TSD 8009 - Experiments with Transforming the Everyday

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

Everyday routines will provide a laboratory for our attempts to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. We will create experiments that aim to alter habitual patterns that may include reading and writing, watching television, washing the clothes, everyday greetings, taking out the trash, ordering a pizza, and so forth. We will situate the work within the traditions of absurd psychotherapy, experimental theater, and wild shamanism. The cybernetics of change, based on the epistemology of Gregory Bateson, Heinz von Foerster, and Francisco Varela, will be used to provide theoretical maps of understanding.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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