Building the Research with a New Team

We are resuming activity with a new group of students coming from Columbia, Jacksonville, Beijing, Hangzhou, and Greer with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning and packaging. We will be working from a series of texts and discussions on temporality, public space and representation. We will use audio, video and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) to explore the potential of a drawing which is temporal and ever-changing and which looks at the body of the city in its intimate relationship to the mapping of the human body. The seminar will use historical references in architecture, film, cartography, photography, drawing, literature, urbanism, biology, sociology, science, and physiology… as well as contemporary visualization examples in graphic design, art, architecture, medicine, aviation...