BA concept seminar structure:
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- 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 1 | Monday 7.1 | Tuesday 8.1 | Wednesday 9.1 | Thursday 10.1 | Friday 11.1 |
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| Morning 9.30 - 12.00 | Brief Introduction about the module and quick keywords round Exercise 1: 20 ways of description (kf, jb) | Independent Study | Exercise 3: Design Space (kf, jb) Mentoring on request (kf) | Independent Study 11- 12 (jb) | Exercise 4: 10 ways of manifestation (jb) |
| Afternoon 13.30 - 17.00 | 13-16 Exercise 2: Topic Space (kf, jb) | 13-15 Individual Discussions | 15.00 Presentation: topic and design space | 13-16 (jb) | Preparing for the field: road map presentations (jb) |
| Week 2 | Monday 14.1 | Tuesday 15.1 | Wednesday 16.1 | Thursday 17.1 | Friday 18.1 |
| Morning 9.30 - 12.30 | Thesis structure presentation and milestones overview (jb) Field / Practice Study | Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (kf) | Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (kf, jb) | Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (kf) | Final Presentations: progress and 'pretotype' (jb, kf) |
| Afternoon 13.30 - 17.00 | Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (jb) | Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (kf)
| Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (kf, jb) | Field / Practice Study Mentoring on request (kf) | 17.00 3-5 page essay delivery |
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Exercise 1: 20 ways of description
Write down and/or sketch out twenty ways to define our your topics on post its and later sort them into categories we found fitting. Define two or three most important statements.
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Select 10 ways of executing your ideas and exhibiting them.