ENGS 1P01 The Humanist Engineer

A Survey of Art, Technology and Science Collaborations

Eight thematic lectures and assigned reading-reflection lectures accompanied these themes:

  1. History of Art Technology & Science Collaborations

    The Fascination with Automation and Electronics

    20th and 21st Century technologies and Materials

    The New Bauhaus

    Experiments in Art and Technology

    Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT

  2. Art and Science, Ways of Seeing Visible and Invisible Environments and Situations

    Macro/Micro Distinctions

    Assemblage Theory

    The Invention of Modern Science

    Seen and Unseen Worlds

  3. Everything is Designed

    Designing for Disability

    Designing for Other Senses

    Innovation, Invention, Design and Drawing

    AI and Design

  4. Software Systems in Art, Design, Engineering and Architecture

    The Rise of Software

    The History of Software and Art

    AI and its use in Art and Design

    Decision-making Analysis and Automation

  5. Architecture: A New Vision

    The Importance and Immediacy of Drawing-out an Idea

    The Very Brief History of Grand Projects

    New Movements, Manifestos and Styles

  6. Architectural Speculations for Engineering Problems in the Built Environment

    The Importance of Being Hypothetical

    Past Speculative Architectural Movements

    Impermanence and Movable Structures

    Renovation and Repurposing Structures (Sculpture Engineering and Architecture)

  7. Environment, City Planning and the Engineer, Artist and Architect

    First Nations Theory and Applications on Planning and Architecture

    Biomimicry

    Living Machines

    Buckminster Fuller: Artist, Engineer, Architect and Thinker

    Black Mountain College

    Ecological Imperatives Eco-Art with Engineering in Mind

    Art and the Use of Waste as Aesthetic Material

    By-Products, Recycling/Upcycling

  8. The Morphogenic City

    New Public Spaces

    Transportation Systems

    Communication Systems

    Development, Redevelopment, Preservation