Design Activism Brazil: Critical Practice in a Globalizing World

Dates:
June 6—25, 2012 (Note: Depart the US on June 5. Dates subject to change)

Itinerary:
Design Activism: Brazil offers students an exciting opportunity to simultaneously explore relevant and pro-active roles for art and design, while living and working in Igarai, a charming rural Brazilian village on the edge of the ecologically diverse Atlantic rainforest.

Students live in situ, on a historically significant sustainable coffee farm and ecological research center, for an intensive three week course that partners with NGO’s, educational organizations and design professionals to enact creative activist actions that demonstrate shared intelligence and innovative sustainable living strategies.

At a time when society struggles to understand the complexities of world economics, climate change, natural disasters, inequitable resource distribution, et al., It is essential that artists develop tools for innovative sustainable cultural futures, and collective art/design practices. Students are immersed in relational aesthetics and public practice-pedagogy, directly partnering with other university students, lgarai residents, a local social service agency for teens, and a women’s craft cooperative. Using-the lenses of post sustainability and critical development theory, students can better understand the impact of colonialism on the Southern Hemisphere and the ongoing effects that globalization has on the lived realities of people, such as living without access to essential resources.

Credits:
3 or 6 credits STUDIO Art Education Seminar and Studio Credits (3000-4000 level undergraduate or graduate)

Instructors:
Drea Howenstein, Art Education/AIADO
Jose Ferreira, Sculpture

Program fee:
$2,500 (includes all room and board, ground transportation, tours, lectures, project materials, language classes, accommodations, organic food meals, internet.)

PLUS Tuition cost per credit:
Undergraduate - $1,231 per credit hour;
Graduate - $1,301 per credit hour.

Airfare:
Budget at least $1,300 and $1,600 for airfare if flying from the USA and $200 for snacks, optional laundry service, free time entertainment (Note this is only an estimated figure).

Registration:

On-line Registration begins:
March 8, 2012

Deposit due at registration:
$500

Information Sessions:
Wednesday, February 8 at 4:10 p.m. in MC 111
Wednesday, February 22 at 12:10 p.m. in MC 111

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