Ecology of Space

Course Schedule

• NYU Academic Calendar
• Spring 2014 Class Dates

This 12 week class will meet on Monday's 3:20pm - 6:15pm

Please Note: Course schedule subject to change.

Week 1:

• Introductions
• Class Overview
• Class Exercise: Look, I made this for you...
• Readings for next week:
  • Alfred North Whitehead - selections from Process and Reality,
  • Lucretius - selections from On the Nature of Things: Infinite Worlds, Beginnings of Civilization
  • Hegel - 'Lordship and Bondage' from Phenomenology of the Spirit
  • Pratityasamutpada, Buddhist Publication Society - Introduction

Week 2:

• Discussion: Conceptions of Space, Pre-Modernity; History of Cartography/Geography, Materialsm, Process Theory, Dialectics, and Buddhism
• Readings for next week:
  • Henri Lefebvre - Selections from The Production of Space
  • Guy Debord - Theory of the Derive, Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography
  • J. V. Stalin - Dialectical and Historical Materialsm
• Discuss: Weekly Journal / Sketchbooks
• First Experiment: Psychogeographical Map

Week 3:

• Discussion: Post War France - Reconfiguring and Questioning Space
• Readings for next week:
• Trevor Paglan's Experimental Geogrpahy Essay
• Critical Spatial Practice - Blog
• Critical Spatial Practice - Jane Rendell Essay
• The Interventionists - Essays by Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholette

Week 4:

• Discussion: F#@K The Gallery: Critical Spatial Practice / Toward a New Public Art
• Informal Critique: Psychogeographical Map
• Readings for next week:
• Brett Bloom - Radical Space for Art in a Time of Forced Privatization and Market Dominance

Week 5:

• Discussion: The Personal is Political: Bodies and Power (queer space, black space, family, religion, intimacy)
• Field Trip: Moving Walls 22 / Watching You, Watching Me: Open Society Foundations
• Second Experiment: Sound Map of Intimate or 'Othered' Space
• Readings for next week:
• Michel Foucault - Of Other Spaces
• Richard Ross Photography - Architecture of Authority

Week 6:

• Discussion: Tactical + Locative Media, Guest Speaker: Josh Begley (artist)
• Informal Critique: Sound Maps

Week 7:

• Discussion: Virtual Space and Human Interaction,
• Third Assignment: 'Virtual' Occupation

Week 8:

• Guest Lecture: Jacob Kang Brown (sociologist)
• Informal Critique: Virtual Occupation

Week 9:

• Discussion: Artists in the Urban Environment, Urban Exploration and Movement, Gentrification
• Discussion: Final Project Proposals

Week 10:

• Discussion: Land Art and 'The Environment'
• Discussion: Final Project Status Updates

Week 11:

• Final project in class workshop

Week 12:

• Final Project Critiques - w/ Guests