Thesis year milestones 2019-2020

Mentors

Prof. Jürgen Spath / Florian Bruggisser
Dr. Joëlle Bitton / Verena Ziegler
Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinovic / Luke Franzke

Coordinator: Martin Dusek

Attendance

Attendance to all presentations is mandatory for all BA-finals candidates.
All monthly general presentations are open to all BA IAD students.
BA finals are open to ZHdK audience and friends.

Table of Content

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

Deliverables and deadlines

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

13 December 2019, 17.00

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

17 January 2020, 17.00 (BA Thesis Concept Seminar - final session)

• Development of intention (3-5-page essay)
• Initial project 'pretotype' & video
  
  
• Choice of mentoring team (send 1st & 2nd choice to Martin Dusek)

21 February 2020, 17.00

• 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

23 March 2020, 17.00

• Chapter Concept
• Advanced prototype
  
  

24 April 2020, 17.00

• Chapter Project Development

13 May 2020, 17.00

• BA thesis full text delivered on server 
  
  

22 May 2020, 09,00 - 18.00, Room 4.E08

• Thesis Colloquium 
  Each student meets the 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).
  

27 May 2020, 17.00

• Full BA thesis text and documents 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.

2 June 2020, 14.00 - 18.00

• Visit through Exhibition, possible adjustments of scenography
  
  

4 June 2020, 17.00 - 22.00

• Exhibition Vernissage 
  
  

10 June 2020, time tbc, exhibition space

• Practice session for BA Finals
  
  

11 June 2020, 10.00 - 15.30, exhibition space 

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

12 June 2020: 09.00 - 16.00, tbc

• Final mentors and jury discussion (09.00-10.00)
• Thesis Students feedback session (13.00-16.00)
• Sommerfest (17.00-dawn)

tbc

• Präsentation/Jurierung Förderpreis. Teilnahme von Beiräten und Gönner

tbc

• Führung Kollegium Propädeutikum

tbc

• Führung für Lehrpersonen und Berufsberatungen

tbc

• ZHdK interne Führung

tbc

• Diplomfeier

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 presentation guidelines.

20 February 2020: Kick-off - Progress session 1 "Background and Related Work", 10.00 - 12:00//13.30-15.00, room tbc

• 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

25 March 2020: Progress session 2, "Early Findings and Prototypes", 09:30 - 12:30, room tbc

• 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?

29 April 2020: Progress session 3, "Observations and Lessons learned", 10.00 - 13:00, room tbc

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

Thesis focus workshops

Attendance to workshops are required but it may depend in some circumstances on your focus and can be assessed by mentors.

5 March 2020: Refresh Workshop for Participatory and Design Ethnographic Methods, 09:30 - 12.30

13 March 2020: Thesis structure review workshop, 09.30 - 12.00, room tbc

13 March 2020: Sound mentoring, 13.00 - 17.00 (If your project has a sound component or if mentor Matthias Kappeler thinks that you might need a discussion on that aspect), room tbd

26 March 2020: Exhibition workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room tbc

6 April 2020: Refresh Sound for Video workshop, 13.00 - 16.00, room tbc

7 May 2020: Refresh Video workshop, 09.30 - 12.30, room tbc

14 May 2020: Video Production, photo studio room 3H.18, Details/Timetable directly distributed by Nicole Foelsterl

21 May 2020: Video and Sound review with mentors, Timetable with Matthias Kappeler and Nicole Foelsterl, room tbc

Calendar Overview