Pratt Integrative Courses – Summer 2022
300s: At the Vangarde!
- PIC 300: Focus: Expand. SUMMER I. MON 10-3:20. Chelsea Limbird.
- PIC 303: Bold/Rogue. SUMMER I. WED 9-1:20. TUES/THURS 9-2:20. Amir Parsa.
330s: Alt-Fuse
- PIC 335: Environment Perception. SUMMER I. WED 9-12:50. MON/FRI 9-11:50. Alex Goldberg.
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Course Descriptions
PIC 300:
Focus: Expand
Chelsea Limbird
This course focuses on the development of integrative capacities through students’ own prior work, personal experiences, and future interests. Through exercises, activities, the examination of case studies, and projects that engage students in collaborative work and individualized and directed learning, students revisit their own aesthetics and connect their life experiences to academic work. They also examine connections across disciplines while engaging in extended reflection on their own learning.
PIC 303
Bold/Rogue
Amir Parsa
This course invites students to shake up their work, create new genres and forms, fuse disciplines, take aesthetic and stylistic risks, and balance individual work with collaborations and interventions. Through the study and making of avant-garde pieces, the questioning of canons, the cultivation of idleness (that’s right, doing nothing), and other radical actions, the class guides students to envision innovative paths for their future studies and projects. Go rogue. Be bold. And create groundbreaking work!
PIC 335
Environment Perception
Alex Goldberg
This course draws on design theory, the students’ individual creative practices, and an interdisciplinary lens to develop methods for understanding individual and collective relationships with people and one’s surroundings. Through analytical exercises and various making projects, students will heighten their observation skills and their understanding of the subtleties that enhance and shift perception. For the culmination project, students will create an “environment” that represents their spatial identity and nurtures their creative practice.