CITY LAb: social aesthetics & the urban environment
"the city is the working studio and art is the catalyst for social and cultural intervention and participation.
This class investigates community resources, needs and areas for engagement,
including public space and housing, environment and consumerism."
offered through conceptual information arts in the SFSU art department,
through the generous participation of Darryl Smith, Laurie Lazer and the Luggage Store Gallery.
Instructor: Sarah Lewison
link to tenderloin national forest
Greenlab/Luggage Store Gallery Annex

Feb. 3:
Background  

 Introductions
Slide lecture: Earthworks and Sculpture in Extended Field
Visit 509 Cultural Center Annex
    :    The Tenderloin from Shaping San Francisco link
The Tenderloin
Affordable Housing in the Tenderloin
The Tenderloin in the 20th Century
Making the Tenderloin Livable
Rezoning Tenderloin Derails Grassroots Activism
From Southeast Asia to the Tenderloin
Feb.10:
Everyday + the City  

View: Hans Haacke Slides: links: 1 2 3 4
Discuss Reading: Flood by Haha
Presentations: Robby Herbst from the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Dialogues: Darryl Smith, director Luggage Store Gallery
Dan Kaye + Erica from Hands On Bay Area

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Read
Bonnie Sherk, Between the Diaspora and the Crinoline
Joseph Beuys, from Energy Plan for Western Man Beuys and Heinrich Boll, Manifesto of Free Intl University
Beuys interview: I Put Me on this Train
Feb. 17:
Exchange 

discussion Beuys and Sherk

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Read Grant Kester from Conversation Pieces
Introduction , and Duration & Critique in Works of Artists Placement Group & Harrison Studio
Feb. 24:
The Open Brief and the role of dialogue 

A brief lists the problems and goals that architects and artists are requested to address by the funding body or client.  These parameters confine, but also suggest design solutions.

Discuss APG, Lacey, Harrisons +Muf
 

Read
Claire Pentecost, What did you eat and when did you know it?
Browse Area Issue 2.
 Recommended: Neoliberal Appetites

 
Mar 3:
Nourishment 

Fritz Haeg, Nance Klehm, Edible + guerilla Landscaping, toxic remediation

Due Reports on visits and research

Meetings:refine proposals, discussion with Darryl (tentative)

 

 

 

Read:
Rosalyn Deutsche, Agoraphobia excerpts and Park Fiction
Mar 10:
Spaces and Publics

 

 

Field Trip: proposal think tank; research review

Temescal Amity Works
Read: Damon Rich, Community Centering
proposal think tank; first proposals for Darryl
Mar. 17:
Shelter, Housing, Homes  

Urban planning v. grassroots org
View film: This Black Soil

Meet with Juan Prada at Coalition on Homelessness
 

Read: Wochenklausur FAQ's and projects (select 3 to read about)

 
Mar. 24:
Wochenklauser's Sociopolitical Art 

draft proposals discussion

Discussion Wochenklausur.
work time

  Readshort excerpt Streetwork, and Adrift through the Circuits of Feminized Precarious Work: Precarias a la Deriva
Mar. 31:
Education and work 		 discussion, Streetwork, Center for Urban Pedagogy, methods of collaborative pedagogy and school as classroom
    ReadParadigms on the Move: The Groundworks Monongahela Conference and excerpts Belltown Paradise and In the Field over the vacation
 
April 15: Documentation and Artists books: on and off-web  

 ongoing class work:::::

to be decided weekly

 

Implement ongoing projects weekly. by May 1: finalize concluding projects

May 12 soft opening: Open house

May 19: Hard opening:

 

 

See bulletin board for updates:

additional fresh links: to be added

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LInks to Further Reading and site cruising