60-392 Inner Geographies

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Inner Geographies On Discovering the Inward Landscapes and Journeys of the Mind and Body This course will discover and explore the inward subconscious topologies of perception, thought logics, memory, imagination, intuition, the hypnogogic between dream and waking, dreaming, telepathy, meditation and trance in relation to artistic and other forms of creativity writing, science, and technologies. The general purpose of the course is to familiarize students with their own unique individual and specific patterns of creativity and thereby reveal new artistic and other unanticipated disciplinary potentials projects. Through simple exercises these aspects of the creative mind and body will be revealed and explored, noted, organized and mapped toward simple formal objects and outcomes, and at the same time, toward a chosen artistic projects or research, All students will evolve a final project. Our texts will include Anton Ehrensweig, The Hidden Order of Art, Edward Hall, The Hidden Dimension, Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, Carl Gustuv Jung, The Red Book, Matin Heidegger, Being and Time, and other excerpted texts. Students will be expected to learn, articulate and use new creative mental tools and methodologies in the creation of their projects.

Prerequisites: none listed

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