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This lab course offers a unique space for students to participate in collective cooking and socially engaged meals. To foster a close-knit group and build strong social bonds, this course emphasizes in-situ learning. Through the collaborative and repetitive process of food preparation, students will establish meaningful routines for

Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices in contemporary art. We will explore the issues of local food insecurity in the Bennington region and how artistic process can join forces with activism to expand awareness and seek imaginative solutions. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction

This course will provide students with an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices and ethical processes that take up issues of food insecurity in the Bennington region. The class activities will be centered around a collaborative project, Empty Bowls, that links a community service organization (Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Service Inc.) with

This course will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices of contemporary art and ethical processes in the context of local food insecurity. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction with local residents and by investigating creative interventions devised by artists/activists dealing with issues of food sovereignty and social justice,

This course explores the pedagogy and practice of Food Studies, specifically focusing on the methods used to build resilient, food-based communities. Drawing from the legacy of student-led "Social Kitchen" activities at Bennington College across FWT, internships, and independent research, we will reexamine the kitchen space as a crucial

This course explores the pedagogy and practice of Food Studies, specifically focusing on the methods used to build resilient, food-based communities. Drawing from the legacy of student-led "Social Kitchen" activities at Bennington College across FWT, internships, and independent research, we will reexamine the kitchen space as a crucial

This class aims to explore opportunities for making and locating sculpture in a broader socio-cultural context. In-class presentations and discussions are structured to identify important examples of contemporary art practice and serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas and debate. Students will pursue projects that expand considerations of public audience engagement. We

The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social

The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social

The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social

What circumstances prompt people to disrupt their daily lives, with the goal of bringing about social change? Through literature, journalistic accounts and ethnographies of social movements, this course will explore the contexts in which social movements arise, the strategies they use and the issues they address, throughout Latin America. We will explore how the shared

Now over 10 years old, “Social Practice” is a term broadly applied to a variety of art-making strategies that implicates other people and/or social systems in their making. The genre has diversified from representing social forms (dinner parties, conversations) into stand-alone museums, real estate cooperatives, and schools: projects that intervene into real-world systems on

In this course, we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how artists are moving out of the studio and into the public realm with their work.  Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies that engage social forms from public discourse, activism, online networks, shared meals, street interventions, social sculpture, performance, artist

Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from tactical media, online networking, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on current practitioners. Students work collaboratively on projects that critically

Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from interactive media, online networks, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how media and technology are impacting and shifting current practice. Students

In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how artists are moving out of the studio and into the public realm with their work.  Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from interactive media, online networks, public discourse, activism, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, open systems

Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of

Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of

Writers don’t just tell stories. They live them. In Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, Stuart Hall describes his upbringing in 1930’s Jamaica, then a British colony. Eventually, Hall–– who is credited with being one of the founding figures of the field of Cultural Studies––made his way to the UK, where he went on to publish a number of seminal texts. Without a doubt

How is American society stratified on the basis of race and social class? What are the social categories of race and class and how are these defined and reified through institutional structures? What are the consequences of inequality for a democratic society? Through examinations of classical and contemporary sociological texts, we will identify and interrogate patterns of

Threading together. This course focuses on developing collaborative group projects which reflect the concept of collective sharing that lies at the heart of various arts collectives in Asia. We start by creating a place and space for a communal gathering centered on the collective action of repairing and transforming clothing. Core topics are anchored in the cultural discourse

This course focuses on developing an independent, self-directed research project, anchored in cultural discourse and social-political context of food and to be pursued through various creative practices. Research topics include but are not limited to decolonization, migration, identity, community activism, mutual care and collective healing. Engaging with creative

Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as

Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as

C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as a “quality of mind” that enables one to view the relations between “history and biography” within society. The core work of sociology is to identify ways in which one’s own seemingly unique “personal troubles” are in fact connected to larger “public issues.” In this course students will work on developing and refining