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Prototype (+ Proposal Revisions)

Refine your project proposal and create a prototype/proof of concept for your proposed project.

Download Prototype Handout

Capstone Examples

David Geoghegan (plus click on 2015 Shift on the left and see other examples from the same year)

Gerald Llorence

Erica Stivison

Week 2 Day 1

Today in class, we are:

Looking at your charrette results!

Talking about project proposals

 

For next time:

Have at least 2 project proposals according to the guidelines given

Project Proposals

Create initial proposals for your Capstone project.

In doing so, we’re starting to decide on your projects. We’ll make initial proposals, get faculty and peer feedback, refine the proposals, create a full project proposal, then carry out that project.

Create at least two initial proposals for your Capstone ­project.

Download Capstone Proposals

Week 1 Day 2

Today in class, we are:

Talking about the reading (On Permission)

Looking at the Orbit Mind Mapping exercise

Talking about the charrette we’re starting

Working and talking individually about ideas for the charrette

 

For next time:

Come in with a finished charrette!

Read Scratching from Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit

(In it, be on the lookout for practices you can make your own)

Charrette

In this charrette, we will create a one week project that fuses an interest/like/influence with one of your  “orbit” definitions/associations. In doing so, you’ll begin to identify interests, likes, influences.

Download Charrette

Capstone Day One

Today, we are:

Getting started! The syllabus is here.

Introducing our theme, Orbit. There’s an exercise about it here.

Introducing new faculty to students and vice versa.

 

For next time:

Read On Permission by Craig Mod.

Complete the Orbit Exercise. Be ready to start designing.

Orbit Exercise

Research the term/idea orbit. What do you think it means? What are the other definitions for it?

Bring in at least two definitions for it (printed or written down, not just in your head).

What can orbit mean? What can it mean for you? For this class? For this time? What are other ­associations with it?

Make a mind map using the included starting point. Start with the primary associations and meanings for orbit. Work your way out to secondary, tertiary, etc. connections.

Download the Mind Map Exercise

Don’t know what a mind map is?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

google images search for mind map