INFORMAL URBAN PRACTICE
1. articulate your aspirations for the studio and propose a means for self-assessment
Student name: DANIEL KERRIS S3198321 What do you aspire to learn through the studio? Clearly propose the most important 6 or more aspects of learning and achievement (in few words) that you aspire to measure your work against.
What is likely to indicate different levels of your performance and achievement against each criteria? Describe in detail the indicators (evidence) of quality at the level of performance that you aspire to achieve. In less detail, describe what will indicate if you have achieved above or below your aspired level.
CRITERIA
‘SATISFACTORY’ PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
‘GOOD’ PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
‘VERY GOOD’ PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
‘OUTSTANDING’ PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
DESIGN LEADERSHIP
Able to outline personal endeavours within the project.
Able to outline personal endeavours within the project and within the group.
Clear understanding of function within the group and interaction with other members.
Constantly give and receive criticism from the group. Have impact on major decisions. Offer opinions and share ideas communally.
ENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUES WITHIN THE PUBLIC
Experiment with various techniques of engagement.
Experiment with various techniques of engagement and note their effects.
Experiment with various techniques of engagement and note their effects, forming more effective techniques based on this information
Formulate highly successful methods of engagement through analysis of experimentation and failures.
INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK
Work with students from another discipline.
Work with students from another discipline, using each others skills wisely.
Work with students from another discipline, learning from each others knowledge.
Create a work that clearly fuses the two disciplines whilst having equal and cross-disciplinary input.
IMMERSION
Discover a wide range of informal practices worldwide.
Discover a wide range of informal practices, copying some myself.
Discover a wide range of informal practices, copying some myself as well as create my own.
Discover a wide range of informal practices, copying some myself as well as creating my own, that others may emulate.
IDEA DEVELOPMENT
Create an idea or build upon another's idea
Build upon an idea and refine thoroughly. Track the idea through good documentation.
Create a well-documented and cohesive idea, well-aware of it's possible executions and preferred outcome.
Exhaust an idea by exploring it thoroughly and discovering something new that is separate from the initial idea.
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL PROVOCATION
Engage with the public in an acceptable fashion.
Engage with the public in a way regarded as alternative
Engage with the public in a way regarded unacceptable or obtrusive to social conventions.
Engage with the public in an extremely unusual fashion that is seen as radical or a release from conventions.
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Using existing materials and practices appropriately for personal endeavours.
Using existing materials and practices appropriately, reinterpreting them for personal endeavours.
Using existing materials and practices, reinterpreting them or using them in creative, untouched applications.
Using existing materials and practices, reinterpreting them and warping them into a new practice that garners momentum within the public, whilst telling a narrative.
INFORMAL URBAN PRACTICE
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Mid-semester self-assessment
Student name: DANIEL KERRIS S3198321 Import the above criteria
CRITERIA
What indicates the current levels of your performance and achievement in the studio against each criteria? Describe in detail the indicators (evidence) of quality at the level of performance you honestly believe you have achieved so far. In less detail, describe what would indicate if you had achieved above or below your proposed level. ‘SATISFACTORY’ ‘GOOD’ ‘VERY GOOD’ ‘OUTSTANDING’ PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS INDICATORS INDICATORS INDICATORS
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Held sway in design choices of a large group and taken advice from others
DESIGN LEADERSHIP
2 Experimented, documented and formulated new techniques but have yet to employ and test them in the real world.
ENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUES WITHIN THE PUBLIC 3 INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK
Learnt and worked with multiple interior design students. Trading favourite artists, events and styles.
IMMERSION
So far I've become aware of a wide range of practices, as well as created my own (informed by existing practices and art)
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At this stage, the weekly projects don't lend for much refinement of ideas, however the group project is being heavily tended to.
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL PROVOCATION
Formulated an intervention that some members of the public found alarming, whilst discovering the pervasion of apathy in the public as something to challenge.
METHODS OF APPROPRIATION & CO-OPTION
Appropriated existing practices and methods of social interaction within experiments, making use of initial learning outcomes and
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repurposing or expanding upon them.