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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2019
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HART 573 001 (CRN: 26617)
EVOLUTION CUSTOM BUILT
Long Title: EVOLUTION CUSTOM BUILT: ARCHITECTURE, GENETICS, AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
Department: Art History
Instructors:
Meeting: 4:00PM - 6:30PM R (7-JAN-2019 - 19-APR-2019)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Section Max Enrollment: 6
Section Enrolled: 4
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 12
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 8
Enrollment data as of: 19-APR-2024 1:14PM
Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam
Description: In the twentieth century, architects, scientists, engineers and technocrats attempted to free humanity from the constraints of nature…and were met with developments in science and technology sufficient to do so. Tracking the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century techno-scientific impetus to re/design the shape of the future, from the level of genes to the scale of the built environment, this seminar combines investigations and theories of landscape, object-oriented ontology, architecture and ecocriticism. In the first part of the course, we’ll unpack the history of modern agrilogistic thought, which projected empty, unoccupied space for opportunity and development onto otherwise occupied chromosomes, cultures and landscapes. The second section of this seminar traces the drive to order the biological world, using logics of efficiency and accountability, by rereading developments in energy, industry and resource development through the lens of object oriented ontology. Finally, we’ll reconsider developments in the plant, animal and human sciences that bolstered humanity’s twentieth-century hubris, from the birth of genetics to the role radiation played in liberating plant breeding from the confines of Mendelian crosses. Graduate students will have six additional readings and extra presentations of the landscape and architecture projects. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for HART 473 and HART 573. Cross-list: HART 473. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 573 if student has credit for HART 473.