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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PCE 335 - Future Cities: Speculations, Countermappings, and Narratives of Possibility (4 Cr.)
How do people build the institutions that will democratize the processes by which the future cities will be built, whether we mean “build” in material terms or in terms of communities’ social shaping? Even as “innovation” and “imagination” are praised by hegemonic institutions, we find ourselves too often in narratives that are at best remodelings of the status quo. This class will look at the role of this imaginative labor, the strategies that learn from and rearrange the predictable into the possible in processes of social change. Studying creative text, especially speculative fiction, futurisms, and countermappings, we will experiment with such new narrative practices, using examples from both the global arena and the Baltimore metropolitan area. Prerequisite: a 100-level course in Peace Studies or sophomore standing. Spring 2017. Hopper.
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