This course offers you the opportunity to engage with art thinking and art practice. It proposes a collective and experimental space based on the individual projects of each student. You will learn, explore and practice arts processes and develop a personal art project. This module will provide an experience in interdisciplinary thinking. It will call on a wide-ranging set of materials from art, anthropology, architecture, philosophy, biology, physics, mathematics, neurology and geology and introduce students to the work of some thinkers and practitioners working in those areas. Further, it will visit a diversity of experts on different fields to contribute and experiment with the aforementioned materials.

Every year Arts and Interdisiciplinarity chooses a concept as a pretext to catalyst the process of thinking together and through it start exploring each one art practice. This topic is just an excuse and an activator to start looking and understanding art together. The concept will get dissolve in the passing of the course to focus in your own art practice, concepts and interests. This year we propose the concept of Play, as the main topic to drive the course. Play will be the excuse to bind the course. This thematic will help us to frame the explorations and will work as an encounter axis.

We will use a mixture of theory and practice to generate a collective critical thinking. Weekly lecture/seminar sessions will strengthen your interests and personal projects. You will be expected to bring materials to the seminars every three weeks, which will be feedback into group lecture/seminar work and individual tutorials, as well as coursework assessments.

The final element of this course is the development and exhibition of your personal art project. One-to-one tutorials will engage you in the development of your personal project identifying and exploring your interest to potentiate the final shape of the project and expand its thought. Furthermore the development of a personal artist notebook or diary will be required. This diary will be the print of your personal research and your project development.