The course aims to provide an overview of contemporary art and design in Rome through direct onsite experience in studios, galleries, and institutions, as well as dialogs with collectors, curators, critics, museum directors, and international academies. Students will interact with, explore, and analyze the practices of active practitioners within the Roman milieu. Students will con- sider their own practice as it is situated in the city and as it relates to art and design stakeholders at large. The spheres of public and private art and design spaces will be analyzed in terms of their cultural, social, and political functions to aid students in integrating this knowledge into positioning their personal creative output. The course invites students to consider through real world experience how various institutions and actors play different roles in influencing the context of art and design production, both locally and on the global scale.