Welcome to the altbods blog

We use this blog as a resource to discuss the notion of "alternative bodies" in the marketplace and how to design for them/for us. We critique Euro-centric ideology pressed into design and research methods to make room for "alternative bodies" as the focus of artistic creation.

This blog represents the thoughts and art work of our studio class -- by students in architecture, design, illustration, sculpture, graphic and visual arts. We are a hybrid group with many talents.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Catch up on your Blogging, Reading, and Research

Hi Everyone,

Some of you have not blogged at all. Please remember that your grade is based, in part, on your participation in all activities -which includes blogging once a week.  Your blog can be a new post, or it can be a response to another student's entry.   I check this blog regularly - and take note of who/when you have blogged. 

Also, as stated on the syllabus: 10 minutes late to class = tardy.  3 tardies=1 absence.   3 absences=Failure of the course.  I recommend being neither late to class nor absent!

Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia is the author of the book we're reading this week, Criminal of Poverty. She also started POOR Magazine http://www.poormagazine.org/.   


     
There is a mural by the POOR group up for public view, in the Clarion St. alley located between Valencia and Mission St.s / 16th and 17th Streets.  Check this mural out to see visual work dealing with the subjects of poverty and mental disability that we are covering in class.


See you on Friday,  Dr. T.

2 comments:

Denali Schmidt said...

That mural sound interesting I will have to check it out next time I am in the city.

Suri Noh said...

I wish the Poor Magazine website was designed a little better. I do not like it whenever designs for or related to alternative bodied populations look way too ugly or non-mainstream.