This interdisciplinary course will explore the geopolitics and culture of places within the limits of specific city sites and establish a global discourse with students from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey on similar critical social issues. This conversation is based on an exchange of ideas generated from student work in progress. The purpose of this exchange is to research the development of the two respective cities, specifically explore the geopolitical and cultural heritage of designated neighborhoods focusing on the underrepresented community. This semesters course concentration concerns Gentrification, Displacement and the Homeless. The participants assume the role of artist/designer as an ethnographer or fieldworker in the relationship between action and public space by responding according to her/his individual interest.
Locality and Global Discourses – Spring 2019 