day trip, to the brownstone quarry/waterpark from which the Foundation Building was mined, before class begins. We’ll reach out later with more details, but feel free to reply now briefly if you’re interested.
