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Attendance to all presentations and workshops is mandatory for all BA-finals candidates, unless specified.
All monthly general presentations are open to all BA IAD students.
BA finals are open to ZHdK audience and friends.
Table of Content
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Deliveries and deadlines
All document deliveries should be made on the IAD server. See screenshot.
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- Final mentors and jury discussion
- Thesis Students feedback session
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Monthly 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 below for more oral presentation guidelines.
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- Present your final exhibition concept
- Final Observations from user studies
- Present 3 main lessons learned from your process
- Present your contribution to the field
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Thesis focus workshops
1 March 2018: Thesis structure review workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room 4T33
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24 May 2018: Video and Sound review with mentors, Timetable with Daniel Hug and Nicole Foelsterl (optional - only for those who will make videos), room 4K.22.1
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Calendar Overview
| December 2017 | January 2018 | February 2018 | March 2018 |
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12.12
2-page statement | 8-19.01
BA Thesis Concept Seminar - Development of intention (5-page essay)
- Initial project prototype
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Kick off - Progress session 1 | 1.3
Thesis structure review workshop 15.3
Progress session 2
23.3
Written thesis - fully structured and 90% completed
27.3
Exhibition workshop |
- Draft Thesis structure
- Background/context research
- Advanced prototype
- Choice of mentoring team
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| April 2018 | May 2018 | June 2018 |
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11.4
Refresh Video workshop (optional) 17.4
Progress session 3
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Thesis colloquium 7-9.5
Video production (optional)
15.5
Progress session 4 28.5 - BA thesis and project documentation delivered
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Exhibition layout review
7.6
Vernissage
11.6
BA Finals - Practice round
13.6
BA Finals 14.6
BA Finals - Feedback
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Fall 2017 Courses
- Free Flow seminars
21 Sept 'Urban Walk'
10 Oct 'Nature Walk/Teaching exchange'
22 Nov 'Train Ride'
18 Dec 'Time travel'
- Academic Writing Workshop
29 Sept, 5-6 Oct, 13 Oct, 18 Dec
- IAD Theory Course : 'Positions & Rhetorics'
28 Sept - 14 Dec
- BA Thesis Concept Seminar
8-19 January 2018
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Presentation guidelines
Oral Presentation style
- 5-minutes presentation time - unless specified, for monthly group presentations / BA Finals: 10 minutes
- Present in English for monthly group presentations / BA Finals: English or German
- NO reading cards
- Think of your presentation as a performance: try to not learn your text by heart, but rather practice enough that you can present with a natural conversational flow
- Slides are recommended - other formats are possible - please check with us beforehand
- If you do use slide, don’t read all the text that is present on the slides, summarize your thoughts
- Go to the point, be concise, cut the non-essential parts in your speech
- Don’t lose time describing what is presented on the screen (we can understand by looking at the slides)
- Respect the time - don’t be afraid by the “short” time - it’s plenty enough if you keep to the essence of your ideas.
If you use these minutes well, you won’t have to rush through what you have to say. Don’t think that all you have to say matters, you can always be more concise.
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- First slide should feature: Your Name, Project title, School, Department, Mentors, Date
- Second slide is stating in 1-2 short sentences: your project summary (what is it?) and why it’s ground-breaking
- Third slide: describe your project a bit further to explain how it is operating (from a technology perspective or other): what are the interactions within the project, how do users experience it? You can present here as well a very short demo of your project if relevant.
- Related work: in 1-2 slides, present works that are precedents or related.
Related work can pertain to various categories: for instance, related work in technology you’re using, in the aesthetics, in the concept, in literature/science-fiction, in history, in art, in design, etc… It could be many categories, pick the ones that are most relevant to show on your slides and mention up to 1-2 important ones in your oral presentation. Mention how your project pushes the topic further. - Decision-making process
How did you make the decisions you made?
Define the 2-3 key moments in your process. - User-studies
Who are your users, how did you involve them and how their input helped you make decisions for your project? - Reflection
Challenges and pitfalls: what you didn’t manage to do or what you could have done better - Potential impact & future directions
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Feedback/Grading/Review