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Roundtable Event: Studio as a Model for the Academic Course Wednesday, November 8, 6:00 to 8:00 PM. THE CAFÉ HIGGINS HALL SOUTH The evening event seeks to address pedagogical issues in the development of curriculum through faculty presentation and discussion on the critical topic of the relationship between the studio culture and academic courses. Three faculty members and an esteemed colleague from Parsons The New School of Design will present academic courses which were conceived and executed in response to a request from the studios for critical, philosophical and theoretical support. Ninety percent of the matriculating students at Pratt are enrolled in studio-based programs in fine arts, design and architecture. For the most part academic classes at Pratt continue to develop under a model that supports the separation of academic curriculum from studios based on the premise that the aims and goals of the liberal arts are distinct from those of studios in substantive ways. If, as John Dewey proposes in Education and Experience, the environment that the student brings to the classroom may be a guiding factor in the formation of curriculum, the questions to be addressed by the event fall into two categories: 1. To what extent will an affiliation with a studio benefit an academic course? 2. To what extent will it compromise the sanctity of the disciplines? Each presenter will introduce a curriculum brief followed by a general discussion period. The faculty presenters are: Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Associate Professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School of Design; Pratt faculty members: Amy Lesen, Assistant Professor of Biology; Alessandra Ponte, Professor of Architecture, History and Theory Coordinator; Jeffrey Hogrefe, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, English and Humanities. Coordinator: Architecture Writing Program: Language/Making; and Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Faculty Senate Academic Initiatives Committee. All faculty members, students and administrators are invited! Refreshments will be served About the presenters Miodrag Mitrasinovic is an architect, author and Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design. He holds an MArch in Architectural Design from the University of Belgrade, Serbia [1992], MArch II from the Berlage Institute, the Netherlands [1994], and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Florida at Gainesville, United States [1998]. His work was published in Metropolis, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Journal of Architecture and Building Science of the Architectural Institute of Japan and elsewhere. He is the author of ‘Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space’ (Ashgate 2006), and also co-editor of ‘Travel, Space, Architecture’ (with J. Traganou) forthcoming from Ashgate in 2007; both books are recipients of the prestigious Graham Foundation grant in 2004 and 2005 respectively. He has taught, lectured and reviewed student projects at a number of architecture and design schools including the University of Texas at Austin, Pratt Institute, The Berlage Institute, Kyoto University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Pennsylvania, University of Belgrade, and others. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Design at the University of Texas at Austin (1998-2005). |
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