DESMA 22

Main Course

Fabrication and Materials

Description

Studio, six hours; outside study, six hours. Study combines aspects of industrial design, sculpture, engineering, fabrication, traditional crafts, and other practices to give students a survey of many different ways of making. Through assignments and projects investigating the affordances of materials and the potentials of fabrication, students engage with concepts of extraction, resources, supply chains, measurement, scale, pattern, repetition, translation, 3D modeling, and meaning making. Students work to produce their own relationship to materials and physical making while forming a personal aesthetic language. Concept, process, and results of assignments are documented and archived to demonstrate progress. Students learn tools, techniques, software, fabricate objects, and discuss their work. P/NP or letter grading.