The Foreign Exchange Pilot Project

The Foreign Exchange Pilot Project will bring faculty and students from Emerson College together with their foreign counterparts through interdisciplinary collaborative exchange program. Students will work together to document their experience of urban space from both a local as well as a foreign perspective. The groups will both spend two intensive weeks conducting fieldwork including media production and study on location in each of the two cities. We will use networked digital technology to facilitate the exchange and to test if these technologies make it possible to overcome language, time and other barriers. The courses will culminate in a simultaneous public exhibition, in both cities, of the work that was produced. The exhibitions will be linked via the Internet and will provide an opportunity for a discourse between the audiences in both locations.