BA concept seminar structure:
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- Project Description Update
This 2-3-page text should answer the following questions - since December how did it evolve?
- 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?
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 8.1 | Tuesday 9.1 | Wednesday 10.1 | Thursday 11.1 | Friday 12.1 |
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| Morning 9.00 - 12.00 (unless otherwise noted) | Brief Introduction about the module and quick keywords round Exercise 1: 20 ways of description | Exercise 3: Design Area | Input/workshop - storytelling | Mentoring (js) | Develop prototype |
| Afternoon 13.00 - 17.00 | Exercise 2: Topic Area | 1413.30 00 Quick round design area | Develop prototype | Develop prototype | 14.0030 (jb, js) |
| Week 2 | Monday 15.1 | Tuesday 16.1 | Wednesday 17.1 | Thursday 18.1 | Friday 19.1 |
| Morning 9.00 - 12.00 | Develop narrative | Mentoring storytelling | Develop narrative | Develop narrative /Field Study | Presentations 2: |
| Afternoon 13.00 - 17.00 | send choice of mentoring team by 17:00 | Mentoring on request (js)
| Mentoring on request (jb) Develop narrative | Work on final assignments |
Exercises
Exercise 1: 20 ways of description
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Identify the two or three most important dimensions of your topic area. This will be your design area. Sketch quickly 50 ideas to populate your design area. Place them on your design area in relation to criteria and parameters (sketches, photos or collages).
Also think of how you want to execute your ideas and exhibit them.
Exercise 4: Develop 2-3 "How might we" - Questions
Develop two to three "How might we" - Questions!