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...Stopforth were teaching a Justice section or giving a Biochemistry lecture, these elements might not matter. But his course, VES 113, “Altered Landscapes” is one of Harvard’s few classes to be taught mostly outdoors. Each week, the class boards a shuttle to the Forest Hills Cemetery, where they have obtained permission to create landscape-based artworks. As Stopforth puts it, “We experience the environment moment to moment, for the pure physical pleasure of being...
...However, for the students of Altered Landscapes, this sunny afternoon marks one of their dwindling working days. As Stopforth says, “there’s this recognition we all have that the days are running out.” Soon the class will be held indoors more frequently, and students will work with the relics they have collected from the site...
Already, the Carpenter Center’s fourth floor studio is full of transplants. Delicate flowering branches are arranged on tables. Rohny Escareño ’04-’06 uses pushpins to affix mushrooms to the studio’s hematite walls. (Stopforth jokes, “He hopes they will grow there.”) On another table sit the products of the class’ first project: balls of clay into which the class members molded blades of grass, berries, and pinecones from the site...
Recalling times when advisers were not even aware of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, DUS Paul Stopforth says, “I do think that those people, students or tutors, who are responsible for advising in the Houses, they would need to know something about all these departments at Harvard...
According to New, the English department asks every member of the faculty to advise at least one student thesis—and the Visual and Environmental Studies department asks its own to advise three or four, according to DUS Paul Stopforth...