There are two categories of assessment requirements- individual and group/class

INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS

Individually you are required to:

• Participate in all class discussions
• Undertake readings and post annotation summations as distributed to all class members
• Contribute to the class blog – your own page and shared discussions
• Undertake an individual investigation into the topics raised in class in a manner or form that relates to your particular area of interest and practice. You will work on this throughout the semester and should have a proposal for what this will be to discuss with your professor in Week 6 of the semester (Feb 18-20). This is a negotiated submission, it should result in a portfolio piece for you, and can be in any form as is appropriate.

GROUP/STUDIO WORK

Throughout the semester will undertake group/studio exercises exploring the key issues in the topic.These will include:

• Evaluation and discussion of issues
• Presentation to the project partner
• Design sketches or reflections of issues as raised by guest speakers in class
• Three specific areas of inquiry and mini projects – the detail of each of these will be outlined as they are developed in class
  • Design fiction
  • Information design
  • Design communication
  • As a class we will undertake a major inquiry into the issue in a manner that addresses the key challenges of the project partner. This will draw on the three approaches listed above.
  • This and the processes used in the class will be combined into the design of studio publication – format etc. to be co-designed by the studio members