spatial design@massey

Please work into your original live google doc. Date each section of new writing. locate it at the top of the doc. Please share your doc with Ant also

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Work for week 9 + 10: 9.30AM THURSDAY 17 May: group discussion with Ant and Amanda and 1:1 tutorials with Amanda focused on your theory summary, makings summary and essay diagram. Publish your draft CRIT PRESENTATION so you can get some responses from Ant and Amanda

Tuesday 15 May 9AM: PUBLISH a THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK or SUMMARY (detailed summary of a key piece of writing from your key theorist/s, including quotes that you discuss etc) to your live google doc, complete with IMAGES OF YOUR MAKINGS FOR THE FINAL CRIT. Include your ESSAY STRUCTURE DIAGRAM, ie the summary of subtitles that helps to communicate your intent.

Thursday 17 May: publish [or email] your draft critique presentation – with project ‘reason’ or aim, theory quotes, your key makings. Remember that pdfs or powerpoints are linear narratives and people get lost in them – establish your main points as subtitles [may be the same as your essays] and have them at the top as maps for the direction of the talk. Time  your presentation to ensure you don’t go over 5 minutes.

Draft Critique Schedule Friday 25 May 10am-1.30pm. 5 min student presentation / 5+ minute response from critics

Performative space:

Margarita

Jess

Josh

Rita

Annaliese

Frith

Emma

Hapticity:

Arabella

Bec

Mathilde

Virtuality:

Oliver

Vision/perception:

Sarah

Jasmin

1) 400-500 WORD THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: articulate your theoretical base with particular reference to one book or passage. Quote this text and describe what it means for your approach. Use another theorist or two if necessary to help unpack the ideas. Use this to help you articulate your approach in the Critique – but critically it allows you and your tutors to ASSESS WHETHER YOUR THEORY IS DRIVING YOUR MAKING AND IS EMBEDDED IN IT in a radical and interesting way.

2) 1500 WORD DRAFT / 8 May week 9:

a) have a title

b) Start with an ESSAY STRUCTURE DIAGRAM at the top: INTRO [what is the key ideas/s, main theorist/s, main other makers-practitioners, your work]; SECTION 1[ for eg what is your key idea/theory base]; SECTION 2 [for eg what is your second key idea or maker/practitioner]; SECTION 3 [for eg how does your work capture/express your theoretical frame]; CONCLUSION [summarise key ideas/makings]

c) include sub-titles

d) try to avoid generalizing statements – instead be specific and back up your assertions with quotes

note – crit feedback from crit 2 loaded to your first R+D documents. Please just work into the one original R+D document so that I don’t have to keep tracking new documents. Put newest writing at the top.

updated schedule:

week 8: MAKING + WRITING; Tuesday making workshop with Ant; Thursday tutorials with Ant; writing feedback from Amanda

week 9: MAKING + WRITING; Tuesday self directed, hand-in part 4 draft; Thursday tutorial with Ant [making]

week 10: MAKING + WRITING: Tuesday writing feedback with Amanda; Thursday tutorial with Ant. Submit a pdf of your draft crit presentation [makings and theoretical frame] on Thursday if you want feedback from Amanda

week 11: CRIT FOCUS; Tuesday crit pdf feedback with Amanda; Thursday practice presentations with Ant; Friday Final Critique [Amanda/Ant/Mark/Maria]

week 12: WRITING FOCUS; Tuesday crit overview and semester 2 tutorial with Ant; Thursday writing feedback with Amanda

week 13: Thursday 5pm, Final document, pdf dropboxed [under 20MB]

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week 7: THURSDAY CRIT R+D; 12.30-2.30

Just a reminder that we’ll be having some pretty informal crits or feedback sessions for R+D on Thursday. They are only short crits so pecha kucha style will be important [ie you get around 5 minutes to present and about 5 minutes feedback]. with Ant and Paul James from VUW. Focus will be on presenting some updated work/makings as per the feedback from last crit and clearly establishing your theoretical framework.

STUDIO 5 DESIGN CHARETTE: WK 5; you’ve all got a strong concept for your work and a conceptual driver for the language. This week will be about working intensively to outline the design of your intervention – focus on a systems diagram that outlines the big picture ideas; and some very conceptual perspectives that show people using the intervention, and again show the innovation of the scheme. 

Aim to output the following for an in-class presentation on Thursday:

1) location plan – that shows the location of your intervention in relation to the rest of the class

2) site plan – that shows the site and immediate adjoining sites

3) systems diagram – that shows the innovative systems thinking of the scheme

4) very sketchy [photoshopped] perspectival drawings that show the innovative programme through showing people [dogs/bikes/babies etc] inhabiting the intervention.

R&D CRITIQUE: Great work on this you all – you all have really interesting projects in train and you are where you should be in the process – so that is great. We’ll talk this week in more depth about where to go with the projects - in general you should now be:

_THINKING: fine-tuning your theoretical or conceptual approach through reference to a key thinker’s writing or concepts [refining the theory section of the essay to a 2 sentence paragraph is a good way to achieve this - and this summary can then be used to structure your crits];

_MAKING: and should be developing another experiment or making which builds on your trajectory and is fine-tuned to the conceptual strategy.

R& D WRITING:

Refer to the project brief for more on writing. In short the writing should:

_outline your proposed field of research, question, idea or process

_theoretical field (and methodological framework) quote specific theorists

_discipline or practice [spatial/art/performance etc]

_reference practitioners in that field [designers/artists/crafts people etc]

_discuss your design makings relative to the above