ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment set 1: due Monday, Jan 29

1. Select one project which you completed last semester, and present it better than you did in your crit. I suggest (but don’t require) that you do it in a way that doesn’t assume your presence. Your means of presentation can be economical or temporary.

2. Write a short mission statement (can be one sentence) which encapsulates the most important goal or goals you’d like to achieve with the exhibition: what you want to gain from it. Consider what goals you migth be willing to trade away in pursuit of ones that are more important to you.

3. Create a list of between three and six departments (titles for working groups within the studio) which could support your goal.

Image results of Assignment 1

Rebecca’s Solution

Discussing Michael’s Solution

Eric’s Solution 1
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Assignment 2: Due Mon, February 5

Each department should present one or more considered, convincing, refined proposals for the relevant domain. Your solutions should be significantly defined by your own stated goals as well as practical limitations and opportunities presented by the space and other exigencies.

Assignment 3: Due Mon, Feb 12

Please read and be prepared to discuss the pairing of the Wum Cuyvers and Paul Elliman essays. How does a designer enable discovery?

Assignment 4: Due Mon, Feb 26

This assignment is for each of the 16 of you, working independently. An exception can be for individuals who already have more than a couple hours “homework” this week for this class, due to their responsibilities to their main department: you can skip this assignment if you wish. Web, Publication, Inventory/Supply, and PR Departments do all need to make progress as planned.

Here is the assignment:

Each of you: Go back to your goals for the show that you wrote for the second class. Draw a proposal for the gallery that could accomplish your goals, and be ready to explain why it does so (and why in an interesting way). In your proposal, consider using found/at-hand/recycled/reclaimed materials in pursuit of your goals. Also, you must give specific consideration to specific projects that actually exist in the studio: your own, or other people’s. You can design the entire gallery space in this way, or your proposal may require only a small amount of space. Also, your proposal can incorporate all the work of the show, or as little as a single piece.

Be free with respect to scale: even if your proposal includes only one piece of work, it can take up the entire gallery if you want, or just a tiny corner.