3.0 In-Habitat
01/06/20 - 11/09/20 Brief
Requirements
Outcomes
Your year masters here at UCA will cummulate in a designed built work which can be virtual or analogue, but is a developed spatial work which is presented in a digital platfrom which is agreed between the staff and students according to the opportunities and requirements of the project. These digital habitats form the basis of the final examination, are ambitious works which require careful planning and execution. The projects then form part of The UCA MA Online Summer Show which opens at the end of the course after the internal and external examination process, alongside the other MA courses across the school and is open for a week. Your proposal must be space-making in some way which incudes complex, inhabitable spatial design and extends beyond object and product/furniture to deal with habitation of some scale, in a digital or analogue form. What is crucial here is you are working towards presenting your work in an exhibition, albeit online, which is available for the public to view and forms the most important part of your assessment. So think about what you would like to present in a ‘gallery’ type space and, if your work does not immediately conform to this, how you might solve these challenges of presentation. You need to maintain your documentation blog recording your experimentation and research. This is alongside the usual portfolio submission and a consise design report. The final submission will form a film of the experience of the work and a film of the making of the project. You might also submit a VR file, or a website if depending on how you have developed the showing of your work. You will develop your ability to design and deliver a full scale project through the planning and production stage. Your practical work is expected to demonstrate innovation and a high level of skill and execution that directly relates to a your research concerns through collborative cluster work. You will demonstrate a coherent relationship between a sophisticated and on-going theoretical enquiry and a well-realised spatial intervention is expected, culminating in professional standard individual contributions to the MA Online Exhibition, supported by drawn professional level outputs to exhibit alongside your final outcome work. Joe, VR project, UCA, 2019
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Deliverables
The following are minimum deliverable requirements for completion of the project: A 1:1 digital spatial intervention carefully and professionally presented through film or website platform. Max 500MB, mp4, four minutes max. Cluster. A making of film showing how you developed your work. Max 500MB, three minutes. Max 500MB, mp4, four minutes max. Cluster A website platform which presents your project. Cluster, includes individual details like bio and cv. Written Report presenting your research project and final realisation in a professional manner according to the provided template. Individual Professional and detailed individual portfolio of at least 25 pages, including but not limited to: 1. Research diagrams showing context of reseach and development. These need to be well presented and detailed. Your work in the Thesis Review will support this. 2. Final proposal from 06/06 including storyboard, platform (digital details) and workflow information (who is doing what how and when), reflections on how this progressed. 3. Site investigation and drawings. 4. Detailed drawing of context aspect of the project: what is your ‘site’? 5. Drawing or render explaining proposed interaction and change. 6. Design development drawings. 7. Portfolio records of all experimental tests & prototype pieces. What is your contribution to this collaboration? 8. Portfolio records of simulation work and outreach into the community. Who is your user now? How have you engaged with the culture of design practice? 9. Portfolio documentation of detailed spatial design. This could include important details about use, inhabitation, interaction and fabiracation. Be creative and rigorous here. 10. Detailed plans, sections and elevations of the spatail work. 11. Interactive drawing showing detailed understanding of use, change over time and interactivity or movement. How is your space used? 12. Renders showing your work in appropriate contexts/sites/uses and users (talk this over with your design tutor). Process Blog updated with all your infomation and work. Individual Five amazing images formatted for online exhibition requirements. Cluster
Nordic Pavillion, Venice Bienalle, 2018
OMA/AMO Prada Fashion show 2015
MA Grad Show 2017
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Exhibition
You will be taking part in the yearly Masters Graduate Show at UCA, opening this year online on the 23rd of August. The show is the most important moment of the year and it forms the framing context for your final work here for your masters qualification. We have a deadline of the 16/08/19 at 14:00 and then the 19/08/19 an inspection around the spaces to ensure that your project is up and running so we can make a summative assessment on 21/08/19 and you are prepared for the External Examiner visit on the 22/08/19. The public opening is then on the 23/08/19. 1. Proposal submission 06/06/20. 2. Online exhibition: This is the format you will be using to present your work in your interview. 3. Details for the catalogue, will need to be provided, name, email, website/blog address. Images for the catalogue, these are usually 300dpi, 250Ă—250mm dimension maximally, but can vary slightly year on year. Please be aware of emails which specify these details. You are allowed a small space in th catalogue for free, if you would like more, you can pay a ÂŁ25 suppliment for extra pages. You also get a free copy of the catalogue.
Project information: for June 6 with Lucy and revised to be up to date afterwards
4. Cluster website. This is how you can present your project on the online UCA exhibition. Proposal for final outcome. 1. This needs to include the scope of your proposed outcome and investigation through drawings. 2. Workflow and series of responsiblites in the cluster including a time management plan. 3. How you are working with the technical support available to you? 4. Your aims and ambitions for the project: this can be as a cluster but also individually. 5. What skills will the project provide? 6. Looking forward, what is this project useful for in the field of spatial practice? 7. How is your work involved with Craft, Technolgy and Culture as important aspects of your outcome? This should be one a3 layout. You may include diagrams. We all love a diagram .
Digital Outcomes
The film is a very important part of the submission. The most effective way in which you can communicate the ambition, energy and scope of your design work is ththrough this method. Different clusters, however, will have different approaches to this determined by the nature of the project. We are interested in ways you might explore this as a design medium. You might create a website which allows you to explore interactively the proposal you are working on. Our expectations, anticipations and assesment will be based on the merits of each individual project. We are excited about how you spend the next semester presenting your skills of visualiastion, digital space making and innovation.You will notice we expect you to create a website of your project. This allows it to be presented as a platform to the public, you might use this to outreach to employers, opportunites for further study and exhibition platforms, events, design showcases or festivals.
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Mondays with Owain
You will be working with Owain on Mondays to develop your Exhibition work, you will be working on your online presence, your blogs and portfolio development. How your work is presented and has a public presence is an important part of work as a spatial designer and of the current digital assesment. So owain will be working with you to develop your skills in this area, refine and give feedback on your work and suport you in your work in this aspect. If you are struggling with one of these aspects of your work you will have the opportunity to gt extra support here. Please be prepared and ready. 1. Plans for website. Please have something set up and sketched out. Lots of free platforms available. 2. Blog review sessions. 3. Website review seminars 4. Portfolio sessions Units 1/4 5. Portfolio sessions Units 2/3 6. Image review and catalogue submission. 7. Online exhibition review (with Lucy)
Process Blog
Your blog will become more and more important in the documentation of your project as you spend an acellerating amount of time in the physiclal making of your work. Please make sure it is foramtted in an approriate and user-friendly style and available to present your project and its latest developments at any one time. You can take videos on your phone, photographs, type reflective prose, post links, events and precedents to help you. They will be forwarded to the external examiners in preparation for their final visit, so its in your interests to make a good impression!
Documentation
Please carefully document your work. For many of you when the show comes down, the installation is no longer a viable piece of work, and some of you will be traveling home to other parts of the world. It is therefore of utmost importance for your portfolio and other CV materials that you effectively document your work while it is up. As a department we welcome you sending us your documentation to add to the archive alongside out documentation materials. Another note regarding your documentation, use the right camera! It really does matter that you get a camera and tripod from the store. Its very obvious when you are using your phone and whilst that is ok for your process blog, its not ok to make your work look good in your portfolio. Think carefully about lighting and background. Again, if you have any questions, ask Kat.
Technical support for You may have increased and various technical needs for the development and production of your ambitious digital work. your work. With the current learning environment, you are working with more intensity in the digital field with this project than in previous work. So without the physical making outcomes as the obvious and expected option for your projects in many instances, your digital experimentation and working will necessarily be under greater scrutiny. To support you in successful design outcomes, we have consolidated the support from the UCA team that is available to you for the digital work you are progressing. We propose that if you need digital support for your work, please follow the below workflows:Â Tuesdays are the day you might arrange for 1:1 sessions with the technical experts..
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For support with 3-d modelling and visualisation, including SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, Katie Woollin is available for online discussions/share screens etc. on Tuesdays, please email her on KWoollin2@uca.ac.uk, to arrange a good time on that day. For support with visualisation and filmmaking, photoshop, aftereffects and premierepro, Kat Sengstaken is available for online discussions/share screens etc on Tuesday, please email her on KSengstaken@uca.ac.uk, to arrange a good time on that day. For support with Unity and VR work, JJ Brophy is available by email, JJBrophy@uca. ac.uk, please get in touch and he will get back to you. If you are working on timber and tectonic based design work, or you are working on how your project would be built to present in your portfoio, you my want to talk to Ben Fletcher, as you know, lead technician in the workshop. His email is bfletcher@uca.ac.uk so you can arrange a session on a Tuesday. If you are working on steel constructions, junctions and fabrications, you may wish to talk to Sim Oliver. He would also be really good at showing you how something might realistically be constructed and the extent of supporting elements and fixings. Sim is SOliver@uca.ac.uk. Again, email to arrange a session.
Parker Heyl, UCL, 2018
MA Grad Show 2017
Upside Down Mushroom Room, Carsten Holler , 2000
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What is the Internal Examination? This is an important day of assessment.
Assessment week: what to expect
You will have an interview for your final assesment. you will need to present your work formally to us from first principles. You will first present your film including VR experince where relevant, then you will talk us through your work. We use this to make sure we have understood your piece and to make an assessment of your grade. Don’t worry to much about the sesion, it is more an opportunity for us to ask questions and clarify points about your cluster contributions, as it is an individual interview. There will be three days of sessions, as we need to interview everyone. What is the External Examination? You will remember the interim visit. As with the interim visit, the session will be on a sample basis so not all of you will need to see the external examiner. We will let you know in good time the arrangements for those involved. Then you can relax. The Online exhibition will go live at the end of the week following the examination session and you are expected to be available up until this point. Afterwards you will have your carrers interview and can start making your next steps into the world. Good luck.
Report and Professional development
An important part of your assessment is the Written Report presenting your research project and final realisation in a professional manner according to a common template. You have already been briefed on this report and its rescribed format. Try to make sure you accurately portray your design work in this documnt, its an important aspect of the unit, and is a very useful document summarising the enormous amount of work you have done here at UCA. Please see History and Theory Brief for more details. 1. Report: 20% of final unit: assessed element. Tutorials Academic support workshop 2. Professional profile Workshops with careers advisers CV preparation Linkedin and social media 3. Prepared for work 1:1 sessions with careers advisers Looking for work Career plans You have organised interviews with the carreers officers at the university. You will need to be proactive in arranging these sessions and you will be contacted to slot into particular times. You might be careful to prepare your cv for this moment and a list of questions about how you might approach employment opportunies. Things to think about:
Afterwards
1. CV 2. List of companies to apply for 3. Other ideas to increase your profile. 4. Questions you might have for your Careers Advisor.
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Staff/Guests
The project will be run by Lucy Jones (MA Course Leader) and assisted by Owain Caruana-Davies, Hester Buck and Tom Parsons, visiting design tutors. You will also be supported by the technical staff of UCA. During the course of the unit we will be joined by key guests for scheduled reviews.
Assessment
Completion of the project will contribute 100% of the grade for the MA Interior Design ‘Final Realisation’ unit (CIND 7013) and the MA Architecture ‘Final Realisation’ unit (CARC 7005). Both units are valued at 60 credits. Assessment will be carried out at the point of submission via a final A2 paper portfolio and completed prototypes or models and written report. Final installation outcomes will be reviewed with the external examiners. Feedback will be verbal and written at formative stages and written at the summative stage for this project.
Learning Aims
The aims of this unit are: A1 Consolidate and realise the MA project both practically and theoretically A2 Analyse, evaluate and showcase your personal creative approach to research A3 Establish rigorous, in-depth technical and delivery skills through the realisation of a major built project at post graduate level A4 Refine concepts and ideas that respond to research, critical, practical and professional contexts A5 Encourage and support the dissemination of research outcomes in appropriate professional and/or public contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On satisfactory completion of the unit you will be able to: LO1 Present a critical, rigorous, coherent and resolved independent research project, which fully integrates theory and practice LO2 Expound a rigorous, complex understanding of your MA project, through and including continuing critical evaluation, self-reflection and future development aims LO3 Demonstrate an advanced knowledge and use of materials, processes, technical skills, formal refinements and fabrication methods to a professional standard LO4 Deploy strong communication and presentation skills to facilitate the structured evaluation and dissemination of your work in appropriate research contexts LO5 Situate your creative practice within appropriate future public/professional contexts LO6 Demonstrate the ability to work independently, set goals, manage workloads, meet deadlines and confidently contribute to critical evaluations of design outcomes.
1. Visitors' activity tracks in exhibition space.
1. Visitors' activity tracks in exhibition space.
2. Different players' activity tracks in the game.
2. Different players' activity tracks in the game.
Explanatory Drawings
Explanatory Drawings
MA Show 2018
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Reading list
References
Bruno, G. (2007) Public intimacy: architecture and the visual arts. In: Writing architecture series. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Cook, P. (2014) Drawing: the motive force of architecture. (2. ed ed.) In: AD primers. Chichester: Wiley. Ingold, T. (2013) Making: anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. London ; New York: Routledge. MacDonald, S. (2001) The garden in the machine: a field guide to independent films about place. Berkeley: University of California Press. Simanowski, R. Digital art and meaning: reading kinetic poetry, text machines, mapping art, and interactive installations Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Sheil, Robert (ed.) (2005) Design through Making. Chichester: Wiley. Pallasmaa, Juhani (2009) The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture. Chichester: Wiley. Pallasmaa, Juhani (2012) The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. (3rd Ed.) Chichester: Wiley. Taylor, Mark. Interior Design And Architecture. 1st ed. London ; New Delhi [u.a.]: Bloomsbury, 2013. Yiannoudes, S. (2016) Architecture and adaptation: from cybernetics to tangible computing. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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The project will run from 01/06/2020 until the show closing on 11/09/2020
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