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NOTE: For Painting majors, elective instructor cannot be the same as studio instructor.
[Social Practice minor] Gardens are human interventions with nature for the cultivation of food, relaxation, and aesthetics. Gardens are places where city-dwellers can come to re-establish a connection to nature and where knowledge about plants can be passed down from one generation to the next. To explore what it means to cultivate a garden is to step into a layered discourse about history, health, power, and beauty, among many other topics. This class provides the student the opportunity to enter into this conversation and intentionally foster their own relationship to plants and gardens. Throughout the semester, especially in the warmer months, we will visit local parks and gardens, looking at them as places of healing, as well as ecosystems and metaphors. We will explore individual plants, and analyze gardens as interactive art installations and imagine new interventions with them. Through r