60-449 Advanced SP: Museum as Medium
10 units, Carnegie Mellon University
In this Social Practice studio class, held at the Carnegie Museum of Art CMoA, students will critically and creatively engage with the museum as a malleable medium a space where an imagined set of social agreements, stories of the past, and visions of the future are constructed in and with the public. The class will start with meetings with CMoA curators, education staff, docents, and conservators to understand how the museum produces, rather than merely preserves culture, and then will move to the production of studentdesigned projects that engage directly with the museum and its publics. While nominally open to everyone, its important to recognize that museums are also delimited by boundaries that limit them to certain uses by certain publics. This class will look at how artists, curators and educators have been working to reimagine the social role, politics, and pedagogy of the museum, questioning the very notion of who a museum is for and what a museum could become in the future. Students will be expected to work collaboratively with each other, museum staff, and the museums audience to produce projects such as alternative tours, performances, classes, publications, events and more that seek to make new meanings out of the medium that is the museum.
Prerequisites: none listed
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