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Creativity and innovation thrive on contact between different areas of specialization and expertise. The most creative periods of human history have been when conventional boundaries between disciplines and ways of thinking have become permeable or have been dissolved altogether.... This is precisely why the most creative teams are interdisciplinary. - - Ken Robinson, Out of Their Minds: Learning to Be Creative
Fall 2008 ILML 400 courses for the Liberal Arts & Sciences Department : "Homeboy" Histories and Culture LA Past Lives: A Virtual Architecture Searching for Meaning in the Supernatural Sighting/Siting/Citing the City of Angels
Designing the Political Site partner: the Center for the Study of the Political Graphics. Can design stop a war? Can it topple political structures? Can design conquer social injustice? This course investigates the role of artists and designers as powerful agents of protest and progress. Emphasis will be placed on a historical contextualization of political graphics to learn more about the role of propaganda, the face of the enemy, and the power of the visual text to shape the perception of the “other” for better or worse. Contact Instructor Kerri Steinberg for more information at ksteinberg@otis.edu
Festival
Contact Instructor Andy Davis for more information at adavis@otis.edu
“Homeboy” Histories and Culture
Click here for a look at student projects from last year Contact Instructor Ysamur Flores-Pena for more information at ypena@otis.edu
LA Past Lives: A Virtual Architecture A course geared at generating an online archival display of LA’s past communities. The course will reconstruct past physical and social nexuses of neighborhoods/communities in LA combining both architectural and design components with art, cinema and private histories of present and past community members. Contact Instructor Adam Berg for more information at aberg@otis.edu
Movies That Matter Mentor: Judy Arthur Site partner: FilmAid International As artists and designers, students need to understand that movies can inspire and educate as well as entertain. In this class students will gain a historical perspective to understand the past and present in order to visualize the future. Through compelling and entertaining stories, the selected films depict social, political, cultural and gender, racial and ethnic issues. Contact Instructor Perri Chasin for more information at pchasin@otis.edu
The Otis Legacy Project
Click here to look at the youtube video of distinguished alumnus, Milford Zornes Produced in coordiantion with this course last year. Contact Instructor Joan Takayama-Ogawa for more information at takayama@otis.edu
San Joaquin Valley Site Partner: San Joaquin Valley “The globalized nature of our world intersects with all areas of human endeavor. Every sector of society strives to find a balance between the impersonal experience and the direct involvement with communities that in one way or other remain at the apparent periphery of these issues. As artists and designers enter the Twenty First century, issues of identity, meaning and reciprocal influences jump to the center of social and political discourse. This course opens a new way of looking at communities through an immersion experience. As artists and designers you will bring your talents, training, and artistic points of view to a community which in turn will provide you with new and novel ways to look at the world and the environment in which distinct needs and aspirations meet and often collide. The goal is to expand Otis’ walls to embrace the diverse aspects of our modern society through direct hands on experience that will influence the community and most certainly change you for the better.” This course begins on August 14 and ends on September 18. Students who enroll in this course will spend one week in the San Joaquin Valley (Aug 16-29.) Contact Instructors Marlena Donohue or Ysamur Flores-Pena for more information at mdonohue@otis.edu or ypena@otis.edu
Searching for Meaning in the Supernatural Throughout history, people have been fascinated with the supernatural, ghosts, life after death, the paranormal, fairies, aliens, vampires, etc. This course explores these cultures and belief systems as well as a multitude of analytical concepts regarding these issues. Guest speakers representing fields within science and social science along with practitioners of spiritualism will support the class in delving into questions of meaning and the supernatural. Contact Instructor Heather Joseph-Witham for more information at hwitham@otis.edu Sighting/Siting/Citing the City of Angels
Contact Instructor Jeanne Willette for more information at willette@otis.edu Go to Integrated Learning for general information.
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