Capstone I is the first step in the senior year of CND students which will culminate in the spring semester with Capstone II and the Final Year Showcase. In this class, we will seek to investigate the processes involved in transforming our ideas via research and practice into tangible items that exist in the world. We will dive deep into research in art, media, and design, with the intention of utilizing these investigations to come up with novel ideas that complicate our understanding of the world, provide a solution to a problem, or simply help manifest our deepest obsessions in the form of representation in the physical world. We will seek to create a community within this classroom, as we discuss, argue, and reflect on the ideas of others with generosity, rigor, and in the spirit of encouragement, building up towards a comprehensive final research proposal for a project that will then be completed in Capstone II.
