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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 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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Deliverables and deadlines

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

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12 December 20172018, 17.00

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


19 18 January 20182019, 17.00 (BA Thesis Concept Seminar - final session)

  • Development of intention (3-5-page essay)
  • Initial project prototype

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  • 'pretotype'

  • Choice of mentoring team (send 1st & 2nd choice to Martin Dusek)

21 February 2019, 17.00 (Kick-off semester - progress session)

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  • 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
  • Choice of mentoring team

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23 March 2019, 17.00

  • Chapter Concept
  • Advanced prototype

23 April 2019, 17.00

  • Chapter Project Development

13 May 2019, 17.00

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  • BA thesis full text delivered on server 

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

  • Thesis Colloquium 
    Each student meets the

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  • 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).

28 27 May 20182019, 17.00

  • Visit through Exhibition with mentors
  • Full BA thesis (part A and part B) text and documents delivered (including updates and rewrites, with final reflection on practice) as a digital copy on the IAD server by 17.00.

      4 June 2018, 14.00 - 18.00

        • 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.

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      7 June 201800

      • Visit through Exhibition, possible adjustments of scenography

      6 June 2019, 16.00 - 22.00

      • Exhibition Vernissage 

      11 June 20182019, 1009.00 -16.00 (in the 11.30 exhibition space)

      • Practice session for BA Finals

      13 12 June 20182019, 0810.30 00 - 1615.0030, in exhibition space (afterwards discussion for mentors room 5T.07, 16.00 - 17.30)

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      14 June 2018: 10 

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

      13 June 2019: 09.00 - 16.00, room 4K4.22.1E08

      • Final mentors and jury discussion (1009.00-1210.00)
      • 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

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      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.

      End 21 February 2019: Kick-off - Progress session 1 "Background and Related Work", 10.00 - 17:12:00//13.30-15.00, room tba5.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

      Beginning April 22 March 2019: Progress session 2, "Early Findings and Prototypes", 10.00 - 17:00, room tba09:30 - 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?

      Mid-3 May 20182019: Progress session 3, "Observations and Lessons learned", 10.00 - 1713:00, room tba5.T04

      • Present your final exhibition concept concept and project
      • 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 2018Attendance 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 - 12.3000, room 4T334T30

      20 14 March 20182019: Sound mentoring, 913.00 - 17.00 (If your project has a sound component or if mentor Daniel Hug Matthias Kappeler thinks that you might need a discussion on that aspect), room tbd

      27 26 March 20182019: Exhibition workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room tbd11

      5 April 20182019: Refresh Sound for Video workshop, 0913.30 00 - 12.30 (optional - only for those who will make videos), room 5T.04

      11 April 2018: Refresh Sound for Video workshop, 13.00 - 16.00 (optional - only for those who will make videos), room 4K.22.1

      7-9 May 201816.00, 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 (optional - only for those who will make videos)24 May 2018Foelsterl

      21 May 2019: Video and Sound review with mentors, Timetable with Daniel Hug and Nicole Foelsterl (optional - only for those who will make videos), room 4K.22.1with Matthias Kappeler and Nicole Foelsterl, room tbd

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

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      Calendar Overview

      December
      2017
      2018January
      2018
      2019February 
      2018
      2019March 
      2018
      2019
      12.12
      2-page statement
      8

      7-

      19

      18.01
      BA Thesis Concept Seminar

      • Development of intention (3-5-page essay)
      • Initial project
      prototype20.02 
      • prototype
      • Choice of mentoring team

      21.2
      Kick off - Progress session 1 

      1

      6.3 
      Refresh workshop ethnography methods

      14.3 morning
      Thesis structure review

      workshop15

      check

      14.3 afternoon
      Sound Mentoring

      22.3
      Progress session 2

      23.3 
      Written thesis - fully structured and 90% completed
      27
      • Chapter Concept delivery 
      • Advanced project 

      26.3
      Exhibition workshop

      • Draft Thesis structure
      • Background/context research 
      • Advanced prototype
      Choice of mentoring team
      April 
      2018
      2019
      May 2018
      May 2019June 
      2018
      2019
      11

      5.4
      Refresh Sound for Video workshop

      (optional)17.4

      22.4 

      • Chapter Project Development delivery

      3.5
      Progress session 3

      3
      • Advanced project

      7.5
      Refresh Video workshop 

      Thesis colloquium7-9.5
      Video production (optional)
      15.5
      Progress session 4

      28.5

      BA

      13.5 

      • Thesis text version delivered

      14.5
      Video production 

      14.5.
      Video Mentorings: Half day

      21.5.
      Video and Sound Mentorings: Half day

      23.5
      Thesis colloquium

      27.5

      • Complete thesis and project documentation delivered
      4




      3.6 
      Exhibition layout review


      7

      4.6.
      Video Mentorings: Whole day

      6.6 
      Vernissage

      11.6 
      BA Finals - Practice round

      13


      12.6 
      BA Finals

      14

      13.6 
      BA Finals - Feedback