Pratt Integrative Courses – Summer 2023
300s: At the Vangarde!
- PIC 300: Focus: Expand. SUMMER II. THURS 9-4:30. Chelsea Limbird.
- PIC 303: Bold/Rogue. SUMMER I. TUES 9-1:20. Amir Parsa.
330s: Alt-Fuse
- PIC 336: The Alchemical Imagination. SUMMER II. MON/WED 10-1:20. Eliza Swann.
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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 336
The Alchemical Imagination
Eliza Swann
Alchemists refer to their combined practices as “The Great Art.” In this course, we will use metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination, using alchemical symbolism as a springboard to expand our own capacities as thinkers and makers. Together, we will perform in-class experiments and trace the philosophies of alchemy through its applications in early mathematics, proto-chemistry, healing arts, psychology, visual art and literature to develop the tools to arrive at our own “Great Art.”