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.

BA Thesis Structure & Criteria

Presentations

Exhibition

Grading

Project Documentation

Plagiarism & Copyrights