DEA 5500 - Designing Atmospheres

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Permission of instructor required. Preference will be given to upper level undergraduate students in FSAD, DEA, ARCH, and LARC majors, and graduate students with design backgrounds.

L. Beaman.

From art installations and architectural pavilions to film and theatrical scenography, the crafting of atmospheres connects human experience and physical phenomena through the design of material and immaterial affects. Designing Atmospheres provides students an opportunity to study, design, and manufacture affects through the creation of full-scale atmospheres. Drawing on a contemporary history of artists and designers working within the realm of affects, this course lays a foundation for spatial design that explores aesthetic and environmental perspectives as much as cultural and political discourse.

Outcome 1: Understand how affects shape and reshape sensorial and spatial experiences manifested through atmospheres/atmospherics.

Outcome 2: Utilize research, design, and fabrication techniques to construct material and immaterial affects focused on the qualities of human experiences.

Outcome 3: Access, understand, and respond to environmental, budgetary, and scheduling constraints, as well as material, political, and cultural contexts through a collaborative design and production process.