Center for Public Practice


The Center for Public Practice currently offers three tracks of investigation that allow you to customize your own program of study: Social Environments, Spatial Situations, and In-Transit: Networks and Systems of Circulation. Social Environments encourages you to consider the social environment as material for your work. Projects are generated from and with the social context of collaborations, encounters, or public actions and activities. The focus is on social reality as a primary dimension of your work. Spatial Situations, you consider the intersection of the built and natural environment: the ways geography and geology collide with constructed aspects of the environment—airport terminals and neighborhood malls in urban, suburban, and rural contexts, for example. In-Transit: Public Networks and Systems of Circulation focuses on ways that public spaces are systematically connected or disconnected both locally and globally. This can include anything from surveillance cameras in local food marts, the mail delivery system, transit systems both physical and virtual, and GPS programs using satellite mapping and navigation. You are encouraged to intersect, critique, or hijack these systems in the process of making art.