FAA 199 or 499: Conceptualization & Collab
Study with new FAA dean Jacob Pinholster! Students will learn generative practices for brainstorming, consensus development, arts entrepreneurship/creative enterprise, project management, collaborative leadership, and critical response/feedback. This interdisciplinary, project-based course is designed to develop students’ skills related to the conceptualization, execution, and evaluation of large-scale, collaborative, creative projects. Projects visualized, pitched, and in some cases fully produced by past groups include a touring children’s museum interactive experience, a festival of music and visual art collaborations, an immersive experience that took place in the mind of a dying composer, a role-playing game experience based on the lives of multiple generations of families on a spaceship, and an opera written for toy piano.
More information:
FAA 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar, Conceptualization & Collab
FAA 499: Special Topics, Conceptualization & Collab
FAA 495: Minoritarian Aesthetics Practicum
Register for 2025 Spring semester course: FAA 495: Minoritarian Aesthetics Practicum!
Students will approach critical theory, embodied practice, and collective learning as inseparable. Working closely with one another and with guest artists, scholars, teachers, and curators, as well as practice-based initiatives such as the Mellon funded Minor Aesthetics Lab, students will be asked to display and/or perform their work within the tradition of fusing aesthetics and social life.
Come dream, create, perform, build as a collective force with guest artists and scholars!
https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2025/spring/FAA/495
Also listed as AAS 495, GWS 425, ENGL 495, and THEA 468.
**This is the first course offered toward the new FAA minor in Minoritarian Aesthetics. FAA 495!**
FAA 491 PR/UP 494 KS: Community-based Sustainable Design in Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico
Travel to Puerto Rico, learn & participate in community-based sustainable design practices, and get course credit when you sign up for the Casa Pueblo Spring 2025 class today!
Course begins week of January 21, 2025
Travel during spring break- March 15 to 22, 2025
Instructors: Clinical Assoc Prof Ken Salo kensalo@illinois.edu & Prof Faranak Miraftab faranak@illinois.edu
This course will engage multidisciplinary and mixed level students from FAA in dialogs on participatory methods to bridge the campus community divides frustrating productive collaborations for sustainable design in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students will after six weeks of 3hr lectures and discussions travel, during Spring break, to directly engage local academics, artists, activists, and communities working with Casa Pueblo in municipality of Adjuntas, PR.
Application deadline: December 8, 2024.
Program Costs: $2,300
Go to https://go.illinois.edu/SDinPuertoRico for more itinerary and course information.
Application Review:
This program can accommodate 14 undergraduate/graduate students. The priority deadline for applications is December 8, 2024. At that time, students majoring in FAA (Sustainable Design, Arch, LA, UP) will receive priority. All students must have a 2.00 GPA to be considered. No letter of recommendation is requested or needed. No prior experience with the Spanish language is needed, but it would be helpful for your project and engagement. If there is a surplus of interested students, a waitlist will be utilized.
FAA 556 / MUS 566: Cripping Music
Cripping Music critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Music via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Music.
Course registration details: https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2025/spring/FAA/556
In support of expanded accessibility and Crip multiplicity, this course is being offered virtually with synchronous and asynchronous modalities.
FAA 553: Cripping Art + Design
Cripping Art & Design engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Art and Design fields via Crip* principles. This course will facilitate practice-based explorations of prosthesis, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, and temporal multiplicity guided by creative and critical Crip/Disabled methodologies and histories. A significant part of this course will feature a series of visiting artist/scholars who will join class to discuss their work/scholarship and conduct studio visits.
Course registration details: https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2025/spring/FAA/553
In support of expanded accessibility and Crip multiplicity, this course is being offered virtually with synchronous and asynchronous modalities.