Relational art is a broad tendency in contemporary art that primarily relies on performative and interactivity strategies to solicit responses of other people. The artist constructs a framework for the emergence of new social relations. The artist facilitates the creation of alternative ways to live together and structure social space and time, with the aim of transforming everyday life. Using various artistic media, students will produce experimental works that solicit audience participation and generate effective social change. This course will be contextualized with reference to the history of participatory art since the second world war, including the Situationists and urban events, Fluxus Happenings and experiments, environmental art, locative games, activist art, feminist art, etc. Additional context will be based on theoretical readings, including work by Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and Nicolas Bourriaud. Those readings and historical materials will encourage students to think critically about such questions as: the meaning of the concept of “participation”; the role of the author in participatory art; and the connection between digital media, interactive art and social change.