SIG 301 — How Scenes Form

Culture & Signal · 1 units · Required core — everyone takes it

The Two Registers

• Catalog register: Sociology of cultural movements — subcultures, scenes, and innovation diffusion.
• Teaching frame: Subcultures as R&D labs: punk, hip-hop, skate, surf, internet scenes — how small groups invent what everyone uses later.

Outcomes Served

• Breadth of Mind
• Judgment

What This Course Is About

Every technology and art form you love was invented by a small scene before it was an industry. How those rooms work, studied closely.

The Made Thing

A field study of a living scene — documented from inside.

The Daily Path

One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.

• Day 01 — to be written
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Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.