Winter 2004
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Special Section:
Street as Method
Teaching documentary and observation techniques in their coursework, SIX professors exhibit their assignments and their students' work.
| Kathleen
Fraser
A course assignment from Kathleen Fraser's California College of the Arts seminar: "Unwriting Writing Class" |
examples of student work |
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Take a walk in the city...somewhere in your neighborhood or somewhere
unfamiliar.
Find a "site" (that you might call a "monument" or a related name). Analyze the techniques used to produce this site..its function and relation to the landscape around it. Take your notebook with you and jot down anything that you see, hear, smell... Sit in one place, such as a cafe or park bench, after your walk, and write down anything else you remember or that occurs to you in relation to what you have seen... |
solidad
decosta
16th Street Mission, 12:59 PM Valencia Street Poem Youmna
Chlala
Romney
Steele
Aimee Le
Duc
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| Daniele
Marx
a report on class assignment with Brazilian Artist Ricardo Basbaum. |
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| This work
that is called An almost instrument experience (Uma experiência
de
quase instrumento) was developed during a course with the Brazilian
artist
Ricardo Basbaum.
The name of this course was "Re-Projecting Porto Alegre" It required an artist to carry .... out actions in different points of the city. My part was
to make a report of this experience, using videos, photos and text...
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| Carolyn
Whitzman
Writes about how her students handled their assignment: "Reading the City." |
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| ...An introductory assignment in ‘reading the city’ was intended to unpack the notion of planner as expert, by asking students to analyse a favourite place in Melbourne, based on their own senses and memories. They were asked: “What hints are there of its history? Are there signs of upward mobility, or of decline? Is it becoming more of a ‘global’ place, and if so, how”? Students responded with enthusiasm, imagination, and insight to this assignment. | a
display of a "reading the city"
course project by Mélanie Thomas The Colonisation of Gardiner’s Creek - situated in Boroondara, Melbourne, Australia |
| Lisa
Hoffman
Hoffman evaluates the interaction of fieldwork and in-class readings. |
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| Thinking
Public...
All students in the introductory course Urban Society and Culture are required to do a fieldwork project in a public urban space, which could be, for example, a park, a plaza, a public market, or a shopping area. In the write-up, students must explain both what is urban and what is public about their chosen setting and experience. The objective is to get students to apply class readings and theoretical ideas to ethnographically collected data. |
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| Blagovesta
Momchedjikova
Momchedjikova opens her NYU's Tisch School of the Arts course syllabus : "Writing the Essay: Public and Private Spaces" |
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| We are about to examine public places in the city: how do these places reflect the ways in which we think, imagine, and spectate the city? How do we inhabit these public places with our private desires, needs, fears? Select a particular architectural site (a street, a street corner, a square, a park, a bridge, a ruin, a cemetery, a building, etc.) in New York City: a site you can visit more than once, take pictures of, explore through other people’s visits and writings.... | Alan
Denton
Astor Place: Cubed Evan Moore
Jenna Noel
Jillian
Riley
Kimberly
Chalmers
Mary Kate
Rix
Matthew de
Mayo
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| Mark
A. Nowak
...sent the students of his photo-documentary class to the streets of the twin cities. |
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