Mentors
Dr. Joëlle Bitton |
Fall 2017
- Free Flow seminars, once a month (21 Sept 'Urban Walk', 10 Oct 'Nature Walk/Teaching exchange', 22 Nov / half a day 'Train Ride', 18 Dec 'Time travel' )
- Academic Writing Workshop (4 days, Sept-Oct, 1 day Dec)
- 12th December 2017: Deadline to receive a "statement & project disposition" (2 pages)
The student finds their own voice and makes a stand: what contribution they want to make? - 8-19 January 2018: BA concept seminar objective: Development of intention (5-page essay) and prototype of project
- what does it mean to make a statement, a contribution
- thesis expansion from thesis disposition - idea generation, translation, execution
- quick prototype sessions
- prototype = pretotype
- testing out scale
BA concept seminar structure:
Week 1 | Monday 8.1 | Tuesday 9.1 | Wednesday 10.1 | Thursday 11.1 | Friday 12.1 |
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Morning | Introduction about the module Presentation of Intents / Ideas Exercise 1 | Exercise 2 | Ad-hoc lecturers presentations based on student projects Exercise 3 | Independent Study | Presentations 1 |
Afternoon | Review of exercise | Independent Study | Independent Study | Independent Study | Independent Study |
Week 2 | Monday 15.1 | Tuesday 16.1 | Wednesday 17.1 | Thursday 18.1 | Friday 19.1 |
Morning | Exercice 4 | Presentations 2 | Exercice 5 | Independent Study | Presentations 3 Essays |
Afternoon | Independent Study | Independent Study | Independent Study | Independent Study |
Spring 2018
- End February / Start of semester:
- Presentation of advanced prototype and of background-context research (literature review or related work, situating work in relation to theory & practice, field of contribution).
- Draft of thesis structure.
- Choice of mentoring team - Once-a-month general in-class presentation, advancement of project as well as theoretical research (March/April/May)
- Exhibition workshop (March)
- Documentation workshop (March)
- Video workshop (April) - optional (only for those who will make videos)
- 23rd March 2018: Written thesis - fully structured and 90% completed
- April: Exhibition layout draft review
- 31st May 2018: BA thesis and project documentation delivered, including updates and rewrites
- 3rd June: Exhibition layout review
- BA diploma presentation and review