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BA concept seminar structure:

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Dr. Joëlle Bitton
Prof. Jürgen Späth

Guest instructor:

Nicole Foelsterl

Office hours by appointment

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Grades will be based on class participation, documentation (journal) and final work. 
Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation. 
Regular attendance is required. Two or more unexcused absences will affect the final grade. Arriving late on more than one occasion will also affect the grade.

Prototype  30%

Storytelling 20% Storytelling (video) 30% 

Prototype  20%

Project Description 20% 

Journal Documentation 20% 

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Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  

(5) Deliverables

  • Storytelling

The experience you want to create should be presented in a video format. 

  • Prototype/Mock-up

The prototype is the manifestation of your ideas into a service, a product, a method, a user's experience, etc.

  • Storytelling

The experience you want to create should be presented in a video format. 

  • Project Description 

This 3-page text should answer the following questions :

  • what is the context, topic, problem?
  • who is your audience / participants?
  • who will be touched by your design (which people/animals/plants, which locations, which systems, which ecologies)?
  • what do you want to create and how it should work? 
  • what values and potential do you want to address / generate? 

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). 

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Week 1Monday 6.1Tuesday 7.1Wednesday 8.1Thursday 9.1Friday 10.1 
Morning
9.30 - 12.00
(unless otherwise noted)

10.00 Brief Introduction about the module and quick keywords round 

Exercise 1: 20 ways of description

(jb, js)

Independent Study

Exercise 3: Design Space

(jb, js)



Independent Study

10- 12
Individual Discussions
(20 mn / studentjs)

(jb)

Exercise 4: 10 ways of manifestation 

(jbInput - storytelling

(nf)

Afternoon
13.30 00 - 17.00

13-16

Exercise 2: Topic Space

(jb, js)
13-17

Individual Discussions
(20 mn / student)(js)

15.,00 Presentation: topic and design space 
(js, jb)
13-16

Individual Discussions
(20 mn / student)(jb)

Preparing for the field: road map presentationsExercise 4: 10 ways of manifestation 
(jb)


Week 2Monday 14.1Tuesday 15.1Wednesday 16.1Thursday 17.1Friday 18.1
Morning
9.30 - 12.30

Thesis structure presentation and milestones overview (js)

00

Field / Practice Study

Field / Practice Study

Mentoring on request (js)

Mentoring storytelling
(jb, js, nf)




 

Field / Practice StudyMentoring on request (js, jb) 


Field / Practice StudyMentoring on request (js) 


Final Presentations:
'video & prototype' & video
(jb, js)

Afternoon
13.30 00 - 17.00

Mentoring on request
(jb)

Field / Practice Study

Field / Field / Practice Study

Mentoring on request (js)

 

Practice StudyMentoring on request (js, jb)


Field / Practice StudyMentoring on request (js)


17.00 3-page essay delivery

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