Course
Description
This seminar will take up the role of borders in contemporary
culture as both actual entities and affective conditions.
In the context of the Windsor-Detroit border, students from
the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy
will take part in exchanging viewpoints based upon the experience
of living within a border culture. Students will travel back
and forth across the Windsor/Detroit border as part of the
course experience.
Seminars
will be based on the way in which borders are discussed in
several different contexts: in urban planning, spatial theory,
and surveillance culture as well as the way in which borders
have been historically resisted or subverted. We will begin
by looking at the role of borders in defining nation states
and cultural stereotypes, and will continue on to discuss
critical concepts such as ‘non-place’ or ‘interstitial
space’ that have been developed to articulate the specifics
of border zones in the early 21st century.
Assignments
include a Border Blog, an interview with a regular border-crosser,
and a design for a "border video game."
Time
and Location
Thursdays, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
In Windsor: Art
Gallery of Windsor or University
of Windsor Lebel Building
In Detroit: University
of Detroit Mercy, Briggs 217, McNichols Campus
Official
Course Numbers
University of Windsor: Visual Arts Pro-Seminar 28-456
University of Detroit Mercy: E-Crit Lab ENL-491-02
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