BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260920T134701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:ISRMT Seminar: Title TBA DESCRIPTION:Abstract: TBA\n\n*To request access to the Zoom room\, please contact Nathan Hayford at nhayford [ at ] umich.edu.* UID:152449-21913751@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T120356 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Picturing Aura: A History of Technical Images at the Crossroads of Science\, Art\, and Occultism DESCRIPTION:Picturing Aura (MIT Press 2025) is a historical\, anthropological\, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize that hidden\, radiant force that envelops the living body and is known as the aura. This book traces the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques for visualizing auras\, from the late nineteenth century to the present day\, exploring how pictures of aura have been put to work in diverse domains of psychical and parapsychological research\, esotericism and occultism\, art photography\, and popular culture\, as well as the New Age market for alternative medicine and spiritual well-being. These histories—sometimes complementary\, sometimes conflicting—shaped by exchanges between professionals and amateurs\, scientists and occultists\, countercultural artists and entrepreneurs\, metropolitan figures and peripheral actors\, show how the aura functions as a boundary object: an ontologically plural entity amenable to the varied tasks of creating art\, healing bodies\, and mapping a hidden cosmos. My presentation will introduce some of the book’s key figures\, technologies\, and notable migrations of images\, while reflecting on the very endeavour of making the aura visible and the challenges it poses to established assumptions about science\, religion\, and art.\n\nJeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montréal\, Canada. He works in the interdisciplinary field of “religion and media\,” where he conducts research on the religious\, esoteric\, and occult dimensions of technology\, as well as the technological and material dimensions of religion. In addition to Picturing Aura\, his publications include Orthodox by Design (California UP\, 2010)\, a study of contemporary Orthodox Jewish print culture and its political implications\; Deus in Machina (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, an edited volume exploring the relationship between religion and technology from a historical and transcultural perspective\; as well as several co-edited journal issues focusing on the genealogy of animation\, religious visibility and invisibility\, and “light” as a medium of religious practice and imagination. UID:152526-21913882@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152526 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Science,Society,Technology LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T135648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:TBA DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:151698-21911991@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260828T144656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Τhe Greek Poet of the 21st Century between Melancholic Rupture and Insurgent Utopia DESCRIPTION:3rd Vakalo Family Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture\n\nThis lecture examines the poet of the twenty-first century as a social and political subject\, focusing on contemporary Greek poetry as it emerges through the interviews included in the online ten-year project Reading Greece implemented by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Drawing on poets’ own reflections\, it explores how today’s poets position themselves not as a detached aesthetic figure\, but as an engaged agent\, deeply implicated in the historical\, political\, and affective landscapes of their time. Contemporary Greek poets articulate a dynamic dialogue with the past\, engaging with personal and collective histories\, past traumas\, and the longue durée of Greek cultural memory. In their work\, poetry becomes a site where language registers the immediate pressures of socio-political reality: austerity\, precarity\, migration\, gendered and racialized violence\, and the restructuring of public space. The poet of the twenty-first century emerges as a figure who inhabits contradiction\, between private vulnerability and public intervention\, historical burden and utopian projection. This lecture argues that contemporary Greek poetry offers not only aesthetic innovation but also a form of political thinking: a practice that interrogates reality\, reclaims history\, and reimagines the collective horizon.\n\nAthina Rossoglou is a graduate of the Department of Foreign Languages\, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University. She has pursued studies in European Civilization and holds a postgraduate degree in Public History. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Ionian University. Her research examines Greek poetry of the 21st century\, with particular emphasis on the ways in which it engages with the concepts of history\, nationhood\, public space\, and identity formation. She serves as a Press Attaché at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, where she was responsible for the “Reading Greece” project for a period of ten years\, an initiative aimed at the promotion and international dissemination of contemporary Greek literature. UID:151131-21910905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151131 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Lecture,Modern Greek LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260920T105906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T183000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Lockheed Martin Corporate Information Session DESCRIPTION:10/12/2026 | 5:30 pm | VIRTUAL\nMajors: All Engineering Majors\nPositions: Intern\, Full-time\nDegrees: Bachelors\, Masters\nUS Citizenship\nResumes Collected\n\nThe world relies on what we do. \n\nHeadquartered in Bethesda\, Maryland\, with offices across the U.S. and around the globe\, our team delivers solutions that strengthen national security\, shape industries and push engineering and technology to new levels. We collaborate to win. We put our customers first. And we perform with excellence.\n\nThe best careers are built at Lockheed Martin. Join us.\n\n\"Lockheed Martin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/95890401186\n\nMeeting ID: 958 9040 1186\n\n---\n\nOne tap mobile\n+13017158592\,\,95890401186# US (Washington DC)\n+13052241968\,\,95890401186# US\n\n\n---\n\nJoin by SIP\n• 95890401186@zoomcrc.com\n\nJoin instructions\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/meetings/95890401186/invitations?signature=0gVggENjcH7j7MzhJvh5CHkt_mzMvpgr2YvQOyjS4Vg\" UID:152481-21913802@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152481 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aerospace Engineering,Bachelors,Biomedical Engineering,Career,Chemical Engineering,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Civil Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,College Of Engineering,Computer Engineering,Corporate,Corporate Event,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Environmental Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Student,Graduate Students,Internship,Masters Students,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Recruiting,Undergrad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/95890401186 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Aanikoobijigan DESCRIPTION:\n\nTrapped in museum archives\, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History\, spirituality\, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains\, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.\nThe film Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance\, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes\, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from settler colonial institutions like museums\, libraries\, and archives. Adam and Zack Khalil’s monumental and formally daring film follows the pressing struggle to rebury Indigenous human remains that have been held in sterile storage\, laying bare the history of Indigenous collections and the battle to recognize and enforce the laws intended to facilitate their repatriation to the communities they were originally stolen from. Using an essayistic approach alongside vérité portraits\, the film celebrates the courageous individuals who carry out this hard and emotionally draining labor of return. \n\n—Sundance Film Festival\n\nAanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] directors Adam and Zack Khalil are members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. They are co-directors and co-editors of the feature documentary INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./ it flies. falls./] (2016) which premiered as the closing night film of the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight Film Festival\, and the experimental documentary short The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2017) which premiered at Sundance. The Khalils are core contributors to New Red Order\, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward indigeneity into question\, yet promotes this desire\, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency. \n\nAdam Khalil is an artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor\, relation\, and transgression. A co-founder of COUSINS Collective\, Khalil’s work has been exhibited or screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, Tate Modern\, HKW\, Walker Arts Center\, Lincoln Center\, Palais de Tokyo\, Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Creative Time\, Toronto Biennial 2019\, Whitney Biennial 2019\, Sharjah Biennial 15\, Counterpublic Triennial 2023\, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including a 2021 Creative Capital Award\, a 2020 Herb Alpert Award\, a Jerome Artist Fellowship\, the Gates Millennium Scholarship\, and honors from Sundance Art of Nonfiction and Cinereach.\n\nZack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist whose work centers Indigenous narratives in the present—and looks towards the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Khalil also works professionally as a video editor\, most recently co-editing Alison O’Daniels feature film The Tuba Thieves (2023)\, which premiered at Sundance. Khalil’s own work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, CPH: DOX\, HKW\, Walker Arts Center\, Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Creative Time\, Toronto Biennial 2019\, Whitney Biennial 2019\, 59th Venice Biennale\, Sharjah Biennial 15\, and Counterpublic Triennial 2023\, among other institutions and festivals. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship\, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction grant\, and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.\n\nFollowing the Penny Stamps Speaker Series screening of Aanikoobijigan at the Michigan Theater on October 12\, a reception and Q&A will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. at Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). Filmmakers Zack and Adam Khalil\, with special guests\, will speak in reflection on their film and process.\n\nIn partnership with the U-M Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Office\; U-M Museum of Anthropological Archeology\; U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum\; U-M Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\; U-M Department of Native American Studies\; the U-M Department of American Culture\; the U-M Inclusive History Project\; the U-M Department of Anthropology\; U-M Museum Studies Program\; and the U-M Stamps Gallery.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:150480-21909503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150480 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T180256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T210000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Brazilian Zouk Dance Lesson DESCRIPTION:Hi zoukinis! Join us for Brazilian Zouk Dance Lessons!\nNot sure what Zouk is? Zouk is a Brazilian social partner dance known for its fun-loving and playful style\, often involving close embrace\, body rolls\, and hair whips. Check out our page for example videos! \n6 pm-Beginner Lesson\n7 pm-Practica\n8 pm-Improver Lesson\nAll of our lessons are open level and require no experience\, feel free to drop in and meet our fun-loving and welcoming community. See you soon! UID:151440-21911597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151440 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:TBD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260916T135741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Communication and Media Information Session #2 DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Communication and Media major\, academics\, and extracurricular opportunities available to prospective and declared students. UID:152308-21913510@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152308 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication And Media,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260916T115012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:From 1776 to the Ballot Box DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of the Clements Library and the U-M History Club to learn about American voting history and the Revolutionary War-era materials held right here on central campus. Peruse the exhibit “Who Counts? A History of Voting in America\,” develop a voting plan for this November with students from Turn Up Turnout\, and play a game of Jeopardy to test your knowledge on voting and Revolutionary War history while snacking on pizza! UID:152260-21913453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152260 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Food,Free,Fun,history,libraries,Library,Us At 250,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T202119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:South Quad / Fletcher (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:151431-21913741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Yuri Kochiyama lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T180318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T193000 SUMMARY:Other:General Meeting DESCRIPTION:General Meeting! UID:151663-21911910@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151663 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Rackham West Conference Room- Fourth Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T202121 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:North Quad (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150256-21913479@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150256 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:NQ Bowman Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T203000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Public Reception and Film Talkback: Aanikoobijigan DESCRIPTION:\n\nFollowing the screening of Aanikoobijigan at Michigan Theater\, a reception and Q&A will take place at Stamps Gallery where filmmakers Zack and Adam Khalil will speak in reflection on their film and process. Filmmakers and special guests will be in attendance. Light refreshments will be served.\n\nAbout the Film\nIn the sterile storage of museums and archives our ancestor’s remains struggle to find their way home. Aanikoobijigan follows eleven indigenous repatriation specialists that make up MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation & Repatriation Alliance) fighting to rebury and return ancestors from settler-colonial libraries\, archives\, and museums. Through an essayistic approach the film lays bare the history of indigenous collections\, the laws passed to ensure return of human remains and funerary objects\, and vérité portraits of the righteous and courageous individuals doing the hard and emotionally draining work of bringing our ancestors back home.\n\nPresented in partnership with the U-M Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Office\; U-M Museum of Anthropological Archeology\; U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum\; U-M Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\; the U-M Department of American Culture\; the U-M Inclusive History Project\; the U-M Department of Anthropology\; U-M Museum Studies Program\; and the U-M Stamps Gallery.\n UID:150343-21909052@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150343 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T202125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Stockwell (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150491-21913540@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150491 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Rosa Parks Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260508T112915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Alash DESCRIPTION:Alash are masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the ancient art of throat singing\, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve\, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements\, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new\, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage.\n\nAlash first toured the U.S. under the sponsorship of the OpenWorld Leadership program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then they have returned many times\, to the delight of American audiences. The Washington Post described their music as “utterly stunning\,” quipping that after the performance“audience members picked their jaws up off the floor.”\n\nAlash enjoys collaborating with musicians of all stripes. Since their early partnership with the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra\, they have joined forces with musicians across the spectrum—from country to classical to jazz to beatboxing. Alash appeared as guest artists on Béla Fleck & the Flecktones’ Grammy-winning holiday CD Jingle All the Way (2008). They joined Chicago’s innovative Fifth House Ensemble in a groundbreaking concert series called Sonic Meditations\, and later were part of a “global jam band” which recorded the soundtrack for the video game The Pathless. Most recently\, Bady-Dorzhu Ondar teamed up with beatboxer Shodekeh in a live recording of original Tuvan songs filtered through the creative artistry of hip hop musicians. UID:148048-21902884@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148048 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T202127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T220000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Bursley (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150881-21913758@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Creative Suite CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T121634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Michael Thornton\, French horn DESCRIPTION:Professor of Horn Michael Thornton performs a recital including the John Williams Horn Concerto. UID:149966-21907451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149966 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\n\nAugust 24 - October 18\, 2026\nExhibition Reception: October 1\, 1-2:30 p.m.\n\nIn their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students \"develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.\" \n\nStamps Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator Sally Clegg notes\, \"Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now?\" At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \n\nInstalled throughout the Art & Architecture Building\, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students\, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. The pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path: experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\n\nAs Course Coordinator\, Stamps Assistant Professor Pedram Baldari both teaches and works directly with all the faculty overseeing each section to collaboratively support the entire class. He offers this reflection on the diverse collection of work on view in this year’s exhibition.\n\nThese works engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory\, identity\, materiality\, ecology\, technology\, labor\, social relationships\, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition\, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction\, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.\n\nSYS is intentionally structured around a different learning model than project-based courses. Rather than responding to predetermined assignments\, students identify their own questions and spend an entire semester developing them through research\, experimentation\, critique\, and multiple iterations. The emphasis is not on arriving quickly at a resolved outcome\, but on cultivating the capacity to work independently\, remain responsive to new discoveries\, and allow the project itself to evolve through sustained engagement.\n\nAs a result\, the exhibition presents more than a collection of finished works. It documents different ways of investigating\, testing\, and refining ideas. Some students advance through material experimentation\, others through drawing\, installation\, performance\, digital media\, social engagement\, or speculative approaches. Each project reflects a distinct methodology that has developed through repeated cycles of making\, reflection\, critique\, and revision. In a sense\, the dialectical process generated by the nature of this course is the most significant thread connecting this year’s exhibition. It marks a point at which students begin moving beyond solving assignments toward constructing independent practices\, developing the habits of inquiry\, critical reflection\, and experimentation that will continue to shape their work well beyond SYS.\n\n\n\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n