Uncreative Designing

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Pamela Anderson look-a-like Sam Dormer competes for the attention of the photographers with a Venus de Milo statue. photo: Stefan Rousseau

Tibetan mastiff disguised as an African Lion revealed itself to be a dog when it began barking at zoo customers at People's Park of Luohe, 2013

This is the homepage for Pratt 22/FA-COMD-460-04 - Emerging Practices: Uncreative Designing, which is taken the course Uncreative Writing.

• Course Number: 22/FA-COMD-460-04
• Meeting Day: Friday
• Meeting Time: 3PM to 7:20 PM
• Classroom: Pratt Studios, Room 305
• Instructor: Sally Thurer, sthurer@pratt.edu
• Office hours: Wednesdays 1–4 by appointment.

Download Syllabus: File:22-FA-COMD-460-04 syllabus.pdf

• Course Canvas Page
• Are.na Channel
• Bootlegwiki

Recommended Texts (all readings will be provided as PDF):

• Walter Benjamin Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin
• Shanzhai By Byung-Chul Han 한병철
• Restoration Reader Edited by Sally Thurer, 2019
• The Ecstasy of Influence By Jonathan Lethem, 2007

Schedule
1	Sept 2	What is Creativity?	Proj. 1
2	Sept 9	Semiotics	Proj. 1 Cont.
3	Sept 16	Opacity	Proj. 1 Cont.
4	Sept 23	Proj. 1 Critique	Aura
5	Sept 30	Aura Cont.	Library Visit
6	Oct 7	Hyperreality	Proj. 2
7	Oct 14	Brooklyn Museum Field Trip
8	Oct 21	Copyleft	Proj. 2 Cont.
9	Oct 28	Proj. 2 Critique	Pastiche
10	Nov 4	Pastiche	Proj. 3 Proposal Due
11	Nov 11	Détournement	Proj. 3 Cont.
12	Nov 18	Hip Hop	Proj. 3 Cont.
-	Nov 25	Thanksgiving Break
13	Dec 2	Drag	Proj. 3 Cont.
14	Dec 9	Proj. 3 Critique
15	Dec 16	Online/Asynch	All Files Due...