BA concept seminar structure:
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- what is the context, topic, problem?
- who are the audience / participants?
- who will be impacted by your design (which people/animals/plants, which locations, which systems&infrastructures, which ecologies)?
- what do you want to create and how it should work?
- what values and potential do you want to address / generate?
- what are the other projects in this field? what gap are you filling?
The essay expands the thesis disposition with observations and conclusions drawn from the two weeks BA concept seminar.
You may use a diversity of sources and bibliography (classified by genre: book, book chapter, journal article, conference article, academic thesis, newspaper article, web article, etc).
In addition, add your up-to-date mapping of related works.
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| Week 1 | Monday 1.12 | Tuesday 2.12 | Wednesday 3.12 | Thursday 4.12 | Friday 5.12 |
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| Morning 9.00 - 12.30 (unless otherwise noted) | 9.00 Brief Introduction about the module and quick keywords round 9.30 Exercise 1: 20 ways of description in 20 minutes 10.00 Start Exercise 2: Topic Mapping (Lotus Blossom method) 11.10-12.00: Exercise 3: Ideation Speed dating / table sketching
| 9.00 10.00 Exercise 5:
| 9.00 Mentoring (js) Prepare in advance exercise 6: Develop 2-3 "How might we" - Questions
| Develop prototype | Prepare next assignments |
| Afternoon 13.30 - 17.00 (unless otherwise noted) | Embodied Exercise 4: field study/observations/interviews - put notes on Miro board by 18.00 | Continue exercise 2, 4.. Develop prototype - put notes on Miro board by 18.00 | Develop prototype
| 14.00 (jb, js) | Minor |
| Week 2 | Monday 8.12 | Tuesday 9.12 | Wednesday 10.12 | Thursday 11.12 | Friday 12.12 |
| Morning 9.00 - 12.00 | Input/workshop - storytelling send choice of mentoring team by 17:00 | Mentoring storytelling - Prepare storyboard (on Zoom) | Mentoring on request (jb) | 11.00 Presentations 2: Develop narrative | Work on final assignments |
| Afternoon 13.00 - 17.00 | Develop narrative /Field Study | Mentoring on request (js) Develop narrative | Continued Presentations 2: | Minor |
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Write down and/or sketch out twenty ways to define your thesis project as if a journalist would write an article about ityou would send a pitch to a curator, or a publication to a conference: it has to have several elements of description, ie. "this brainstorm app provides a way to schedule todo lists"; "this service for elderly supports their morning routing"; "this public space interactive installation connects people from two cities at a distance", etc...
Write on post its and later sort them into categories. Define two or three most important statements.
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5-minutes exchange around the table, talk, be concise in your feedback, draw & move fast...
Exercise 4: Embodied Exercise: Observation / Field inquiry
Find out through a quick observation and field inquiry some elements that could inspire the directions you take. *It could also be in the form of bodystorming, auto-ethnography, role playing, short workshop with participants, etc... Post photos & findings on Miro Board.
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Based on findings from previous exercises, make a data visualisation of the essentials of your thesis project: include stakeholders, contradictions, assumptions, skills, actionable moments, creative & unique 'selling points', workshop ideas, etc... Use all the tools of a data vis: graphics, colours, structure of info, diagrams, etc..
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