Jordan Martins

How can artists use professional tools to connect with the art world while engaging with communities, institutions and organizations? In what ways can artists stimulate the public's imagination? Speculative proposals can communicate radical and provocative possibilities to inspire change. In this class students will explore the fantastic, utopic and dystopic that can be made possible within the limits of a hypothetical proposal. During the semester, students will use models, plans, diagrams and sculptural forms to create speculative proposals as standalone 'finished' pieces that imagine realities beyond current financial, physical, legal or practical constraints. The semester will culminate in the presentation of student projects. The class will organize, plan and promote the dissemination of the finished proposals, focusing on unique forms of distribution, presentation and public engagement.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.