This materials-driven studio course will be a series of investigations in relation to the human body. Through laboratory experiments with rigid, semi-rigid, and flexible structures, students will translate these properties into two preliminary objects: a cushion and a prosthetic. After break, the primary activity will involve conceiving, designing, making, and critical analyzing a singular everyday object – a bed – made exclusively from ash wood. Studio work will be augmented by lab work and lectures on materials, structures, and the history of beds as a site for art, aesthetics, utility, sexuality, fantasy, cultural identity, and politics.
Distribution Area: SEL
Prerequisites and Restrictions
Any 200-level VIS course or any 200-level CEE ARC, EGR, or MAE course, plus any 200-level HUM course. Or permission of the instructors.
Open to first year undergraduates with permission of the instructors.
Other Information
If this course should become full, please join the course waitlist.
Past Class Work
