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Thesis year milestones

Thesis year milestones

Jun 11, 2018


Mentors teams

Dr. Joëlle Bitton / Luke Franzke
Dr. Björn Franke / Clemens Winkler
Dr. Antonio Scarponi / Verena Ziegler
Prof. Jürgen Späth / Mona Neubauer

Consulting mentors:
Nicole Foelsterl (Video + Ethnography)
Dr. Daniel Hug (Sound)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Buurman (Theory)
Joël Gähwiler (Tech)

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

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




12 December 2017, 17.00

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


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

  • Development of intention (5-page essay)

  • Initial project prototype

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

  • Draft thesis structure

  • Background/context research (literature review and related work, situating work in relation to theory & practice, field of contribution). 

  • Advanced prototype

  • Choice of mentoring team


23 March 2018, 17.00

  • Written thesis - fully structured and almost completed

03 May 2018, 11.30 - 19.00, Room 4.T30

  • 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).

28 May 2018, 17.00

  • Full BA thesis (part A and part B) delivered (including updates and rewrites, with final reflection on practice) as a digital copy on the IAD server by 17.00.

4 June 2018, 14.00 - 18.00

  • Visit through Exhibition with mentors

  • Please hand in two hard copies of your thesis to Karin Luginbühl, IAD office room 4C.01, until 14.00.

7 June 2018, 16.00 - 22.00

  • Exhibition Vernissage 

11 June 2018, 10.00 -16.00 (in the exhibition space)

  • Practice session for BA Finals

13 June 2018, 08.30 - 16.00, in exhibition space (afterwards discussion for mentors room 5T.07, 16.00 - 17.30)

  • BA Finals 

  • Mentors and Jury discussion 

14 June 2018: 10.00 - 16.00, room 4K.22.1