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Course Descriptions
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Syllabi
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Student Projects
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Special Projects
Curricular Activities: Student Projects
Foundations in Creativity and Innovation Course
Transformative Practice Projects
The Transformative Practice Project brings focus to the ordinary in order to transform it into the extra-ordinary. It is self-directed and should be designed to destabilize patterns and challenge even the most mundane of actions so that you may awaken and ignite creative potential. A journal accompanies the very physically engaged and ongoing out-of-class development of this 5 week project. Students launch the project by observing morning rituals or walking styles or pathways to locate and disrupt habituated patterns. They then begin to introduce creative ideas to alter and in fact, reinvent aspects generally taken for granted in daily life.
Katherine Williams: Photo series and Text
Final Projects
The Final Project in spring 2008 was built upon 5 concepts derived from architectural design approaches: mediate, filter, classify, regulate, circulate. One or more of these became a framework to formulate ‘idea translations’ as explored through the ArtScience Lab module based upon David Edward’s Artscience:Creativity in the Post-Google Generation. These Final Projects which were self-determined and directed also drew from the Transformative Practice Project that for many continued to evolve throughout the entire semester. The projects were also influenced by researching "Design for the Other 90%", an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Many became entrepreneurial venture proposals while others were still at the seed idea stage. Given the multiple disciplinary interests and backgrounds in the class (some had not declared the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise minor) the outcomes were necessarily variable, but all inventive, and indeed, entrepreneurial in that respect.
Ryan Fadly: Presentation, Audio
Matt Dillon: Video
Saiyani Mukombe: For the Good of the 90% (Presentation)
