Presentation...

The Brief:

Produce and deliver a 5-7 minute presentation that communicates a reflective summary of your experiences on the course to date. You should aim to identify who you are as a learner and a designer as well as how the things you have experienced over the past nine months have affected your current aims and ambitions.

You should also attempt to communicate your ambitions for next year.

Context:

Your own personal development as an individual and as a designer is affected by all aspects of your life. This is an opportunity to reflect on experiences from the past nine months that have informed the decisions that you have made/ making about your future development.

The ability to reflect upon your personal development can help you to gain confidence in your abilities as well as identify areas of strength, focus, ambition and improvement.

Deliverables:

1x 5-7 minute Powerpoint or Pdf presentation.

Evidence of critical engagement with personally relevant contemporary design practise in the form of a blog.

Considerations:

What have you learned, and what do you want to learn? What mistakes have you made and how have you learned form them? How will this affect your future development? What are your strengths and how have you/ will you develop them further? What are your weaknesses and hwo do you intend to address these? What have you enjoyed and why? What have you disliked and why? How does this affect your ambitions ? What did you want to get from the year? Have you achieved this? What have you discovered that you werent expecting?

Mandatory requirements:

Your presentation should last between 5 and 7 minutes (you will be penalised for a presentation that is shorter or longer than this).

Although the content, tone and conclusion of this reflective process should reflect your own experiences, personality and ambitions, you should aim to focus on the learning journey and how this has informed the decisions about your future. To this end you should use examples of your own work, creative skills and interest of contemporary field of design as part of your presentation.

You should be prepared to answer questions on your presentation posed by your collegues.

Studio deadline:

Presentations to be delivered on:-

9th/ 10th June 2011