Thesis year milestones 2019-2020

Mentors

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

Coordinator: Martin Dušek

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

2–3 April 2020

• Hackathon (not specifically BA-thesis related)

23 March 2020, 17.00

• Chapter Concept
• Advanced prototype

24 April 2020, 17.00

• Chapter Project Development

6 May 2020

• Mentoring Storytelling (Nicole Fölsterl)

20 May 2020

• Mentoring Film editing (Nicole Fölsterl)

22 May 2020

• Final video delivery on server

25 May 2020, 09:00

• BA thesis full text delivered on server 

22 May 2020, 09:00–18:00, tbc

• 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 

9 June 2020, time tbc, exhibition space

• Practice session for BA Finals

10 June 2020, 09:00–12:00, exhibition space 

• BA Finals 
• Mentors and Jury discussion (room and 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)

15 June 2020, 09:00

• Final documentation 

tbc

• Präsentation/Jurierung Förderpreis. Teilnahme von Beiräten und Gönner

tbc

• Führung Kollegium Propädeutikum

tbc

• Führung für Lehrpersonen und Berufsberatungen

tbc

• ZHdK interne Führung

19 June 2020

• Diplomfeier (detailed information will follow)

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.

Wednesday 19 February 2020: Kick-off - Progress session 1 "Background and Related Work", 09:00–12:00 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

Wednesday 25 March 2020: Progress session 2, "Early Findings and Prototypes", 09:00–12:00, 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?

Wednesday 29 April 2020: Progress session 3, "Observations and Lessons learned", 09:00–12:00 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 (draft)

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

10 January 2020: Refresh Workshop for Participatory and Design Ethnographic Methods

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Calendar Overview (draft)