James Turrell’s Roden Crater Student Projects
ASU launched an academic partnership in 2018 with the internationally acclaimed light and space artist James Turrell, placing Roden Crater at the center of learning and innovation. Roden Crater is an unprecedented large-scale artwork created within a volcanic cinder cone near Flagstaff in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona. Within this volcano, Turrell is sculpting discrete viewing spaces and chambers in which individuals may experience the light from celestial objects and observe the cosmos.
Based in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU’s Roden Crater academic programs aim to provide educational experiences for learners of all ages. Field labs, design studios, internships, and virtual and embodied learning opportunities are designed by faculty working across ASU’s 17 colleges. This archive is dedicated to the preservation of the student projects created in the multi-disciplinary academic programs connected to Roden Crater.
Students and faculty participate in a panel discussion at the student showcase on April 29, 2019 in Marston Theater at Arizona State University.
Spring 2019 Course: Indigenous Stories and Sky Science (taught by Wanda Dalla Costa)
Roden Crater is situated in the territorial homelands of at least eight Arizona tribes. To honor local history and the continued practice of Indigenous sky science in the southwest, the field lab Indigenous Stories and Sky Science will view the Crater through the lens of Indigeneity. The students, who went on a five-day journey to Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, meeting locals, interacting with place and touring sites of sky observation, shared their experience using the four knowledges of community resilience: empirical, traditional, revealed and contemporary (From Johnson, et al. (2015). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods).
Spring 2019 Course: Indigenous Stories and Sky Science (taught by Wanda Dalla Costa)
Roden Crater is situated in the territorial homelands of at least eight Arizona tribes. To honor local history and the continued practice of Indigenous sky science in the southwest, the field lab Indigenous Stories and Sky Science will view the Crater through the lens of Indigeneity. The students, who went on a five-day journey to Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, meeting locals, interacting with place and touring sites of sky observation, shared their experience using the four knowledges of community resilience: empirical, traditional, revealed and contemporary (From Johnson, et al. (2015). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods).
Spring 2019 Course: Indigenous Stories and Sky Science (taught by Wanda Dalla Costa)
Roden Crater is situated in the territorial homelands of at least eight Arizona tribes. To honor local history and the continued practice of Indigenous sky science in the southwest, the field lab Indigenous Stories and Sky Science will view the Crater through the lens of Indigeneity. The students, who went on a five-day journey to Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, meeting locals, interacting with place and touring sites of sky observation, shared their experience using the four knowledges of community resilience: empirical, traditional, revealed and contemporary (From Johnson, et al. (2015). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods).