Course Info: HACU-0263
| Course | HACU-0263 Research As Creative Practice |
| Long Title | Research as Creative Practice: Advanced Projects Seminar |
| Term | 2025S |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 107 on W from 1:00-3:50 |
| Faculty | Jennifer Bajorek |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 3 |
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| Additional Info | This course can be used to fulfill the Division II Project requirement Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | We will approach research as the inherently creative practice
that it is, while also querying the boundaries between theory and
practice, thought and creation, study and work. Rather than
conceptualizing and conducting research as a linear process that
goes from point A to B, we will explore research methods
that invite or require us to get lost, embrace constraint, and
grapple with the desires and impulses of others. In the first
part of our weekly sessions, we will apprentice ourselves to a
range of well-known experimental methods centering contingency
(flanerie, everyday tactics, spatial practice research),
constraint (OuLiPo, automatic writing, zaoum and cubo-futurism),
and collaboration (participant observation, the interview, art as
social practice). In the second part, students will work on, and
workshop, their own independent research projects. This course is
designed for students working on Division II supported projects
and in the first semester of Division III. Keywords:Research Methods, Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies |