Point of View (3)

* Still digging the responses to April’s Savor of the Month prompt: Rust. Join in here!Today’s post is part of a series. Every year I teach a five-week class on “point of view,” for the School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design program. For Supporters, I’m reprinting a series of posts about the class — the assignments, the thinking behind the class, how it shaped and has since been shaped by TAoN, and other fun behind-the-scenes stuff. The first installment is here, the second is here. Previously I’ve described how I try to prod students to think on and start to articulate what their work is about through a set of preliminary exercises, followed by writing a full-on personal manifesto. The first year I taught my Point of View class at the School of Visual Arts, that’s where the exercise ended — there was some work put into refining the written manifesto, but that was it. But the second year I changed things up and added a new step. It was inspired, if I recall correctly, by the last…