Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 7AM - 7PM
Weekend: 10AM - 5PM
COURSE STRUCTURE
Into the Blue
for transdisciplinary learning
Structure
Course Structure
This pilot course was designed to allow you to adapt it to your context (country, education level, field of study) and so doesn’t have a rigid structure. Instead, we propose a series of materials and a general organization of exercises and topics interweaving theoretical and practical, scientific and artistic contents and approaches.
However, you can easily adapt the proposed structure and contents to best fit your needs and circumstances.
General Structure (proposal)
Blue: anatomy of a color (4h)
- Colour Theory
- Pigments timeline
- History and cultural significance
- Blue in Art
- Symbolism and meaning
Group Exercise: in search of Blue. (2h class + autonomous work)
Individual Exercise: Exploring blue in nature (2h class + autonomous work)
Exploring Blue: Cyanotype Impressions (4h)
- Theory & Practice
Exploring Blue: Blue remedy (4h)
- Speculative exercise / narrative
Exploring Blue: the deep blue bacteria
- Show examples and introduce the concept (2h)
Introducing Streptomyces coelicolor
- Theory + practice (4h)
Using pigments from bacteria
- dye textiles (2h)
- isolating pigment (2h)
- painting with the pigment (2h)
The end of blue: editing Streptomyces coelicolor using CRISPR-cas9s
- concepts of molecular biology (theory) (2h)
- introduction to gene editing & CRISP-R (theory) (2h)
- Knowing the blue target (Genes of blue /theory) (2h)
- Streptomyces coelicolor spore suspension (2h+2h)
- sgRNA (3h)
- Assembling the CRISPR plasmid (3h)
- Transformation of CRISPR plasmid into E. coli (2h+3h)
- Unfair trade in interspecies communication (conjugation) (3h)
- Awakening the trigger (cultivation and triggering) (2h)
The Future of Blue
- Examples from science and art (2h)
- Project: The future of blue (2h + autonomous work)
Project: The future of blue (4h + autonomous work)
Project presentations (2h)
