You Are Here: Engaging St. Louis's Racial History Through Site + Story

1.5 units

By acknowledging the pressures and pains of our political moment -- a time of crisis for many in our city and nation, but also a long-awaited reckoning with issues of social justice -- this course engages the complex history of race and racial injustice in St. Louis through site- and story-based exploration. It offers an opportunity to learn about the city's landscape, history, systems, culture, form and identity while wrestling with fundamental questions of power, positionality and perspective.You Are Here references orientation, discovery, otherness and place, and it serves as a provocation for reconsidering how designers, artists and architects engage St. Louis. This course may count toward the minor in Creative Practice for Social Change if bundled with Engaging Community: Understanding the Basics. Priority wil be given to first-year Sam Fox students.