Abstract
This paper provides a critical overview of a transdisciplinary graduate-level photography course at the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Manitoba that combines the practice, theory, and history of photography. The course takes place over three weeks in Montreal, Ottawa, and Winnipeg and concludes with a temporary exhibition of student work. Students use the city as a guerrilla classroom and analyze social and cultural spaces such as galleries, markets, neighbourhoods, archives, prints, and drawing rooms, and have conversations with a variety of cultural workers and photographers. Image making is informed interdisciplinary concepts, such as adaptive reuse, mapping, framing, mise-en-scene, and derive drawn from the writings of Sally Stone, Graeme Brooker, Mieke Bal, and Jane Tormey related to the intersection between photography, design culture, and the city.
Presenters
Susan CloseAssociate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Interior Design Dept., University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Design Culture, Photography, Urbanism, Built Environment, Adaptive Reuse
