The pilot Barnard Teaches course is a seminar and digital lab on the material world of the Enlightenment. Four class sessions are taught onsite at The Met by Met curators. The invention of the private interior, the birth of global capitalism, and the rise of individualism are studied through their expression in some of the most glorious craned furnishings ever created. The instructor works with Alex Gil from Columbia University’s DHC to teach a 1-hour digital lab that meets once a week. Instead of writing papers, students create digital work, leading to a course website.
Faculty Member:
Professor Anne Higonnet, Art History; Ann Whitney Olin Professor
Partner Institutions:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
The Digital Humanities Center at Columbia University Libraries (DHC)
Scheduled for:
Spring 2015, Fall 2016
Student projects:
- A Lacquer World
- Materials and their Makers
- Uses of Space
Note: the course site has not launched yet. It should be up later this year.