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1 FIELD Site-in-Process Collaborative Studios| Exhibition | Expanded Field Pedagogy 2 3 FIELD Site-in-Process Field / Site-in-Process is a collaborative studio, exhibition, and research within Expanded Field practices. Organized by Mrinalini Aggarwal, AICAD Fellow in Fine Arts, and co-hosted by Ane Gonzalez Lara, Assistant Professor in Architecture, and Swati Piparsania, AICAD Fellow in Design, this series offers students, faculty and interdisciplinary practitioners DeKalb Gallery shared spaces for experimentation and process- based inquiry. Addressing a variety of themes at the Pratt Institute intersections of ecology, politics, technology, objects, environments and the body, the exhibition features Nov 20-27, 2019 process collaborations between students and faculty across 9 departments at Pratt and a host of invited artists, musicians, designers, educators and critical researchers. This program is part of an experimental Opening Reception and participatory research that aims to foster new forms of cross-pollinating pedagogy at Pratt. Thursday, Nov 21 5-7pm 4 5 Monday Wednesday Wednesday 10am-1:30pm 9-12pm Performing Political Education Edible Projects: Natalia Ivanova Mount & Marshall Trammell Mold Making Candies & Jellies Amanda Huynh & Naomi Safran Hon 1:30-4:30pm In Relationship with Technology, Time, Nature Jean Shin & Natalie Moore 5-8pm Tuesday Design History of Objects 9:30am-5:30pm Erica Morawski & Swati Piparsania Explore, Shift, Shape: Collaborative Drawing Machines as Predictors: SCHEDULE Discerning Actions Rosemarie Fiore Public event at 5pm at the DeKalb Lawns Thursday WORKSHOP 1:30-3:30pm Unconference: Visualizing and Reframing Equitable Frameworks DESCRIPTIONS Judit Török & Rhonda Schaller 5-7pm Opening Reception: Recovering Recipes Dawn Weleski & Kate O’ Shea Free and Open to the Public Sunday 5-8pm Alien: Extraterrestrial Affairs Ana Maria Farina Free and Open to the Public 6 7 Performing Political Education In Relationship with Technology, Time and Nature Wednesday, November 20, 10am-1:30pm Wednesday, November 20, 1:30pm-4:30pm Natalia Mount, ProArts Gallery & COMMONS Jean Shin, Adjunct Professor, CCE, Fine Arts Marshall Trammell, Music Research Strategies Natalie Moore, Assistant Chair of Foundation This workshop invites attendees to critique Capitalism and its machinations, through Digital detox challenge: can you go unplugged for a full day? This workshop explores the re-design of an array of Underground Railroad quilt block codes, as an artist- our complex relationship to technology, time, and nature. Artists’ presentations will driven reimagining of navigating the global economy. Participants will leave with an focus on site ideas, material, research process and collaborations. With ever-growing understanding of how we have gotten to the current predicament and how to move e-waste and accumulation of obsolete technology, how can we continue to innovate towards artistic and creative practices that build Solidarity, Cooperation, Mutualism, and work in ways that are sustainable and accountable? How can we harness the Equity, Participatory Democracy, Sustainability, and Pluralism. benefits of technology as a useful tool while restoring and reclaiming what it has taken from our lives, workplace, and the environment? How has technology changed the The workshop will include an introduction to the Solidarity Economics (SE) framework way we communicate, connect with people, and how we choose to spend our time? of concepts, and an introduction to the feminist, Chicana scholar Chela Sandoval’s “Five Participants will break up in small groups to unpack the realities and challenges we Technologies,” from her seminal book “Methodologies of the Oppressed.” During the face in the digital age and climate crisis. We’ll also exchange ideas about how we can workshop, we will also address the polemics of the art space and new organizational individually and collective navigate these pressing demands for our attention on our formations, such as the commons. Lastly, participants will collaborate on the drafting paths to building a better future. of a pledge letter, centering on the creation of common language and vocabulary that reflect the ethos of a new, creative economy. The themes of this workshop related to Jean Shin’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco opening in Feb 2020. **Donate your old mobile Participating Classes: phones and it’ll be incorporated into the artwork in progress. Drawing in the Expanded Field | Faculty - Mrinalini Aggarwal | Fine Arts Participating Classes: Big Impact | Faculty - Dina Weiss | Pratt Integrative Course Thesis | Faculty - Gaia Scagnetti | Communication Design MFA Integrated Practices | Faculty - Jean Shin | Fine Arts Professional Practice in Architecture | Faculty - Ane Gonzalez | Undergraduate Architecture Space / Form / Process | Faculty - Natalie Moore | Foundations 8 9 Design History of Objects Unconference: Visualizing and Reframing Wednesday, November 20, 5pm-8pm Equitable Frameworks Erica Morawski, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Design Thursday, November 21, 1:30pm-3:30pm Swati Piparsania, AICAD Post Graduate Teaching Fellow in Design Judit Török, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning This session brings together a design studio and history of design class to collaborate on Rhonda Schaller, Director of Career & Professional Development, Visiting Associate a number of activities that employ objects of memory. The activities invite participants Professor, Lecturer to engage in contemplative and inquisitive conversations about people’s history, the cultural lives of objects and the sustainability practices that surround them. Through Are you interested in engaging critically and creatively with pedagogical frameworks, direct engagement with objects that participants bring to the workshop, we will reflect but tired of the overused jargon that has come to define the field? Then this and interrogate through questions on the personal, intimate and social. collaboration is for you! At this unconference, we will be learning, exploring and exchanging ideas to create and deconstruct a variety of frameworks for teaching and learning. Moving away from dense academic definitions of inclusive pedagogies and Participating Classes: bullet points of empty strategies, participants in this ‘non-session interactive thing’ will Design for India | Faculty - Swati Piparsania | Industrial Design be collectively creating an agenda, sharing ideas, discovering possibilities, and learning History of Industrial Design | Faculty - Erica Morawski| History of Art and Design from each other. Wear your maker hats for this hands-on unconference to create physical models, prototypes, diagrams and research notes that re-think inclusive and equitable teaching frameworks in higher education. Free and open to the public 10 11 Opening Reception: Recovering Recipes Alien: Extraterrestrial Affairs Thursday, November 21, 5pm-7pm Sunday, November 24, 5pm-8pm Dawn Weleski Ana Maria Farina Artist and activist Dawn Weleski, in collaboration with Pratt Creative Writing students Inspired by the title that immigrants receive in America and the alien aspects of our from Gina Zucker’s “Community as Classroom” elective, Colgate University Social contemporary existence, this affair will take a sarcastic look at what being ‘alien’ means Practice students and printmaker Kate O’Shea, will present favorite childhood foods for artists and creators. Embrace your inner weird and wonderful, and join us for a night and recipes from local food service workers and Pratt students. Evoking memories of connection and commune to share a meal, talk, and play games together. We will take and networks of sensual relationship as medium, their collaboration will step outside over the FIELD and transform it into a whimsical alternative reality, where you will be of the gallery context to collectively process momentos of our shared experiences of able to play, chill, connect with others, and even collaborate in creation. This potluck is childhood and food. open to all - bring something to share that is a signifier of home and things far away. Field, Site-in-Process, Panel Discussion facilitated by Mrinalini Aggarwal Free and open to the public Recovering Recipes, Dawn Weleski in conversation with Gina Zucker, students from Pratt’s Creative Writing Program and Colgate University’s Social Practice class. Performance by Marshall Trammell. Tibetan Tsampa Demonstration by Dolma Lhamo, Staff at Cap’t Loui on Myrtle Avenue Free and open to the public Participating Classes: Community as Classroom | Faculty - Gina Zucker | Creative Writing Social Practice | Faculty - Dawn Weleski | Art & Art History, Colgate University 12 13 Edible Projects: Mold Making Candies and Jellies Explore, Shift, Shape: Monday, November 25, 9am-12pm Collaborative Drawing Machines as Predictors: Amanda Huynh, Assistant Professor, Industrial Design Discerning Action Naomi Safran Hon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fine Arts This workshop is devised as an interlude for two courses: an Industrial Design senior Tuesday, November 26, 9:30am-5:30pm studio and a Fine Arts technical mold-making course. Students will have an opportunity to play with mold making and casting edible materials such as jellies and candies, and Rosemarie Fiore come away with the workshop with some technical knowledge as well as designed hard candies. Students will hear from Amanda Huynh about her experiences in designing This workshop will explore the space where art and