Future: Society + Individual 2009

Instructor: Kevin Byrne, Science Baccalaureate Professor of Visualization
Enrollment: 18

Course Description: This interdisciplinary course explores changes and trends, along with technological and social forces that will shape society, your life, and work. We all need methods and skills to function in a world where the future seems to arrive faster and faster and consequences are more serious. Subjects covered will include our experience and framing of time (kairos and chronos), our pasts and our key milestones for paving future paths, understanding change, time systems and artifacts, scenario planning (there is no one future), and how artists, designers, and visualizers aspire to "inventing the future." The subjects discussed in class will become source matter to be applied to projects in your preferred media, whether electronic or canvas, 2D or 3D, science-baccalaureate or comic illustration. Tailored for juniors and seniors, this course introduces everyone to future-centered questions, theories and practice.

Capstone project featured: future of consumption, growth, and/or development

Project brief: Use methods and tools from the course to answer the question what is the future of consumption, growth, and/or development? There is no perfect path to the answer; in fact the topic need not result in answers, just explorations. The format is 8x8" or larger, text and graphics, x3; think triptych, presented as a series or syntactic sequence (modules need to "fit, build, or work together").

Note: Some students in the course elected to display three assignments other than the above capstone. A phrase evoking each pursuit is at the end of the filename stub.

Students:
Alex Crittenden
Anastasia Suchov
Andrew Schatz
Benjamin Kjos
Chris Collins
Courtney Celley
Ivona Sandru
Jamie McNeil
Lauryl Loberg
Lottie Anderson
Mat Ollig
Riley Farrell
Sarita Nevarez
Zamin Dharsi

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Alex Crittenden