MediaDesignPractices
FA15: DeTour
DE-TOUR: The MDP Dialectical Bus Tour
2015 Order/Disorder - led by Elizabeth Chin and Tim Durfee
Los Angeles is the beach, the movie industry, freeways, and the Hollywood Sign. It is also a vibrant and strange intersection of people, economies, industries, technologies, landscapes, ecologies, histories, cultures, futures, burritos, shawarma, and Sirracha sauce.
The DE-TOUR is the first official event of each academic year at the MDP. TI launches the term for the program, and serves as a form of initiation for the incoming students to the form of critical viewing, conversation, and "speculative reflection" we value and promote here. The weeklong annual DE-TOUR is a longstanding MDP tradition, initiated by Peter Lunenfeld and current faculty member Norman Klein (originally as the Dialectical Bus Tour.)
Over the course of a week, we will visit a series of sites and engage in ongoing, information discussion orbiting around a central theme. Students will be assigned teams, and - with the intensity of a charrette - engage in research and production of a group project.
FA15: DeTour
DE-TOUR: The MDP Dialectical Bus Tour
2015 Order/Disorder - led by Elizabeth Chin and Tim Durfee
Los Angeles is the beach, the movie industry, freeways, and the Hollywood Sign. It is also a vibrant and strange intersection of people, economies, industries, technologies, landscapes, ecologies, histories, cultures, futures, burritos, shawarma, and Sirracha sauce.
The DE-TOUR is the first official event of each academic year at the MDP. TI launches the term for the program, and serves as a form of initiation for the incoming students to the form of critical viewing, conversation, and "speculative reflection" we value and promote here. The weeklong annual DE-TOUR is a longstanding MDP tradition, initiated by Peter Lunenfeld and current faculty member Norman Klein (originally as the Dialectical Bus Tour.)
Over the course of a week, we will visit a series of sites and engage in ongoing, information discussion orbiting around a central theme. Students will be assigned teams, and - with the intensity of a charrette - engage in research and production of a group project.