Special Subject: Architecture Design — Curating the Page: Building Media for Ourselves & Others

This course continues the Imprint publication workshops begun in 2020, which led to the student-designed and produced Imprint 01 & 02 last year. This class will help conceive the Imprint 03 publication, and a student team will be hired from its members to produce the publication in Summer 2022. This spring's class will function in a workshop format with three primary goals: 1.) To help students engage and acquire skills needed to conceive and produce a complex graphic design project like Imprint; 2.) To help students ask, and answer fundamental questions guiding this year's publication’s strategy: What can a book be? Who decides? And how does one curate a selection of essays in an edited volume or journal?; 3.) To catalyze exploration, and engagement with the intricate connections between text and image authorship in publications across design history. The class will be an opportunity (for all students in each graduate degree area in the Department of Architecture) to reflect on previous Imprint issues, revise the project’s structure and future goals, and as a way for new students to get involved in bringing the Imprint 03 project forward in summer 2022.