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ARCH6911-1 / Spring 2024

Metabolic Materialities: Between the Animate and the Inanimate

Metabolic Materialities focuses on material experimentation to call into question the line between the animate and the inanimate. Metabolic processes serve as both metaphor and mechanism for the transformation of matter. The course methods borrow from and work through scientific discourses, industry-specific expertise, animal studies, queer theory and critical race theory. Artistic practice, understood broadly, offers case studies for making new material perspectives visible or sensible. Students will seek to understand material transformations as organized across ecological, economic, and political matrices: looking at material origins, sourcing and extraction, networks of exchange, and the impacts of these networks on human and non-human lifeworlds. The final works–understood as artworks–attempt to work through how artistic or architectural uses of materials mask or reveal these processes.

Location & Time

408 AVERY

W 11 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

FULL SEMESTER

3 Points
Call Number

14165

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Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
A6911‑1 Spring 2025
Metabolic Materialities: Between the Animate and the Inanimate
Michael Wang
408 AVERY
W 11 AM - 1 PM
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
11304