The Book of Water

In this essay, Joe Wilkins contemplates the intersection of water and drought with the human experience

Design history and the human experience

This thesis, Design History and the Human Experience, is a course which offers a new approach to teaching design history by presenting the material through a historical/popular culture lens. The research and content organizing methodology will show how design is part of a larger context reflecting and creating the culture we live in. When design history includes an emphasis on the historical and cultural contexts, the designer\u27s work takes on deeper meaning and relevance. The underlying philosophy of the thesis, Design History and The Human Experience, argues that design does not occur in a vacuum but emerges from many social, cultural and historical influences. This thesis demonstrates the relationship between design and these influences, and offers a methodology for presenting and teaching the material. The course also takes into account the importance of critical mediation and considers at the circumstances surrounding the critical evaluation of the designers\u27 work, for it is through this evaluation process that certain work is given prominence in design history while other designers go unmentioned

Senior Inquiry: Diversity of the Human Experience

This collaboratively created poster summarizes, in graphic form, the Senior Inquiry students\u27 year-long course of study

Certain Uncertainties: Chaos and the Human Experience

Accompanies an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from April 17 through June 2, 1996. This brochure is published with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. --Colophonhttps://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/art-museum-exhibition-catalogs/1048/thumbnail.jp

Music and the Human Experience: Program Notes

Thomas Tallis (1505—1585), If ye love me Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679—1745), Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta Moses Hogan (1957-2003), Hear My Prayer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660—1725), Exultate Deo Amy Beach (1867-1944), Three Flower Songs Thomas Morley (1557-1602), April is in my mistress’ face Stephen Paulus (1949-2014), Southern Harmony Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Liebst du um Schönheit Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Lebenslust (“Love of Life”) Sarah Quartel (b. 1982), “Sing, My Child” Frank Ticheli (b. 1958), Earth Song Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Rest Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979), The Music of Stillness J. David Moore (b. 1962), Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michael Barrett (b. 1983), Modimo Created as part of MUAP 62