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Cross-Disciplinary Classes

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A black and white photograph of two people holding a partner acrobatics position.
Professor Jen Light performs partner acrobatics

Thinking on Your Feet

Exploring the potentials of embodied education through dance
Spatial Frequencies drawing project, MIT Museum Studio 2022. Photo credit: Sarah Schwettmann.

Drawing Human Experience

Tobias Putrih's CoD. Courtesy of the artist.

Creating Art – Thinking Science

Reimagining creative expression with emerging technologies
Circular images of deserted mountains and a rock sundial.
The Deep Time Project. Courtesy of Cristina Parreño Alonso.

The Deep Time Project

Reframing current global challenges from the deep (planetary) and shallow (human) timescales
Four professors who co-taught the class, smiling and looking into the cameras.
Queer-Feminist-Antiracism Future and Design for the Future cotaught by Danielle Wood (top left) and J. Austin Eyer (bottom right) with guest artists Jennifer Harrison Newman (center top) and Paul Lieber (bottom center).

Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future

Exploring dynamics of intersectional identities in complex systems and theater
Prathima Muniyappa (with camera) and other class members examine a student demo. Credit: Graham Jones.
Prathima Muniyappa (with camera) and other class members examine a student demo. Credit: Graham Jones.

Paranormal Machines

Detecting and measuring the paranormal
Adesola Akinleye faces the camera and smiles.
Portrait of Adesola Akinleye. Credit: Foteini Christofilopoulou.

Adesola Akinleye

Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space
Ian Hattwick. Courtesy of the artist.
Ian Hattwick. Courtesy of the artist.

Ian Hattwick’s Instrument Design as Artistic Practice

Discovering new sounds and new forms of music-making
“Generative drawing” critique, 4.022 Architectural Design Fundamentals, 2015. Photo: S. Lacey.

Transcending The Algorithm: Architecture Students Create Generative Drawings

With his canvas stretched on the floor, Jackson Pollock dipped brushes or sticks into paint cans; then he drew in the air, dripping paint on the canvas, hovering, leaning, lunging, and gesturing here and there with varying speed. His pace, … Continued

Students reach for one of several earbuds and ipods suspended above.
Student installation for “The Harmonic Archive,” 2014.

The Harmonic Archive: Music, Sound & Installation Art as Artistic Research

Anyone who rides public transportation has likely experienced this breach of commuter etiquette: fellow passengers’ oblivion to the tinny blare emanating from their headphones. Students enrolled in “The Harmonic Archive: Music, Sound & Installation Art as Artistic Research” have used … Continued

A person stands next to a mannequin wrapped in wires and thin rods.
J. Meejin Yoon, Defensible Dress. Credit: MY Studio

Design Across Scales: CAST Class Creates New Paradigm for Design Education

Multimedia class, “Design Across Scales” creates new paradigm for design education.

Vision in Art and Neurology

Pawan Sinha’s “Vision in Art and Neuroscience”

Vision in Art and Neuroscience

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