Mentors

Bachelorthesis

• Prof. Jürgen Späth / Paulina Zybinska
• Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinovic / Luke Franzke
• Dr. Joëlle Bitton / Verena Ziegler
• Dr. Roman Kirschner / Mona Neubauer

Video / Audio

• Nicole Foelsterl
• Matthias Kappeler

BA Coordinator

• Marcial Koch
  

External Jury

Students

Kimon Apeltsotou, Nemo Brigatti, Nicola Delany, Kilian Ettlinger, Baran Güneysel, Gian-Carlo Huber, Aathmigan Jegatheeswaran, Andy Kirk, Alec Nikolov, Ramona Rüttimann, Corvin Springer, Daniela Spühler, Janina Tanner, Sonia Tao, Andreas Waldburger, Miriam Mai Watanabe, Alessia Wiss, David Wollschlegel

Attendance

In the contact hours a minimum attendance of 80% is required to pass the course.
Attendance to all presentations is mandatory for all BA-finals candidates.
Progress Session presentations are open to all BA IAD students.
BA Finals are open to ZHdK audience and friends. (depends on the current Covid-19 situation)

Grading

The BA thesis is composed of two aspects:

• the BA practice project, with a process, outcome and findings presented and exhibited counts for 22 ECTS points.
• 50% Project
• 25% Final Presentation
• 25% Mediation via exhibition
• the BA written work and final deliverables counts for 6 ECTS points
  • 80% Written Part
  • 20% Colloquium

Any delay in the milestones deliveries or final delivery will affect the final grade.

Deliverables

In addition to the Final Deliverables, we expect you to deliver Milestones during the process. Everything has to be delivered on the IAD Server, if not stated otherwise.
Serveradress: smb://fileredu.ad.zhdk.ch/DDE/BDE_VIAD/01_ABGABEN/22_FS/Sem6_BA-Finals
For the chapter deliveries, the individual chapters are completely written as of the current status, but more content and changes may be added during the process.

Milestone Deliverables:

• Chapter Deliveries
• Thesis Structure
• Chapter Research Field
• Chapter Concept
• Chapter Project Development
• Chapter Conclusion (full thesis including updates and rewrites, not designed)
>>Work with a shared document (e.g Google Docs), so that the Mentors see the changes. Upload current states on the IAD server.
• Exhibition Concept
• Storyboards
• Teaser Image & Abstract for Diploma Publication, incl. 5-10 images
>> Speak with your Mentors about that, they will guide you through that Process
• Full BA Thesis text and documents (including updates and rewrites, with final reflection on practice)
• 2x Hard Copies, IAD office room 4C.01
• Digital Copy

Final Deliverables: (similar to any previous module):

• Text
  • Project Title, max. 100 characters
  • Short Description, min. 250 – max. 400 characters
  • Project Description, min. 1000 characters
  • Contributors, full names of students and mentors
• Images
  • min. 10 high-res images showing different aspects of your work/prototype
  • min. 10 high-res images showing your process
• Video
  • include official IAD intro and closing credits
• Prototype (if existing, f.e. Figma files, code, etc.)
• PDF Documentation
  • = Full BA Thesis text and documents (its a milestone delivery, copy-paste it to the final deliverables)

Expenses

Please be aware that your expenses can only be refunded if you submit the complete documents no later than 4 weeks after the end of the module. Regarding this module, 500 CHF per student will be reimbursed. Included in this budget is also the the IMac/IPad renting fees (220.-/150.-) during the exhibition, as well as the Thesis printing fee. The reimbursement happens only after controlling the Final Deliverables.

       Deliverables

       Events

       Video

       Writing Week

       Exhibition Events

W4

Wednesday 26 January, 10:00 - 11:00

• Semester overview

W8

Friday 25 February, 09:00 - 17:00

• Progress Session 1 «Background and Related Work»

W9

Monday 28 February, 17:00

• Thesis structure (Structure of your thesis, commented - 2 pages)
• Chapter Research Field
• Iterated Prototype

W10

Thursday 10 March, 10:00 - 11:00

• Information Event DDE Diploma @Konzertsaal 3

W11

Thursday 17 March, 09:00 - 17:00

• Progress Session 2 «Early Findings and Prototypes»

W12

Monday 21 March, 17:00

• Chapter Concept
• Advanced Prototype

W13

Monday 28 March, 14:00 - 17:00

• Exhibition Workshop

Wednesday 30 March, 17:00

• Exhibition Concept incl. requests and orders for exhibition locations, furniture, plinths, and iMacs/iPads

W14

Wednesday 05 April, 17:00

• Revised Exhibition Concept incl. requests and orders for exhibition locations, furniture, plinths, and iMacs/iPads

W15

11 - 14 April

Field Trip Paris

W16

Monday 18 April, 17:00

• Closing Date: Order AV Devices (Leihs)
  >> fill out form

Friday 22 April, 17:00

• First Storyboards

W17

Monday 25 April

• Storytelling Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

• Chapter Project Development

Tuesday 26 April, 13:00 - 17:00

• Storytelling Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

Thursday 28 April, 09:00 - 17:00

• Progress Session 3 «Observations and Lessons learned»
• Exhibition Layout review to all mentors and students by Marcial Koch (at the beginning of Progress session 3)
• Students present their video concepts/storyboards (2 min)

W18

Writing Week

W19

Monday 09 May, 17:00

• Full Thesis Text including updates and rewrites (not styled)
• Teaserimage and Abstract for Diploma Publication
• Add address list for invitations «Business-Apéro» event on 16.06.2022, 17:00-18:00

W20

Monday 16 May, 17:00

• Revised Storyboard

Tuesday 17 May, 09:00 - 17:00

• Storytelling Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

W21

Monday 23 May, 17:00

• Updated Teaserimage + 5–10 Images and Abstract for Diploma Publication

Tuesday 24 May, 09:00 - 17:00

• Video Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

Wednesday 25 May, 09:00 - 17:00

• Thesis Colloquium

Friday 27 May, 17:00

• Rough Cut Video

W22

Monday 30 May, 09:00 - 17:00

• Post Production Mentoring Nicole and Matthias
• Start Exhibition Build-Up

Tuesday 31 May, 09:00 - 17:00

• Post Production Mentoring Nicole and Matthias

Friday 03 June, 17:00

• Final video
• Final Thesis Text including updates from Colloquium
• 2x Hard Copies, IAD office room 4C.01
• Digital Copy

W23

Tuesday 07 June, 14:00 - 18:00

• Visit through Exhibition with all Mentors, possible adjustments of scenography

Wednesday 08 June, 09:00

• Exhibition Picture Ready - Virtualizing of the whole Exhibition

Thursday 09 June, 17:00 -

• Vernissage

Friday 10 June, 13:00 - 16:00

• Clear-out Student Atelier 4.K22 (only BA)

W24

Monday 13 June

• BA Finals Practice Round, organised by individual Mentors (could also be on an earlier or later date)

Wednesday 15 June, 09:00 - 17:00

• BA Finals

Thursday 16 June, 09:00 - 17:00

• Students Feedback Session, (ca. 10 min / Project)
• Business Apero
• ZHdK Sommerfest

W25

Monday 20 June, 17:00

• Final Deliverables

Friday 24 June

• Diplomfeier & Übergabe

Saturday 25 June

• Exhibition Take-Down
• Return the AV devices
• Return iMacs/iPads

W26

Monday 27 June

• Exhibition Take-Down
• Return the AV devices
• Return iMacs/iPads
• Final Clear-out Student Atelier 4.K22 (only BA)

BA Thesis Structure & Criteria

Presentations

Exhibition

Grading

Project Documentation

Plagiarism & Copyrights