This faculty workshop is a place to collectively reflect on creative options for teaching and connecting through remote technology during the COVID19 quarantine.

The emphasis is placed on the humanistic values that are at risk when using technological tools. The sessions act as a platform to connect, dive into and experience creative options together from the perspective of the participant. To achieve this, each session proposes a prompt specifically targeting the challenging aspects of remote teaching/learning/expression in humanities. Prompts are presented by invited guests that the participants collaboratively work with and discuss. The workshop is not discipline-specific, prompts can be applied to multiple fields, it is not about being productive, the only requirement is the willingness to engage with creative methods and interest in exploring the receiver-side dynamics. No preparation or prior experience is necessary. If you are interested in creative interaction, please email: zs100@wellesley.edu

The workshop was inspired by the limitations and distance addressed in examples from history and my MFA research at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during my remote studies collaborating with a cohort of artists and faculty from Berlin and Budapest. The latest art project using techniques from these explorations were used by my co-author and I for a year and a half in 2018-19 during our remote collaboration. The result of this experiment is a bilingual book “Productive Misreadings | Termékeny félreértés” published in February 2020, a month before pandemic officially announced in the US. See more about the book here>>