Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction, syllabus review, assignment of presentations
2	Out to Work: Landscape-Labor-Commodity
3	MIT holiday, no formal class meeting but: Complete readings from field trip bibliography Prepare Lavine Lecture contributions
4	Minimalism, Monument, Money, Mortgage	Workshop on field trip readings; run-through of Lavin lecture presentations
5	What is/is not a landscape?
6	“Preserving” “Natural” “Culture” Meet at Museum of Fine Arts, Art of the Americas Wing	Guest visit: Mark Jarzombek Final project proposals due at beginning of class meeting
7	Urban Counterpoints? Part 1
Optional: Session with Harvard “Technical Lands” class. Screening of Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Sweetgrass with discussion of W. Cronon books to follow: Nature’s Metropolis and The Trouble with Wilderness
8	Landscape Perception
9	Urban Counterpoints? Part 2	Guest visit: Anne Whiston Spirn
10	Meet at MIT List Visual Arts Center for the Lavine Lecture
11	Politics of Nature
12	Final Research Paper presentations Feedback from peers in class; feedback from Caroline Jones via email	Guest visit: Nick Brown
13	Final Studio Project presentations Feedback from peers and instructors in class	Guest visit: Sarah Kanouse and Ruth Erickson Final papers and write-ups of final projects due six days after the last session

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