*Fall 2026 *NEW* Ways of Making: Creativity & Constraints
CLASS NUMBER:
770-01
INSTRUCTOR:
TIME:
Tuesdays, 6:30-9 PM
LOCATION:
GLS House, 2114 Campus Drive
DESCRIPTION:
Ways of Making explores creativity as a dynamic relationship between freedom and limitation.
This course creates space to slow down, experiment, and closely examine how creative work takes shape. Using everyday tools—disposable cameras, found and archival materials, open surveillance, writing, and abstract painting—we investigate how constraints, chance, and systems generate meaning.
Rather than treating limitations as obstacles, we approach them as catalysts for invention and attention. The course foregrounds process over polish, selection over mastery, attention over productivity, risk over proficiency, and questions over conclusions.
Working across multiple mediums, students will use technical, material, temporal, and conceptual limits as generative frameworks. Through rules, chance operations, and low-tech processes, we will explore how constraints reshape perception, authorship, and meaning.
Ultimately, Ways of Making asks: What happens to ideas when they encounter limits—rules, materials, time, habits, resistance? Here, constraints are not barriers to overcome but tools that help us see, think, and create differently.