Prerequisite(s): Students in the 3-yr MLA program must complete LARP 533: Media I and LARP 542 Media II prior to beginning LARP 543: Media III.
Media III continues the curricular emphasis on visual communication and methods of generative analysis. As such, this media course helps students develop effective methods for locating sites of strategic impact through the collection and analysis of regional scale geospatial datasets. Through directed lab sessions, students learn to work through complex geospatial analysis methods and the creation of custom parametric tools as a means of isolating significant factors from an array of landscape attributes (i.e. slope, aspect, landcover, etc). By linking attributes parametrically, a site or terrain can, subsequently, be construed as a constituent feature of the larger geophysical and ecological exchanges that arise throughout a landscape. The course helps students develop effective workflows to iteratively process data across a variety of related analysis and design platforms (i.e. ArcGIS Pro, Rhino, Grasshopper, and AfterEffects).
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