Art as Intervention: Creative Responses in Contested Spaces, Conflict and Crisis

This project proposes to enhance the undergraduate experience in service learning through a new course "Art as Intervention – Creative Responses," specifically developed to create a bridge between the arts, humanities and social sciences. The goal of this course is to provide MIT undergraduate students and faculty a pedagogical platform to critically engage in issues of social change, service learning and collaborative projects on the field. Each term the topic addresses a different thematic aspect including how artistic practice can creatively intervene in everyday public discourses, but also in marginalized or contested spaces in local and global contexts. As part of the course the instructors seek to assess the value of combining hands-on artistic practice and critical reflection for the undergraduate experience at MIT.