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Download Spring 2021 Elective Course Offerings ARCHITECTURE and more Slides Computer Networks in PDF only on Docsity! Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 Spring 2021 Elective Course Offerings ARCHITECTURE (Subject to change - Please check course search for up-to-date information) ARCH 685-401: Environmental Readings Frederick Steiner Wednesday and Friday, 10:30am - 12:00pm HYBRID A long, deep green thread exists in American literature from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman through Herman Melville and William Carlos Williams on to Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry. This literature has influenced how we perceive our environments and, in the process, many planners, designers, and conservationists such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jane Addams, Aldo Leopold, Lewis Mumford, Ian McHarg, and Anne Whiston Spirn. In this seminar, we will explore this green thread and analyze its influence on how we shape our environments through design and planning. The course has three parts. Throughout, the influence of literature on design and planning theory will be explored. The first part will focus on the three most important theorists in environmental planning and landscape architecture: Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., Charles Eliot, and Ian McHarg. The senior Olmsted pretty much created the field of landscape architecture, adapting the English landscape aesthetic for the rapidly urbanizing North American continent to address pressing urban issues. Arguably, the planning profession in the United States also began with the senior Olmsted. Charles Eliot was a protégé of Olmsted’s. Eliot pioneered the use of comprehensive, scientific landscape inventories; originated the concept of land trusts; and designed the first metropolitan regional open-space plan. Educated in landscape architecture and city planning, Ian McHarg influenced both fields in the late twentieth century. He urged us to better understand natural processes and how people use space. The second part of the course will critically explore current theories in environmental planning and landscape architecture. The topics will include: frameworks for cultural landscape studies, the future of the vernacular, ecological design and planning, sustainable and regenerative design, the languages of landscapes, and evolving views of landscape aesthetics and ethics. In the third part of the course, students will build on the readings to develop their own theory for ecological planning or, alternatively, landscape architecture. While literacy and critical inquiry are addressed throughout the course, critical thinking is especially important for this final section. ARCH 712-001: Topics in Arch Theory II: Visual Research: Architecture and Media after WWII Taryn Mudge Thursday, 9:00am-12:00pm ONLINE This course will question how architects have engaged in visual research of the built environment within the process of architectural design. In particular, we will consider the media and methods architects have used to observe and to record building sites and how visual information has influenced design thinking and informed architectural proposals in the postwar period. The visual material under investigation in this course will include, but is not limited to, photography (aerial, documentary, street, etc.), film, sketches, painting, collage, mapping as well as magazines and advertisements. Additionally, we will consider the physical distance and relationship between the observer and the observed. For example, does the architect observe the site from the air, as a pedestrian, or through a windshield? Do they borrow images or make their own? Are they in search of precise information or are they hoping to uncover the mood or local character? Are they preparing for a commissioned project or are they dreaming of a utopian future? The course is organized into three parts: Part I will concentrate on approaches to visual research and observation in Europe immediately following the Second World War, Part II will focus on the American context and images of postwar consumer culture, and Part III will discuss the rapid evolution of media and architecture in the late 20th century and question the trajectory of the “post” periods – post-modern, post-post-modern, post-documentary, post-digital and beyond. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 ARCH 712-003: Topics in Arch Theory II: Architectural Envelopes: Technology and Expression Ariel Genadt Thursday, 9:00am-12:00pm ONLINE Since the mid 19th century, architectural envelopes have become the prime subject of experimentations and investments, as well as theoretical conflicts. This seminar takes the revolution of steel and glass technology in the 19th century as a starting point to examine the relationship between construction technologies and architectural expression in the 20th and 21st centuries. It explores the interdependence of theory and practice in case studies located in various cultures and climates around the world, and built in a range of techniques and materials. The lectures are organized thematically, looking at the different ways by which technology can be instrumental in selectively revealing and concealing structural logic, material properties, fabrication, digital tools, climate control, sensorial perception, image-making, symbolism and atmosphere. The seminar develops students’ critical thinking towards contemporary practice, where globalized technology and large capital often hinder the creation of architecture with local cultural pertinence. Understanding the reciprocities between building, technology and expression is essential for creatively tackling architecture’s impact on the environment and sustaining its civic agency. ARCH 712-005: Topics in Arch Theory II: Architectures of Refusal: On Spatial Justice in the South Bronx Eduardo Rega Calvo Thursday, 9:00am-12:00pm ONLINE A neighborhood with a remarkable history of struggle against inept municipal governments, neoliberalism and the forces behind the breeding of decay, the South Bronx is currently experiencing an aggressive wave of gentrification and policies that keep benefitting small elites. Grassroots organizations are fighting back while practicing radical imaginations for a more just future. Architectures of Refusal: On Spatial Justice in the South Bronx aims to reflect and develop collective architecture research on contemporary visionary architectural and urban activist practices in the South Bronx that refuse capitalist exploitation vis a vis New York City’s economic transformation: from top-down public disinvestment and privatization to bottom-up self-provisioning and organizing. Through reading discussions, film/audiovisual analysis and mobilizing various tools of inquiry on the city, the seminar will learn from those involved in the long-term and grassroots processes that have been redrawing the limits of socio-spatial organization in the South Bronx. The seminar will study the history of radical social movements from the second half of the 20th century in NYC with a special focus on the South Bronx. Groups of students will develop research and spatial visualizations of grassroots struggles for environmental and food justice, post-capitalist economic practices, public health, prison abolitionism and anti-gentrification. Some of the work produced in the seminar will be included in the Architectures of Refusal online platform that aims to study and present the socio-spatial, territorial, urban and environmental dimensions of social movements that prefigure a world that refuses the neoliberal oligarchical status quo. ARCH 713-401: Ecological Thinking in Art and Architecture Daniel A. Barber, Mantha Zarmakoupi Thursday, 1:30pm-4:30pm ONLINE In the past three decades, discussions about ecological impact and sustainability have come to prominence in the Arts and Sciences as well as in Architecture and Urban Planning. On the one hand, the growing priority of ecocriticism across the humanities (e.g., the recently developed Undergraduate Minor in Environmental Humanities at Penn) and the enlarged agenda of Eco Art to engage with environmental, aesthetic, social, and political relations have led Art Historians to strive at a probing and pointedly ethical integration of visual analysis, cultural interpretation, and environmental history—for an “Ecocritical Art History.” Architecture schools, on the other hand, have created MA programs, such as “Landscape Urbanism” and “Sustainable Design,” and “Environmental Building Design” and architectural theorists and ecological thinkers coin new terms – “resilience,” “adaptation,” and “mitigation”– in efforts to reframe and more effectively tackle the urgent environmental and demographic pressures of global urban developments. Many of these development aim to articulate a more earth-conscious mode of analysis for art and architecture alike. Such concerns have been intensified recently by initiatives to designate the current era of geological time as the “Anthropocene”—the epoch that began when human phenomena started to have a major influence on the Earth's appearance and ecosystems. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 ARCH 732-004: Tech Designated Elective: Daylighting Jessica Zofchak Tuesday, 6:00pm-9:00pm ONLINE This course aims to introduce fundamental daylighting concepts and tools to analyze daylighting design. The wide range of topics to be studied includes site planning, building envelope and shading optimization, passive solar design, daylight delivery methods, daylight analysis structure and results interpretation, and a brief daylighting and lighting design integration. ARCH 732-005: Tech Designated Elective: Principles of Digital Fabrication Mikael Avery Thursday, 9:00am-12:00pm HYBRID Through the almost seamless ability to output digital designs to physical objects, digital fabrication has transformed the way designers work. At this point, many of the tools and techniques of digital fabrication are well established and almost taken for granted within the design professions. To begin this course we will review these ‘traditional’ digital fabrication techniques in order to establish a baseline skill set to work from. We will then utilize a series of exercises in order to explore a hybrid approaches to digital fabrication in which multiple techniques are utilized within the same work. With the advent of 3D printing technology in the late 1980s and the current wave of widespread adoption as a design tool—found in design schools and offices across the world—the immediate testing of complex digital models has never been quicker, clearer, or more immediate. Despite this formal freedom to test and print, the installations and buildings generated from these complex digital models rely on much more traditional building techniques for their construction. By combining various digital fabrication approaches, we seek to challenge and reframe the often reductive geometries that currently supports much of this work and bring with it a new way of approaching aesthetics, structure, and construction based on the possibilities inherent in these digital tools and techniques. ARCH 732-006: Tech Designated Elective: Heavy Architecture Philip Ryan Thursday, 3:00pm-6:00pm ONLINE Heavy Architecture is a seminar that will examine buildings that, through their tectonics or formal expression, connote a feeling of weight, permanence, or “heaviness.” Analysis of these buildings and methods of construction stand in relation to the proliferation of thin, formally exuberant, and, by virtue of their use or commodified nature, transient buildings. The course is not a rejection or formal critique of “thin” architecture, but instead an analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of the “heavy” building type in terms of a building’s financial, environmental, symbolic or conceptual, and functional goals. The course will parse the alleged nostalgic or habitual reputation of “heavy” architecture within the context of architecture’s ongoing struggle to be the vanguard of the built environment even while its relevancy and voice is challenged by economic, stylistic, and social forces. ARCH 732-007: Tech Designated Elective: Embodied Carbon & Architecture Stephanie Carlisle Thursday, 6:00pm-9:00pm ONLINE The environmental impacts of the built environment are staggering. Buildings are currently responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions, when both operational and embodied carbon are taken into account. Architects have a vital role to play in responding to the current climate emergency, but we can only make substantial progress when we are equipped to evaluate decarbonization strategies and the effects of design decisions. This course brings together an introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the industry-standard method for evaluating the environmental impacts of a building over its whole life cycle, paired with discussion on broader industry trends and technologies aimed at radically decarbonizing the built environment. In the course, students will receive hands-on experience building comparative LCA models, while also exploring material life cycles, industrial processes, supply chain dynamics, and political and economic dimensions of environmental impact data. We will also discuss current innovations in materials manufacturing and policy changes that focus on Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 embodied carbon, which will transform construction practices. The overall goal of the course is to increase carbon literacy and to empower students with a working understanding of climate change, life cycle assessment, and the many strategies by which designers can immediately reduce the carbon footprint of their projects. This course does not require any previous modeling or software experience. **NEW COURSE** ARCH 732-008: Tech Designated Elective: Inquiry into Biomaterial Architectures Laia Mogas-Soldevila Monday, 9:00am-12:00pm ONLINE Traditional building materials are environmentally- and economically-expensive to extract, process, transport or recycle, their damage is non-trivial to repair, and have limited ability to respond to changes in their immediate surroundings. Biological materials like wood, coral, silk, skin or bone outperform man-made materials in that they can be grown where needed, self-repair when damaged, and respond to changes in their surroundings. Their inclusion in architectural practice could have great benefits in wellbeing and the environment defining new tools and strategies towards the future of sustainable construction. Crucial projects describing future biomaterial architectures are emerging in the field. In this seminar, students will review their potential through lectures followed by case studies and propose future developments through a guided research project with special attention to functional, industrial, environmental and aesthetic dimensions. The course is structured to foster fundamental scientific literacy, cross-disciplinary thinking, creativity, and innovation in biomaterials in design. ARCH 734-001: Ecological Architecture, Contemporary Practices Todd Woodward Tuesday, 9:00am-12:00pm ONLINE Architecture is an inherently exploitive act – we utilize resources from the earth and produce waste and pollution to create and occupy buildings. We have learned that buildings are responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, 15% of water use and 30% of landfill debris. This growing realization has led building designers to look for ways to minimize negative environmental impacts. Green building design practices are seemingly becoming mainstream. Green building certification programs and building performance metrics are no longer considered fringe ideas. This course will investigate these trends and the underlying theory with a critical eye. Is "mainstream green" really delivering the earth-saving architecture it claims? As green building practices become more widespread, there remains something unsatisfying about a design approach that focuses on limits, checklists, negative impacts and being “less bad.” Can we aspire to something more? If so, what would that be? How can or should the act of design change to accommodate an ecological approach? ARCH 736-001: Tech Designated Elective: Building Acoustics Joe Solway Tuesday, 3:00pm-6:00pm 0.5 CU – 01/20/21 – 03/09/21 ONLINE This course covers the fundamentals of architectural acoustics and the interdependence between acoustics and architectural design. The course explores the effects of building massing, room shape and form, and architectural finishes on a project site’s soundscape and the user’s acoustic experience. It will include fundamentals on sound, sound isolation, room acoustics and building systems noise control, a lecture on the history and future of performance space design, a virtual visit to the Arup SoundLab, and two assignments. ARCH 736-002: Tech Designated Elective: Virtual Construction & Detailing with BIM Patrick Morgan Thursday, 6:00pm-9:00pm 0.5 CU – 01/20/21 – 03/09/21 ONLINE Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become the standard of building construction, design, and operation. During the past decade significant changes have taken place in the nature of design and construction practices which has transformed the very nature of architectural representation. Architects no longer draw 2D deceptions of what they intend others to build, but they instead model, code, simulate and integrate the final built product virtually, alongside their colleagues and collaborators, architects, engineers and builders. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 The production of an information rich BIM is the ground upon which all construction activities for advanced and complex buildings take place. BIM is also the origins of contemporary innovations in Integrated Design, the creation of collaborative platforms which aim to maximize the sustainable outcomes in the project delivery of buildings. Moreover, being able to collaboratively produce, share and query a BIM makes possible the global practice of design and construction. The course will familiarize students to this important field of architectural practice. ARCH 736-005: Tech Designated Elective: Water Shaping Architecture Stuart Mardeusz & Jonathan Weiss Tuesday, 3:00pm-6:00pm 0.5 CU - 03/12/21 – 04/29/211 HYBRID While efforts in sustainable design have focused on energy use, carbon footprint, light and impacts on human occupants, it could be argued that water is the ultimate test of sustainability. Water is amongst the most compelling and significant design topics of the 21st Century. Not just a necessity of life, water has central social, cultural, and symbolic meanings and plays an essential role for all living organisms. As our planet is ever more challenged to provide for increasing populations with finite resources, our approach to water will need to evolve to meet our new and future realities. The goals of this course are to recognize the significant history of designing water, and touch upon the social, cultural, ecologic, and economic impact that designed water has had and will play in the 21st Century, and in addressing urgent global challenges linked to climate change. Water Shaping Architecture will challenge individuals to project possibilities for our disciplines and begin to inform students about the crucial role design plays in shaping this resource. How do our choices as architects impact access to water, and how are those issues predetermined on a building, local, regional and continental scale? How can our projects react resiliently to changing climate and changing reality? If Sustainability is about providing for our needs while allowing for future generations to do the same, how does our outlook on water shape our decision-making process? The class includes readings, short sketch assignments and case studies, field trips (in person as possible or virtual) and a final case study report. ARCH 736-006: Tech Designated Elective: Architectural Workflows in the Design and Delivery of Buildings Richard Garber Monday, 9:00am-12:00pm 0.5 CU – 03/12/21 – 04/29/21 ONLINE This seminar in design and technology will focus on the concept of the architectural workflow as it pertains to both contemporary operations in design practice as well as novel project delivery methods enabled by Building Information Modeling (BIM). The synthesis of these digital design platforms with simulation and increasing access to data in the form of natural phenomena, ecology, and building performance has allowed contemporary architects to engage the notion of workflows with others in design and construction practices. Increasingly, this engagement involves object-oriented computing operations and non-human interfaces that expand architectural scope beyond buildings, allowing us to more broadly consider the complex environments in which our buildings exist. As such, workflows occupy an expanded territory within architectural practice and merge digital-design operations with construction activities, project delivery, and post-occupation scenarios in both virtual and actual formats. The implications for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry could not be greater, and these new collaborative models have become as important as the novel buildings they allow us to produce. ARCH 744-001: Digital Fabrication Ferda Kolatan Monday, 7:00pm-10:00pm ONLINE This course explores the conceptual and material intersections between digital technology and contemporary aesthetics. The seminar will examine how ‘3D Color Printing’ can expand our conceptual, historical, and material understanding of the relationship between images and objects in the context of architecture. Through the design and fabrication of a “Digital Folly”, the students will advance their technical skills while also reflecting on architecture’s rich tradition of manifesting cultural ideas through the combination of the pictorial with the tectonic in novel ways. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 CITY PLANNING CPLN 531-001: Introduction to Environmental Planning & Policy Thomas Daniels Tuesday and Thursday, 9am-10:30am ONLINE Overview of federal programs for protecting air quality, water quality, and endangered species along with managing climate change, solid waste, toxics, energy, transportation, and remediating brownfields in an overall sustainability framework. State-level, local government, and NGO efforts to protect the environment are also explored as are green infrastructure and green cities. CPLN 631-001 Planning for Land Conservation, Thomas Daniels Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30pm-8pm ONLINE Land preservation is one of the most powerful, yet least understood planning tools for managing growth and protecting the environment. This course provides an introduction to the tools and methods for preserving private lands by government agencies and private non-profit organizations (e.g., land trusts). Topics include purchase and donation of development rights (also known as conservation easements), transfer of development rights, land acquisition, limited development, and the preservation of urban greenways, trails, and parks. Preservation examples analyzed: open space and scenic areas, farmland, forestland, battlefields, and natural areas. CPLN 685-401: Environmental Readings Frederick Steiner Wednesday and Friday, 10:30am-12pm HYBRID In this seminar, we will explore this green thread and analyze its influence on how we shape our environments through design and planning. The course has three parts. Throughout, the influence of literature on design and planning theory will be explored. The first part will focus on three most important theorists in environmental planning and landscape architecture: Frederick Law Olmstead Sr., Charles Eliot and Ian McHarg. The second part of the course will critically explore current theories in environmental planning and landscape architecture. The topics include: frameworks for cultural landscape studies, the future of the vernacular, ecological design and planning, sustainable and regenerative design, the languages of landscapes, and evolving views of landscape aesthetics and ethics. In the third part of the course, students will build on the readings to develop their own theory for ecological planning or, alternatively, landscape architecture. While literacy and critical inquiry are addressed throughout the course, critical thinking is especially important for this final section. CPN 665-001: Case Studies and Urban Design Exploration David Gouveneur Tuesday, 9am-12pm HYBRID This dynamic class in which each session is centered on a particular topic (see list below), combining class discussions and also the presentation of short planning/design exercises produced by small groups without the pressure of the studios, allowing to rapidly identify design opportunities, delivering the proposals with compelling narratives, strategic moves, graphics, models and verbal communication. Participants in this course are expected to become familiarized with a diversity of urban references, while acquiring skills that will facilitate planning and design processes, appreciating the value of interdisciplinary and multi-scaler initiatives, and the transformative contributions of city design/placemaking. Course topics include: good cities offer...; from territory to site-specific; on the public realm; on the urban infill; delving on history; mobility/infrastructure and urban form; community and urban design; Landscape/Ecological/Transformative Urbanism Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 FINE ARTS DSGN 500: Contemporary Theories of Design Maite Borjadad Tuesday, 1:30pm-4:30pm ONLINE This seminar explores a range of theories, concepts, and thought patterns that shape different disciplines of design. From critical science studies to object-orient ontology and speculative design, it discusses how theoretical frameworks drive innovation, critique, and user experience. DSGN 506: DESIGN 21: Design After the Digital Orkan Telhan Monday, 1:30pm-4:30pm ONLINE Last century, the digital revolution transformed every aspect of our lives. It shaped every design discipline and defined the ways we imagine and fabricate anything from images to everyday products to clothing, cars, buildings and megacities. Today, design is going through other technical and conceptual revolutions. We design with biotechnologies, fall in love in Virtual Reality with AI bots, rent our cognitive labor through cryptocurriencies. Our creative capabilities, on the other hand, are bounded by a polluted, over-crowded, and resource-constrained planet that is suffering major income and educational inequality. Design After the Digital interrogates the role of design for this century. The seminar surveys the conceptual and technical developments in the past decade to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of design, science and technology. We will study how new design and fabrication methods shape what we eat, what we wear, how we form opinions and express ourselves. The goal will be to develop new literacies of design that will help us acclimate better to the realities of the century as creative and critical citizens who can shape its products and values. DSGN 520: Pixel to Print Kayla Romberger Monday, Wednesday, 10am-1pm ONLINE This studio course introduces students to the world of print media and circulation through techniques in Risograph (a high-speed digital printing system developed in Japan in the 1980s), xerography, and letterpress, focusing particularly on the format of posters and artists' ephemera. Beginning with the Adobe Creative Suite, students will create their own broadsides, flyers, announcement cards, and print- based installations throughout the course, exploring ways in which artists and designers make use of the printed form to disseminate information; initiate happenings; advertise events; or foment change. Students will learn about some of the most significant producers working within this realm--from Dada to punk bands in the '70s to contemporary hybrid publishing collectives--and develop skills in page layout, typography, and design; digital to analog pre-press and post-print production methods; and mechanized and hand-pulled press operations. The course includes a field trip to NYC. FNAR 523: DRAWING I Section 401 – Alexis Granwell – Tuesday and Thursday: 5pm-8pm Section 402 – Roderick Jones – Monday and Wednesday: 2pm-5pm ONLINE This course is designed to develop visual awareness and perceptual acuity through the process of drawing. Students learn to sharpen perceptual skills through observational drawing, and to explore the expressive potential of drawing. A variety of problems and media will be presented in order to familiarize students with various methods of working and ways of communicating ideas visually. Subject matter will include object study, still life, interior and exterior space, self-portrait and the figure. Different techniques and materials (charcoal, graphite, ink, collage) are explored in order to understand the relationship between means, material and concept. Critical thinking skills are developed through frequent class critiques and through the presentation of and research into historical and contemporary precedent in drawing. If you need assistance registering for a closed section, please email the department at fnarug@design.upenn.edu Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 FNAR 524: Drawing Investigations Ivanco Talevski Monday and Wednesday, 10am-1pm ONLINE Drawing is a fundamental means of visualization and a hub for thinking, constructing, and engaging in a wide variety of creative activities and problem-solving. This studio class explores drawing in both its traditional and contemporary forms. The projects are designed to help students in all disciplines find ways express and clarify their ideas through the process of drawing. The semester begins with the refinement of perceptual skills acquired in Drawing I, while encouraging experimentation through the introduction of color, abstract agendas, conceptual problem solving, and collaborative exercises, as well as new materials, techniques and large format drawings. Particular attention is given to ways to conduct visual research in the development of personal imagery. Assignments are thematic or conceptually based with ample opportunity for individual approaches to media, subject, scale and process. The goal is to strengthen facility, develop clarity in intent and expand expression. Attention is paid to the development of perceptual sensitivity, methods of image construction, and the processes of synthesis and transformation in order to communicate ideas through visual means. Recommended for students in all areas. FNAR 531: Painting Practices Anthony Bowers Monday and Wednesday, 5pm-8pm ONLINE Painting practices is an introduction to the methods and materials of oil painting. This course begins with an investigation of color and color relationships. The beginning of the semester will cover technical issues and develop the student's ability to create a convincing sense of form in space using mass, color, light and composition. The majority of work is from direct observation including object study, still life, landscape, interior and exterior space and the self-portrait. Class problems advance sequentially with attention paid to perceptual clarity, the selection and development of imagery, the process of synthesis and translation, color, structure and composition, content and personal expression. Students will become familiar with contemporary and art historical precedent in order to familiarize them with the history of visual ideas and find appropriate solutions to their painting problems. FNAR 540: Mystics and Visionaries Jackie Tileston Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30pm-4:30pm ONLINE As a pioneer of abstraction in the early 1900's, Hilma Af Klint channeled a complex and highly original body of abstract symbolic work in secrecy. Using the upcoming Hilma Af Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim as a focus and departure point, this course will explore the ways in which artists have accessed alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and embodying non-visible realities as a source for their work. Accessing spiritual realms has been the subject of early European Modernisms investigations into Theosophy and Anthroposophy, as well as the primary intention of Tibetan Thangkas and Indian Tantra paintings. Postmodernism's crisis of belief and skepticism generated a cultural situation wherein the subject of spirituality was marginalized, ridiculed as anti- intellectual, and in disgrace. The Hilma Af Klint exhibition and surge of interest in her work signifies a new moment, where questions about consciousness and the nature of reality are being addressed with renewed vigor. How do we create space in a technology driven world for experiences that attempt to align the viewer/maker with the contemplative realm, heightened states of consciousness, or transcendence? We will examine a wide field of artists in an attempt to understand the possibilities of the "spiritual" in art and contemporary culture. This seminar will engage in readings, lectures, discussions, projects, and field trips. This course is appropriate for both grad and undergrad, art majors and non-majors alike. FNAR 541: Hand-Drawn Computer Animation Joshua Mosley Tuesday and Thursday, 9am-12pm ONLINE Using software tools designed for hand-drawn animation, students will develop animation skills applicable to all forms of animation. In this course students will learn to draw with a sense of urgency and purpose as they represent motion and drama in a series of frames. Through careful study of natural movements, precedents in the history of animation, and through the completion of a series of Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 FNAR 608: Portrait as Ethnography Jenny Chio Thursday, 3:30pm-6:30pm ONLINE When cameras are ubiquitous and millions of people post pictures of themselves online, what counts as a portrait today? In an age of selfies, surveillance, biometric "smart" identity cards, and movements like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and indigenous decolonization, can the portrait do a different kind of representational work? How do visual portraits (whether photographic, painted, drawn, or sculpted) operate differently from textual portraits (such as biographies, life histories, or profiles)? This seminar aims to resituate and rethink the portrait in ethnography, and by extension, the practice of portraiture as an ethnographic method, by exploring portraiture as a culturally conditioned, socially resonant form of knowledge production. All portraits, even self-portraits, rely upon a relationship: between the portrayed and the portrayer, the sitter and the artist, the interlocutor and the ethnographer. We will interrogate how portraits have shaped identity politics, and how portraiture, as a scholarly and artistic act, can radically re-theorize forms of social engagement. Drawing on multimodal and decolonial turns in anthropology, seminar participants will produce portraits of their own, using whatever medium/media might be best suited for their interpretive work. FNAR 616: Art and Social Work Aaron Levy, Toojo Ghose Wednesday, 9am-12pm ONLINE How can the arts help us build a more just society? How can the arts transform social structures and systems? Public health crises involving clean water (Flint), police violence (Baltimore), and a lack of economic and educational opportunity following reentry (Philadelphia) make legible the need for a new visual language that critiques these conditions and challenges entrenched structural inequalities. We will engage the work of creative practitioners who are mapping new relationships between art and social justice and directly impacting individual and communal well-being. In so doing, the course seeks to challenge traditional constructions of public health, which often isolate individual histories from their social life and their relation to families, communities, and geographies. Readings will build upon disciplinary perspectives in the arts, humanities, and social policy. Requirements include weekly readings, class participation, and a collaborative final project. The course will meet in the Health Ecologies Lab at Slought Foundation, an arts organization on campus. FNAR 622: Big Pictures: Mural Arts Jane Golden, Shira Walinsky Monday, Wednesday 2pm-5pm ONLINE The history and practice of the contemporary mural movement couples step by step analysis of the process of designing with painting a mural. In addition students will learn to see mural art as a tool for social change. This course combines theory with practice. Students will design and paint a large outdoor mural in West Philadelphia in collaboration with Philadelphia high school students and community groups. The class is co-taught by Jane Golden, director of the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia, and Shira Walinsky, a mural arts painter and founder of Southeast by Southeast project, a community center for Burmese refugees in South Philadelphia. DSGN 634: Art of the Web Nika Simovich Fisher Monday, Wednesday, 6:00pm-9:00pm Art of the Web: Interactive concepts for art and design is a first step in learning how to create, analyze and discuss interactive content, as a visual creator. It is an exploration of the culture of the internet, the ideas behind its quirks, the dreams and freedoms it encapsulates, and the creative power it gives us. Students will be assigned projects that will challenge their current understanding of the web, and the ways it shapes human connectivity and interaction. Upon completion of this course, students will possess a working knowledge how to organize and design websites and learn to critique web-content including navigation, UX design and information architecture. The course will require analytical conceptual skills and foster creative thinking. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 DSGN 635: 3-D Computer Modeling Scott White Monday, Wednesday 10am-1pm ONLINE Students will develop a comprehensive knowledge of how virtual worlds are constructed using contemporary computer graphics technique with a fine arts perspective. The course will offer the opportunity to explore the construction, texturing, and rendering of forms, environments, and mechanisms while conforming to modeling specifications required for animation, real-time simulations or gaming environments, and rapid prototyping. DSGN 636: Art, Design & Digital Culture Section 401 – Jacob Rivkin – Monday, Wednesday 10am-1pm Section 402 – Jacob Rivkin – Monday, Wednesday 2pm-5pm Section 403 – Christopher Lawrence – Monday, Wednesday 5pm-8pm Section 405 – Avery Lawrence – Tuesday, Thursday 3:00pm-6:00pm Section 406 – Christopher Lawrence – Tuesday, Thursday 5pm-8pm This course is an introduction to the fundamental perception, representation, aesthetics, and design that shape today's visual culture. It addresses the way artists and designers create images; design with analog and digital tools; communicate, exchange, and express meaning over a broad range of media; and find their voices within the fabric of contemporary art, design, and visual culture. Emphasis is placed on building an extended form of visual literacy by studying and making images using a variety of representation techniques; learning to organize and structure two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, and designing with time-based and procedural media. Students learn to develop an individual style of idea-generation, experimentation, iteration, and critique as part of their creative and critical responses to visual culture. If you need registering for a closed section, please email the department at fnarug@design.upenn.edu DSGN 637: Information Design & Visualization Mahir Yavuz Tuesday, 4:30pm-8:30pm ONLINE Information design and visualization is an introductory course that explores the structure of information (text, numbers, images, sounds, video, etc.) and presents strategies for designing effective visual communication appropriate for various users and audiences. The course seeks to articulate a vocabulary of information visualization and find new design forms for an increasingly complex culture. FNAR 640: Digital Photography Section 401 – Sarah Stolfa – Monday 10am-1pm Section 402 – Demetrius Oliver – Monday 2pm-5pm Section 403 – Demetrius Oliver – Monday 5pm-8pm Section 404 – Heather Phillips – Tuesday 10am-1pm Section 405 – Artie Vierkant – Tuesday 2pm-5pm Section 406 – Gabe Martinez – Thursday 10am-1pm Section 408 – Jamie Diamond, Theo Mullen – Wednesday 2pm-5pm Section 409 – Karen Rodewald – Wednesday 5pm-8pm Section 410 – Brent Wahl – Wednesday 10am-1pm This class offers an in-depth technical and conceptual foundation in digital imagery and the opportunity to explore the creative, expressive possibilities of photography. Students will become proficient with the basic use of the camera, techniques of digital capture, color management and color correction. They will also develop competency in scanning, retouching, printing and a variety of manipulation techniques in Photoshop. Through weekly lectures and critiques, students will become familiar with some of the most critical issues of representation, consider examples from photo history, and analyze the impact of new technologies and social media. With an emphasis on structured shooting assignments, students are encouraged to experiment, expand their visual vocabulary while refining their technical skills. No previous experience is necessary. Although it is beneficial for students to have their own Digital SLR camera, registered students may reserve and checkout Digital SLR cameras and other high-end equipment from the department. If you need assistance registering for a closed section, please email the department at fnarug@design.upenn.edu Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 FNAR 642: Digital Photography II Brent Wahl Thursday, 2pm-5pm ONLINE In this course students will continue to develop conceptual, technical, aesthetic and formal strategies in digital photography, expanding their artistic process while refining their critical approach to researched subject matter. The class will be driven initially by a series of assignments formulated to further expose students to broad possibilities related to the medium and then they will be guided towards the evolution of a personalized body of work that is culturally, theoretically and historically informed. We will be examining key issues surrounding the digital image in contemporary society, led through a combination of class lectures, readings, group discussions, film screenings, gallery visits and class critiques. Students will further their knowledge of image control and manipulation, retouching and collage, advanced color management; become familiar with high-end camera and lighting equipment and develop professional printing skills. In addition to learning these advanced imaging practices, this course will also emphasize an investigation of critical thought surrounding contemporary visual culture and the role of digital media in the creation of art. DSGN 643: Language of Design Sharka Hyland Wednesday, 12pm-4pm ONLINE The course will explore the changing relationship during the modern era between design (structure, model, plan of a work of art) and language (metaphor for a system of communication; speech, writing, literature). Our readings and visual presentations will focus on topics in the decorative arts, painting, architecture, typography and visual communication. We will focus on primary sources in order to situate our inquiry in a larger historical context. The discussion will center on claims about the inherent meaning of forms, discuss different roles for design as an ideological statement, as an agent of societal change, and as an idiosyncratic expression. Topics will also include the search for a universal visual language, attempts at bridging the perceived gap between spoken and written language, and the impact of visual form on the meaning of literary texts (particularly when the author has been involved). Students can suggest additional topics related to their field of study. DSGN 645: Book & Publication Design Sharka Hyland Monday, 5pm-9pm ONLINE Book and Publication Design will focus on the theory and professional practice of designing multi-page publications. Students will analyze formal structures of different types of books-literature and poetry, fiction and non-fiction compilations, illustrated volumes such as art catalogues, monographs and textbooks, and serial editions-discussing both traditional and experimental approaches. The format of the course will be split between theoretical and historical evaluations of book formats by drawing on the Van Pelt Rare Book Collection-and studio time where students will design books with attention to the format's conceptual relationship to the material at hand with a focus on typography and page layout, as well as on understanding production methods of printing and binding. In addition to the conventions of page layout students will examine paratextual elements (title page, practices of pagination and other internal structuring, content lists and indexes, colophons, notes and marginalia, end-leaves, binding, etc.). DSGN 646: Advanced 3D Modeling Scott White Friday, 10:00am-1:00pm ONLINE Advanced 3-D Modeling will give students the opportunity to refine skills in modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering with an emphasis on the evolution of ideas through constant revision based on class critique. Students will use a variety of industry standard software packages, including, but not limited to Maya and Mudbox to compose complex environments. Projects are designed to give students the opportunity to work with original content within a simulated production environment. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 publicly encountered, forming de facto frameworks for private and public life. Our coursework foregrounds interpretation and dissemination through multiple media – everything from signage and monuments to websites and exhibits. It is not, however, an introduction to the technical deployment of those media but a chance to reflect critically on their respective strengths and weaknesses in different contexts. In addition to discussing readings in history, historic preservation, sociology, anthropology, geography, and public art, students will design and conduct original research projects involving: • interviews with Philadelphians from diverse backgrounds about their experiences of various urban landscapes; • archival research involving architecture, city and regional planning, urban infrastructure, civic culture, and historical commemoration; and conceptual design of monuments, installations, public events, and other forms of commemoration. • Field trips will ground class discussions in the present-day fabric of Philadelphia while guest speakers will acquaint us with a variety of institutional and disciplinary perspectives. HSPV 551-001: Building Pathology Michael Henry Friday 2:00 – 5:00 HYBRID This course addresses the subject of deterioration of buildings, their materials, assemblies and systems, with the emphasis on the technical aspects of the mechanisms of deterioration and their enabling factors, material durability and longevity of assemblies. Details of construction and assemblies are analyzed relative to functional and performance characteristics. Lectures cover: concepts in durability; climate; psychrometric, soils & hydrologic; conditions; physics of moisture in buildings; enclosure, wall and roof systems; structural systems; and building services systems with attention to performance, deterioration, and approaches to evaluation of remedial interventions. The class is 100% synchronous so that group problem solving and exercises may be done. Lecture slides will be posted before class. The lecture slides are text and content rich so a video narrative is not necessary, this is time efficient for the students. In class, we review the slides with Q&A, then proceed to discussions and exercises and group progress on the final assignment. A virtual site visit may be undertaken as part of the final assignment. HSPV 555-001: Conservation Science George Wheeler Monday, 2:00 – 5:00 HYBRID (ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS/IN-PERSON LABS) Conservation Science provides a fundamental understanding of architectural materials with respect to their composition, properties and performance and serves as the foundation for subsequent conservation courses such as HSPV738 – Wood, HSPV739 – Masonry, and HSPV740 – Architectural Surface Finishes, as well as, related courses such as HSPV551 – Building Pathology and HSPV552 – Building Diagnostics and Monitoring. Beginning with a general discussion of mechanical properties such as strength, modulus, toughness, creep and fatigue of all architectural materials, the course moves to porous building materials such as stone, brick, terra cotta, mud brick, and concrete, cast stone and mortar and focuses on the evaluation of their properties and their identification through an exploration of composition and texture in hand specimen and polarizing light microscopy. Rounding out the discussion of inorganic architectural materials is the examination of the unique set of properties of metals including their identification using methods of elemental analysis. The course then shifts to the important organic architectural materials such as wood and finishes and begins with an overview of basic organic chemistry and follows with a more in-depth exploration of the properties and performance of wood, adhesives and clear finishes for wood, the chemistry of pigments and paint media, and, the identification pigments, paint media and clear finishes using several analytical methods. Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 HSPV 620-401: Remembering Epidemics Cross Listed with LARP 771-401 & HSOC 443-401 Aaron Wunsch & David Barnes Tuesday, 1:30 – 4:30 HYBRID (ONLINE/IN-PERSON SITE VISITS) This seminar challenges students to encounter and interpret the city around them in unconventional ways. During a deadly pandemic that has profoundly disrupted all aspects of society, just as the question of public commemoration has vigorously and sometimes violently re-entered our country’s public discourse, one question has remained surprisingly neglected: How do we remember epidemics? This course confronts this question through an analysis of traumatic epidemics in Philadelphia’s history, and of the broader landscape of public memory. We devote special attention to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, but we also consider the 1918-1919 influenza, AIDS, and COVID-19, among others. Students conduct archival, documentary, site-based, and other kinds of research in the process of analyzing the origins, course, and consequences of epidemics, as well as the nature of public commemoration. HSPV 625-001: Preservation Economics Donovan Rypkema Tuesday, 9:00am – 12:00pm ONLINE The primary objective is to prepare the student, as a practicing preservationist, to understand the language of the development community, to make the case through feasibility analysis why a preservation project should be undertaken, and to be able to quantify the need for public/non-profit intervention in the development process. A second objective is to acquaint the student with measurements of the economic impact of historic preservation and to critically evaluate "economic hardship" claims made to regulatory bodies by private owners. HSPV 638-401: Photography & The City Cross Listed CPLN 687-401 Francesca Ammon Wednesday, 9:00am – 12:00pm ONLINE This seminar explores the intersecting social and cultural histories of photography and the urban and suburban built environment. No prior background in photography is necessary. Since its inception in 1839, photography has provided a critical means for representing urban space. The medium has helped to celebrate the great structures of the industrial city, reform cities from the Progressive Era through urban renewal, critique expanding postwar suburbs, and document change in the post-industrial and post-disaster city. In all of these ways, the photograph has been both a reflection of the city and an agent of its transformation. Our subjects each week will include individual images and larger photographic archives. We will discuss not only the creation of these images, but also their application in design and planning discourse. Although technical training in photography is not expected, students will have a chance to construct a photo-essay of their own. Through our investigations, we will collectively explore how photography's dual documentary and aesthetic properties have shaped the city—physically, socially, and culturally. HSPV 705-001: Advanced Studio: Reckoning with Civil Rights Sites Randall Mason & Brent Leggs Wednesday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm HYRBRID (ONLINE/IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS) Our country is in the throes of a deep reckoning with racial injustice, economic precarity, legacies of discrimination and violence, and other civil rights issues. This advanced research course explores the presence of these civil rights issues, their heritage and opportunities for reckoning at the scale of the site and the landscape. How should sites of civil rights struggles, triumphs and other legacies be recognized, interpreted, preserved, managed and otherwise made visible? The course will draw on several fields, including history, preservation, management, and design. It will balance lecture/seminar sessions (to outline and examine issues), discussions with invited guests, and practical workshops (exploring professional tools for designing/sustaining/preserving the sites themselves). The workshops will also create a space to collaborate on projects in Alabama and Philadelphia: the Armstrong School, an early 20th-century building on the grounds of a Baptist church in Macon County, Alabama, Weitzman Spring 2021 Elective Courses as of 12/7/20 working with colleagues at Tuskegee University’s Department of Architecture; and Marian Anderson House an established heritage site in Center City Philadelphia facing a number of preservation, management challenges. Individual student projects could be related to the Armstrong School or Marian Anderson House. Enrollment in the course will be strictly limited, and we welcome students from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and department – apply with a short statement of intent to rfmason@design.upenn.edu. HSPV 738-301: Conservation Seminar: Wood Andrew Fearon Tuesday, 6:00pm - 9:00pm HYBRID (ONLINE/IN-PERSON LABS) Prior to the twentieth century, most structures found in the built environment relied upon wood as a primary material for both structural members and decorative features. An understanding of the physical properties as well as the historic application of this organic material provides the basis for formulating solutions for a wide spectrum of conversation issues. As the scope of preserving wooden structures and wooden architectural elements is continually broadened, new methods and technology available to the conservator together allow for an evolving program - one that is dependent upon both consistent review of treatments and more in- depth study of craft traditions. This course seeks to illustrate and address material problems typically encountered by stewards of wooden cultural heritage - among them structural assessment, bio-deterioration, stabilization and replication techniques. Through a series of lectures and hands-on workshops given by representative professionals from the fields of wood science, conservation, entomology, engineering, and archaeology, theoretical and practical approaches to retaining wooden materials will be examined with the goal to inform the decision-making process of future practicing professionals. HSPV 594-401 / LAW 594: Critical Multimodal Qualitative Research Across the Professions Regina Austin (Law) and the Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Experimental Ethnography Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00pm-4:20pm ONLINE This course is designed to introduce professional school students to critical, multimodal, and experimental ethnographic qualitative research. The course, which includes both theoretical and applied components, is divided into five modules. The first module explores the theory of critical ethnographic qualitative research and the ethical issues that arise when undertaking collaborative research around the “everyday culture” of communities and institutions with which practitioners in the students’ chosen areas of study typically interact. The second module allows students to analyze qualitative research in professional fields of study and engage in dialogue with Penn faculty whose qualitative research addresses significant issues of importance to practitioners in law, business, education, social policy, medicine, design, and planning. The third module is devoted to qualitative data collection methods (participant observation, oral histories, and in-depth interviews) and the modes and tools used in collecting qualitative data and reporting results, with an emphasis on multimodal methods. The final module considers in greater depth the role of aesthetics, advocacy, and activism in utilizing multimodal approaches for sharing research findings with academics, collaborators, fellow professionals, and the general population. At the end of the course, students should have achieved the following: acquired an in-depth understanding of the theory of critical ethnographic qualitative research; developed a working knowledge of the ethical obligations and professional norms associated with critical ethnographic qualitative research; gained familiarity with multimodal means of data collection and dissemination of research results, such as performance, sound, photography, film, and video; and engaged with scholars whose work involves critical multimodal qualitative research that can be usefully applied to academically-based, community-engaged research in areas of professional practice.