Thesis year milestones 2018-2019

Mentors

Dr. Joëlle Bitton / Verena Ziegler
Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinovic / Luke Franzke
Prof. Jürgen Spath / Clemens Winkler

Consulting:

Joël Gähwiler (Tech)
Nicole Foelsterl (Video+ethnography)
Matthias Kappeler (Sound)

Coordinator:

Martin Dusek

Attendance

Attendance to all presentations is mandatory for all BA-finals candidates.
All monthly general presentations are open to all BA IAD students.
BA finals are open to ZHdK audience and friends.

Table of Content

• Deliverables and deadlines
• Monthly group presentations
• Thesis focus workshops
• Calendar Overview

Deliverables and deadlines

All document deliveries should be made on the IAD server. See screenshot.

12 December 2018, 17.00

• Statement & project disposition (2-page essay)
  Make a stand: what contribution do you want to make?

18 January 2019, 17.00 (BA Thesis Concept Seminar - final session)

• Development of intention (3-5-page essay)
• Initial project 'pretotype'
  
  
• Choice of mentoring team (send 1st & 2nd choice to Martin Dusek)

21 February 2019, 17.00

• Thesis structure (Structure of your thesis, commented - 2 pages)
• Chapter Research field: Background/context, literature review and related work, situating work in relation to theory & practice, field of contribution. 
• Advanced prototype

23 March 2019, 17.00

• Chapter Concept
• Advanced prototype
  
  

23 April 2019, 17.00

• Chapter Project Development

13 May 2019, 17.00

• BA thesis full text delivered on server 
  
  

23 May 2019, 09,00 - 18.00, Room 4.E08

• Thesis Colloquium 
  Each student meets the main mentors together for a 20-minutes session. The student explain briefly what their findings are (max. 5 min) and then we have a discussion (mentors ask questions) about the work and the process (15 min).
  

27 May 2019, 17.00

• Full BA thesis text and documents delivered (including updates and rewrites, with final reflection on practice)
  • Please hand in two hard copies of your thesis to Karin Luginbühl, IAD office room 4C.01, until 17.00.
  • Digital copy on the IAD server by 17.00.

3 June 2019, 14.00 - 18.00

• Visit through Exhibition, possible adjustments of scenography
  
  

6 June 2019, 16.00 - 22.00

• Exhibition Vernissage 
  
  

11 June 2019, 09.00 -11.30 exhibition space

• Practice session for BA Finals
  
  

12 June 2019, 10.00 - 15.30, exhibition space 

• BA Finals 
• Mentors and Jury discussion (room 4D11, 15.30 - 18.30, time tbc)
  
  

13 June 2019: 09.00 - 16.00, room 4.E08

• Final mentors and jury discussion (09.00-10.00)
• Thesis Students feedback session (13.00-16.00)
• Sommerfest (17.00-dawn)

18 June 2019: 14.00 

• Präsentation/Jurierung Förderpreis. Teilnahme von Beiräten und Gönner

19 June 2019: 11.00-12.00

• Führung Kollegium Propädeutikum

19 June 2019: 16.30-18.00

• Führung für Lehrpersonen und Berufsberatungen

20 June 2019: 12.00 

• ZHdK interne Führung

21 June 2019: 11.00 MA /14.00 BA

• Diplomfeier

3 group presentations

Presentation of advancement of project as well as theoretical research, together with all students and all mentors.
Presentation should all be 5 minutes long with 10 minutes for feedback and discussion.
Format is free - although slides are most useful to structure your presentation. See presentation guidelines.

21 February 2019: Kick-off - Progress session 1 "Background and Related Work", 10.00 - 12:00//13.30-15.00, room 5.T04

• Present status of your thesis concept
• Analysis of existing situation, experience or technology
• Present related work and how you situate your project in comparison
• Present advanced prototype

22 March 2019: Progress session 2, "Early Findings and Prototypes", 09:30 - 12:30, room 5.K07

• Advanced research from user studies if applicable
• Present data and main findings 
• How will this inform your concept, problem or design opportunity? Based on your findings, inform or enhance your concept.
  
  
• What kind of prototype is the most suitable for your project?
• What kind of prototype helped you find the main findings/observations?
• What do you hope to achieve with your prototype?

3 May 2019: Progress session 3, "Observations and Lessons learned", 10.00 - 13:00, room 5.T04

• Present your final exhibition concept and project
• Final Observations from user studies
• Present 3 main lessons learned from your process
• Present your contribution to the field

Thesis focus workshops

Attendance to workshops are required but it may depend in some circumstances on your focus and can be assessed by mentors.

6 March 2019: Refresh Workshop for Participatory and Design Ethnographic Methods, 09:30 - 12.30

14 March 2019: Thesis structure review workshop, 09.30 - 12.00, room 4T30

14 March 2019: Sound mentoring, 13.00 - 17.00 (If your project has a sound component or if mentor Matthias Kappeler thinks that you might need a discussion on that aspect), room tbd

26 March 2019: Exhibition workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room tbd

5 April 2019: Refresh Sound for Video workshop, 13.00 - 16.00, room tbd

7 May 2019: Refresh Video workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room tbd

14 May 2019: Video Production, photo studio room 3H.18, Details/Timetable directly distributed by Nicole Foelsterl

21 May 2019: Video and Sound review with mentors, Timetable with Matthias Kappeler and Nicole Foelsterl, room tbd

4 June 2019: Video Mentoring, whole day, room tbd

Calendar Overview