NYU Tandon @ The Yard Summer Workshop Series

Programs that tend to teach one thing or even several things neatly bounded and categorized are generally easy to describe and easy to write about. IDM is not such a program. Even a cursory look at the makeup of our faculty, the courses we teach, and our academic and professional practice cannot fail to give the impression that we are a program hard to pin down: an eclectic crew of singular individuals gathering the arts, design, engineering and humanities into our capacious minds and hands. A visit to our floor and a few conversations with our students would reveal much the same: terrifically busy crisscrossing mediums, genres, and forms; curious, critical, and creative. We could add, with no little pride, that we temper this spirit of experimentation and invention with a commitment to criticality and ethical and social responsibility; to engage in 'art for art's sake, design for the market' would be no good. So perhaps this is what, despite the diversity of disciplines, practices and skills we present, binds us together - faculty and students - in common cause, that we believe to create entails a commitment to what Hyginus deemed as constitutive of the human condition: care.