OUGD402 STUDIO BRIEF 3 - DESIGN STRATEGY PRESENTATION BRIEFING

Studio Brief
Produce and present a 7 minute Powerpoint/pdf presentation that communicates a reflective summary of your experiences on the course to date. You should aim to reflect on 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 identify creative concerns, personal aims and professional ambitions that you intend to explore further over the Summer and during Level 5 of the programme.

Background

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 the experiences from the past nine months that have informed the decisions that you have made/are 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.

What have you learned and what do you want to learn? What mistakes have you made and how have you learned from 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 how 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 weren’t expecting?

Mandatory Requirements

Your presentation should last 7 minutes and allow 3 minutes for questions to be asked (you will be penalised for a presentation that is shorter or longer than this).

Although the content, tone and conclusions 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 that you are making about your future. To this end you should use examples of your own work, creative skills and interest in the contemporary field of design as part of your presentation.

You should be prepared to answer question on your presentation posed by your colleagues

Deliverables:

1 x 7 minute Powerpoint presentation. Evidence of critical engagement with personally relevant contemporary design practice in the form of a blog.

PDF of presentation slides.

Deadline:

23rd April 2015

My understanding of the brief:

I understand that I must produce a 7 minute presentation reflecting on my experiences on the course during my first year, and how I have developed as a creative in response to my learning. I should also reflect on any aims and ambitions that have been fulfilled during the first year, or for my studies during Level 5 and beyond university. I should use examples from my own work and other designers to show how my learning has developed and will continue to develop during this course. My presentation but be 7 minutes long, if it is too long or too short, I will have marks deducted for this, as it doesn't fulfil the criteria of the brief.