Thesis year milestones 2018-2019

Mentors teams

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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

• Deliveries and deadlines
• Monthly group presentations
• Thesis focus workshops
• Calendar Overview

Deliveries and deadlines

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

12 December 2018, 17.00

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

18 January 2018, 17.00 (BA Thesis Concept Seminar - final session)

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

End February 2018, 17.00 (Kick-off semester - progress session)

• Thesis structure (2 pages)
• Chapter: Background/context research (literature review and related work, situating work in relation to theory & practice, field of contribution). 
• Advanced prototype
• Choice of mentoring team

Mid-March 2018, 17.00

• Chapter: User-studies
  

Mid May 2019, 17.00

• Full BA thesis (part A and part B) delivered (including updates and rewrites, with final reflection on practice)
  • 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.

End May 2019, 17.00

• Full BA thesis (part A and part B) delivered (including updates and rewrites, with final reflection on practice)
  • 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.

End May 2018, 09,00 - 18.00, Room tba

• Thesis Colloquium 
  Each student meets the theory 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).
  

June 2019, 14.00 - 18.00

• Visit through Exhibition with mentors
  
  

June 2019, 16.00 - 22.00

• Exhibition Vernissage 
  
  

June 2019, 10.00 -16.00 (in the exhibition space)

• Practice session for BA Finals
  
  

June 2019, 08.30 - 16.00, in exhibition space (afterwards discussion for mentors room tba, 16.00 - 19.00)

• BA Finals 
• Mentors and Jury discussion 
  
  

June 2019: 10.00 - 16.00, room 4K.22.1

• Final mentors and jury discussion (10.00-12.00)
• Thesis Students feedback session (13.00-16.00)

3 group presentations

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 February 2019: Kick-off - Progress session 1 "Background and Related Work", 10.00 - 17:00, room tba

• 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 2019: Progress session 2, "Early Findings and Prototypes", 10.00 - 17:00, room tba

• Advanced research from user studies
• 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-May 2018: Progress session 3, "Observations and Lessons learned", 10.00 - 17:00, room tba

• Present your final exhibition concept 
• Final Observations from user studies
• Present 3 main lessons learned from your process
• Present your contribution to the field

Thesis focus workshops

1 March 2018: Thesis structure review workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room 4T33

20 March 2018: Sound mentoring, 9.00 - 17.00 (If your project has a sound component or if mentor Daniel Hug thinks that you might need a discussion on that aspect)

27 March 2018: Exhibition workshop, 09.30 - 12.30

11 April 2018: Refresh Video workshop, 09.30 - 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 2018: Video Production, photo studio room 3H.18, Details/Timetable directly distributed by Nicole Foelsterl (optional - only for those who will make videos)

24 May 2018: Video and Sound review with mentors, Timetable with Daniel Hug and Nicole Foelsterl (optional - only for those who will make videos), room 4K.22.1

Calendar Overview