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SKO preparation

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Following up on the scaffolding for the SKO Brief 1 worth 30%.

Start drafting your SKO written summary this week.

Refer to your weekly SUW (shut up and write) sessions as a basis for drafting your written summary.

Remember you need to submit the following for your SKO:
i. The weekly diary g-document
ii. An SKO media artefact.

Your written summary (600-1000 words), once complete and added to your individual submission folder, will inform the design of your media artefact.

Your media artefact (which is your SKO) can take many different forms. Some of these may be appropriate for including your written 600-1000 word summary (eg editorial piece, blog or booklet) some may not (eg poster, infographic, video).

Finalising your SKO (Studio Knowledge Object) / Reflective Summary

Week10-13

Firstly re-read the SKO Brief 1.

There are two stages to finalising your SKO:

Stage 1. Complete your written summary around the three topics of Contextualising, Reflecting and Proposing future applications.

Stage 2. Create a media artefact that embodies and provides a form through which you can articulate your written summary.

You should have Stage 1 above completed by Wednesday of week 12.

You then submit your complete SKO Sunday of week 13.

Stage 1 Written summary process

Use the SKO writing resources to structure your writing. Answer the following questions. Copy the supplied Pro Forma into your Individual Google Folder. (Place your summary in the individual assessment google folder that was shared with your in week 1).

Contextualising the field of inquiry:
What field of practice does the studio investigate?
What is the intent of this field of practice?
What are the key approaches/ methods and who are the key thinkers in this field of practice?
What are the implications of these for design practice (yours/others)?

Reflecting on your learning:
What insight(s) did I gain through the studio?
Which significant events, theories, methods, thinkers and practitioners contributed to your insight?
What do you now understand and how does it affect your practice?

Proposing future applications:
What aspect(s) of the learning in this studio will you draw on for future design practice? techniques What techniques will you transfer to your future practice?
What meaning and value does this have for your practice?
How might you apply this understanding to your future practice?

Write 200-400 words on each of the three areas above.

Stage 2 Media Artefact Process

Create your SKO Media Artefact. This can be in any form. It could be:
Video
Booklet
Photo essay
Poster
Infographic
Website
Game
Set of Cards
etc

The form of the artefact should be appropriate to your practice and to the future field you wish to enter as a creative practitioner. It should be an appropriate artefact to present to potential employers or creative partners.

Draft video presentation

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The following is a framework to help you prepare for the (draft) prototype presentations due Friday May 19 in the studio 9.30-11.30.

The key aim of the (draft) prototype presentation is to use it to prepare for the final presentations to Lentara on Friday May 26 in week 12.

We suggest you prepare a storyboard of the video you will present in week 12. This storyboard can take many forms – a slide ppt, a sketch, a mocked up video (animatic). The trick here is not to take to much time off your prototype work and most importantly utilise the work you are doing on your prototype (as work-in-progress) to bring to the draft presentation for feedback from the studio and client.

In the final presentation the expectation is that you will play your video to the panel first, then take questions from the panel in regards to providing additional clarification where needed. Therefore, when you design your video think about it being able to stand alone to communicate what your prototype is and how it can be developed. In other words your video could be shown to other Lentara staff, or corporate companies, as a way to communicate the potential of your prototype – for further development and implementation. It is a type of pitch to get your prototype implemented.

Presentation video guidelines:

A guide below to designing your presentations. You don’t have to follow this exactly but remember to keep it succinct and demonstrate your strategy.

Part 1: TITLE
Title of your project (i.e Be Loyal etc)
Group names
Visual/s that encapsulate your prototype

Part 2: CONTEXT
Remind the client, the studio – what problem your project is seeking to address. You may need to briefly provide the narrative of how the problem has shifted and been re-defined (from week 1 through to post the week 8 panel). In here you will also state clearly what you are making as a prototype (in regards to the urgency of the problem and what the client is expecting (picking up on the feedback from week 9 & 10).

Part 3: THE PROTOTYPE
This is the focal point in the design of your video presentation. Use visuals here as much as you can to demonstrate what your prototype is…(photos, drawings, plans, schematics, video…) Speak to visuals as much as possible (rather than text)…Pitch to the panel the potential of your prototype (and your fresh ideas) in relation to what they offer from a bigger picture perspective.

Part 4: PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
In the final section be honest and transparent about where your prototype is at… with the aim to communicate what is required from this point to make it happen.

Part 5: (for draft presentation only) 
Invite questions from the panel.

SUW SKO week 8

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Hi all as discussed in the week 8 tutorials last week.

This week use your SKO 20 minutes of shut-up-and-write time to reflect on the Wednesday presentations and the feedback from the panels. You may like to also include the group discussion with Gemma on Friday about the proposal summary for the upcoming prototypes.

Again (if needed), use the 4 R reading again to guide this reflection:

Reported: Identify an issue.
Relating: Connect the issue to your professional skills and experience.
Reasoning: Focus on factors underlying the issue you have identified. Make connections with theory and consider what a person in this professional area would do to work with these issues.
Reconstructing: Think about how you would do things differently next time.

Ryan, Mary, and Michael Ryan. “Teaching and Assessing Reflection in Higher Education.” Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. 2012. Seminar, Centre for Recording Achievement, QUT Draw Project. – Reflection slide from the presentation – The 4 Rs for Reflective Thinking

SUW SKO Week 7

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This week use your 20 minutes of shut-up-and-write time to reflect on the feedback session your group did with Gemma on your concepts and presentation for the panel in week 8.

Use the 4 R reading again to guide this reflection:

Reported: Identify an issue.
Relating: Connect the issue to your professional skills and experience.
Reasoning: Focus on factors that underly the issue you have identified. Make connections with theory and consider what a person in this professional area would do to work with these issues.
Reconstructing: Think about how you would do things differently next time.

Ryan, Mary, and Michael Ryan. “Teaching and Assessing Reflection in Higher Education.” Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. 2012. Seminar, Centre for Recording Achievement, QUT Draw Project. – Reflection slide from the presentation – The 4 Rs for Reflective Thinking

SUW Week 6

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For this weeks SUW reflection think about the branding presentation on Wednesday as a starting point and use the reflection resource from design to help you frame that reflection.

Reflecting web page

Other links:

Reflective writing design webpages

SKO workshop notes and links

The framework to use a catalyst and guide for your writing (from the Reflecting web page):

Identify
Identify an insight. This is a new understanding that emerged from the studio activities or your design process. It may be a practical, theoretical or critical understanding such as a new awareness of certain factors in the design process, a new method that improves your efficiency, a deeper understanding of a particular issue, a connection between a particular theory and practice, a model that supports your interrogation of a problem, or a framework for evaluating design outcomes.

Step 2: Describe Describe
Briefly describe the incident that led to this insight. What was the catalyst?

Step 3: Interpret Interpret
Interpret the insight. Explain the connection between this insight and the methods, principles and theory of the design field.

Step 4: Evaluate Evaluate
Evaluate the significance of this new understanding for you. This may relate to the further development of the project or future design projects, or to your design process or the way you think about design.

Step 5: Plan Plan
Plan how you might transfer this new understanding to future projects and/or practice. Speculate about how this new insight might change the way you approach a design task in the future.

SUW- SKO reflection week 5

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Please look at the following reference on reflection and use it to inform your week 5 SUW writing that needs to be completed in your SKO diary in your personal assessment folder.

(Aim for 10-20 mins uninterrupted writing – remember this forms part of your SKO assessment and we will be catching up on these next week in the studio)

Ryan, Mary, and Michael Ryan. “Teaching and Assessing Reflection in Higher Education.” Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. 2012. Seminar, Centre for Recording Achievement, QUT Draw Project. – Reflection slide from the presentation – The 4 Rs for Reflective Thinking

Try writing a reflection that works from the 4 headings Reporting, Relating, Reasoning, Reconstructing.

Concepts research stage (methods)

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If your group is floundering on what move to make next with the concepts research. The IDEO HCD handbook has a variation of methods that you could utilise to start co-designing with your stakeholders.

Check the ‘Methods’ section p.26-60. – see how many of these activities you may be able to use to research over the next 3 weeks – split your group up to work on varying methods to engage with your stakeholders.