UC Santa Cruz has launched the planning process for a groundbreaking new interdisciplinary Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. To inform that process, we have gathered together an exceptional group of practitioners and thinkers whose work engages the arts, the sciences and social sciences, museums, performance, architecture, and landscape design. 3 Conversations will help shape the new Institute’s program and design.
Conference Schedule
9 a.m. Coffee
9:30 a.m. Welcome and Keynote address on architecture, landscape, and community by noted landscape architect Walter Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30 a.m. Conversation 1
The Uses and Abuses of Interdisciplinarity
James Clifford
Marina McDougall
Kim Yasuda
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Moderator: David Yager
12 p.m. Catered Lunch with RSVP
(seating is limited; lunch provided on a first-come, first-serve basis with advance RSVP)
1:30 p.m. Conversation 2
The Envelope, Contents, and Community
Walter Hood
Harrell Fletcher
Teddy Cruz
Moderator: Connie Wolf
3 p.m. Conversation 3
Presenting in the Academy
Lawrence Rinder
Kristy Edmunds
Elisabeth Cameron
Moderator: John Weber
4:30 p.m. Preview of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition and wine reception
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)
(Shuttle provided from the University Center)
For questions or to RSVP for lunch, please email ias@ucsc.edu
pictured: Walter Hood