Month: November 2016

Open Discussion & Old Barracks Museum

Announcements

Project Status Updates

Let’s go around the room and discuss your projects.

  • What did you accomplish this week?
  • What do you hope to accomplish next week?
  • Are you blocked on anything?

Project Workshop

Let’s break up into our teams and continue working on our projects. If you have anything you’d like feedback on, feel free to demo to get feedback.

Old Barracks Visit

This week we are visiting the Old Barracks Museum. We’ll be visiting the gallery, followed by a taking a walking tour of the barracks. As you tour the museum, take notes on the exhibits, and consider how the stories the exhibition is trying to tell could benefit from interactive interpretations.

For example, consider the Splendor by the Hour exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Art:

Assignment

Please complete your second exhibit critique using this template as a guide. As before, you may use the Old Barracks Museum, the NJSM, the Princeton Art Museum, The Sarnoff Collection, or any other exhibition you have recently visited as your subject.

Open Discussion

Announcements

Project Status Updates

Let’s go around the room and discuss your projects.

  • What did you accomplish this week?
  • What do you hope to accomplish next week?
  • Are you blocked on anything?

Project Workshop

Let’s break up into our teams and continue working on our projects. If you have anything you’d like feedback on, feel free to demo to get feedback.

Guest Speaker: Brad Baer, Blue Cadet

This week Brad Baer, Director of Strategy at Blue Cadet will speak to our class by video call.

Exercise

Let’s take a few minutes to review his bio and jot down three questions each in preparation for the call.

Assignment

Design Notebooks

  • Continue working on your project individually or with your team if you have one
  • Individually (in each of your own Design Notebooks), create a new page in your design notebook and title it with today’s date
  • Write a brief paragraph outlining your team’s project goals for this week
  • Come to class next week prepared to present your progress, what your goals were and whether or not you were able to achieve them

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed the assignment, post a link to your Design Notebook in canvas and as a comment on this page (Open Discussion).

1st Exhibition Critiques

Announcements

  • This week – exhibition critiques & project workshop
  • Next Fab visit this afternoon immediately following this class
  • Next week – Guest Speaker: Brad Baer, Blue Cadet
  • 2 weeks – 2nd field trip, The Old Barracks Museum

Exhibition Critiques

Let’s review your exhibition critiques!  If you haven’t done so already, please post your 1st Exhibition Critique to Canvas.

Project Workshop

Today we’ll be breaking up into our groups and working on our projects.

Exercise

  • Based on your learning this week, update your Vision Documents to accurately reflect the audience, message, technologies, budget and timeline for your project
  • Update your team project page on the class blog with any new documentation, screen designs, prototypes or other materials you’ve developed over the week
  • Continue researching and developing your content and technology infrastructure for your project

Assignment

Design Notebooks

  • Continue working on your project individually or with your team if you have one
  • Individually (in each of your own Design Notebooks), create a new page in your design notebook and title it with today’s date
  • Write a brief paragraph outlining your team’s project goals for this week
  • Come to class next week prepared to present your progress, what your goals were and whether or not you were able to achieve them

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed the assignment, post a link to your Design Notebook in canvas and as a comment on this page (1st Exhibition Critiques).