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*Project for Public Spaces  [[http://www.pps.org/issue_papers/safety_security.html]]
 
*Project for Public Spaces  [[http://www.pps.org/issue_papers/safety_security.html]]
 
* Krzysztof Wodiczko [[http://web.mit.edu/vap/people/faculty/faculty_wodiczko.html]]
 
* Krzysztof Wodiczko [[http://web.mit.edu/vap/people/faculty/faculty_wodiczko.html]]
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* Ivan Mestrovic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87]]
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* Fountain of the Great Lakes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_the_Great_Lakes]] [[http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/history/art/f_1.html]]
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* Agora, Magdalena Abakanowicz [[http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1XZN]]
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* Buckingham Fountain [[http://www.aviewoncities.com/chicago/buckinghamfountain.htm]]

Revision as of 19:03, 29 January 2008

Week 1 (Jan. 29)

introduction to the class, self-guided tour, discussion of lakefront public spaces and public art.

What is public art?

Introduction to mind map as a way to generate and organize concepts.

Scott McCloud’s categorization of work and how it can proceed from one of four orientations/camps (formal, narrative, classical, iconoclastic)

Visitor: Joe Leamanczyk, Project Manager, Office of Campus Environment

Discussion of Asn. 1.


Reading for next week:

Readings can be found in: All:

Deutsche, Rosalyn. excerpt from Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics; 3-48

Eliade, Mircea. Excerpt from The Sacred and the Profane; undergrads, pp 20-29, grads 20-65

Grads:

Lebfevre, Henri. The Social Production of Space [[1]]

critique of: [[2]]


Resources:

  • Homeless.org [[3]][[4]]
  • Lefebvre, about: [[5]]
  • Project for Public Spaces [[6]]
  • Krzysztof Wodiczko [[7]]
  • Ivan Mestrovic [[8]]
  • Fountain of the Great Lakes [[9]] [[10]]
  • Agora, Magdalena Abakanowicz [[11]]
  • Buckingham Fountain [[12]]