Site and Situation: Social Space and Public Art

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What is the relationship between “Site” and “Situation”? How do economic, political and global entities use social space as means of perpetuating social constructs, collective identity, and human behaviors? Public art is one aspect of how social spaces are defined and curated. However, what is “public art”? How is it practiced? How can artists make their own moves to interpret and re-situate site? Students will use Shanghai as a case study to investigate how materials both inform and are informed by location, communities, and geography. They will conduct field work and learn basic architectural drafting and maquette-building skills through workshops and technical art assignments. They will develop one semester-long individual project made up of a scale model of a site accompanied by a portfolio of drawings, images and writing. Anti-Requisite: ART-SHU 222 Site and Situation: Social Space and Public Art. Fulfillment: General elective.