Mentors

Bachelorthesis

• Prof. Jürgen Späth / Paulina Zybinska
• Dr. phil. Björn Franke / 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

Guan Arobei, Sandro Beti, Nicola Bischof, Eleonora Bonorva, Elena de Carlo, Tim Fuchs, Dzhuliia Kolodko, Bin Martig, Johannes Reck, Thore Reigber, Réjane Schrago, Miguel Seabra, Svenja Steurer Jene, Janosch Tillich, Daniel Treystman, Silvan Weber, Nadia Westermann, Fabrizio Willi, Andy Kirk, Nemo Brigatti, Janina Tanner

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/23_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 (250.-/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

5. Semester January

Monday 09 January, 09:00

• Chapter Research Field

5. Semester - Concept Seminar

Friday 13 January, tbd

• Iterated Prototype

Friday 20 January, tbd

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

W4

Wednesday 25 January, 11:00 - 12:00

• Semester overview

W8

Thursday 23 February, 09:00 - 17:00

• Progress Session 1 «Background and Related Work»

W10

Friday 10 March, 10:00 - 11:00

• Information Event DDE Diploma @Konzertsaal 3

W11

Monday 13 March, 17:00

• Chapter Concept
• Advanced Prototype

W12

Thursday 23 March, 09:00 - 17:00

• Progress Session 2 «Early Findings and Prototypes»

Friday 24 March, tbd

• Exhibition Workshop

W13

Friday 31 March, 17:00

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

W14

03 - 06 April

Field Trip

W15

Wednesday 12 April, 12:00

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

W16

Monday 17 April, 17:00

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

Tuesday 18 April, 17:00

• First Storyboards

W16

Thursday 20 April, 09:00 - 17:00

• Storytelling Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

W17

Wednesday 26 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 08 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 tbd

Friday 12 May, 17:00

• Revised Storyboard

W20

Tuesday 16 May, 09:00 - 12:00

• Storyboard/Production Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

Wednesday 17 May, 09:00 - 12:00

• Storyboard/Production Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

W21

Monday 22 May, 17:00

• Updated Abstracts for Diploma Publication

Wednesday 24 May, 17:00

• Rough Cut Video

Thursday 25 May, 09:00 - 12:00

• Video Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

Friday 26 May, 09:00 - 12:00

• Video Mentoring Nicole and Matthias, Invitation per Doodle

W22

Monday 29 May, 09:00

• Start Exhibition Build-Up
• Updated Teaserimage + 5–10 Images for Diploma Publication

Wednesday 31 May, 09:00 - 17:00

• Thesis Colloquium

Friday 02 June, 17:00

• Final video

W23

Monday 05 June, tbd

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

Wednesday 07 June, 09:00

• Exhibition Picture Ready - Virtualizing of the whole Exhibition

Wednesday 07 June, 12:00

• Final Thesis Text including updates from Colloquium
• 1x Hard Copy, IAD office room 4C.01 (the you keep afterwards, but we need it for the grading)
• 1x Hard Copy, placed at your exhibit in the diploma exhibition (the one we keep afterwards)
• Digital Copy

Thursday 08 June, 17:00 -

• Vernissage

Friday 09 June, 13:00 - 16:00

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

W24

Monday 12 June

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

Wednesday 14 June, 09:00 - 17:00

• BA Finals

Thursday 15 June, 09:00 - 17:00

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

W25

Monday 19 June, 17:00

• Final Deliverables

Friday 23 June

• Diplomfeier & Übergabe

Saturday 24 June

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

W26

Monday 26 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