Spring 2025
PLVS 3500 Advanced Research Seminar: Visual Culture
this course approaches research as a resource of imaginative and critical inquiry for artists and designers. we will embark on our own semester-long research project, directly related to our creative practices, that engages visual and narrative history, as well as critical theory. we will assemble and analyze historical and contemporary information, images, objects, materials, and data of all sorts to compile a collection or archive practical for our own use as both researchers and practitioners. the identification, collection, and critical examination of historical, critical, and theoretical sources will provide a deeper and broader context for our creative, visual, and material practice, and for the parsons thesis project, specifically.
course theme
a theme we'll be considering in this section is the relationship between
Play and Rigor. how can methods of play relate to learning, ideation, and progressive growth in the perceived constraints of academia? how might strategies of play help us develop our ideas? possible pathways may include learning and creative development, identity, personal development, collaborations, communities and partnerships. projects in this section may also use these terms as metaphors to be creatively interpreted and researched in other contexts.
syllabus
