Bringing everything together into a final project

Assignment

Develop, plan and execute a final project that integrates skills, tools and processes from across the module.

Document all your work on your student blog, showing your progress each week (1 week per page for 4 weeks minumum).

Coronavirus update: 2020-03-23

I’ve started to collect some project ideas and approaches better suited to a lockdown situation here:

Lockdown Projects

What do I need to do to pass? (40%)

2020-03-31 Updated for Coronavirus:

Try to integrate some different design and fabrication skills into one project. Ideally one or more of these should be digital, but you can combine this with non-digital processes and tools.

You can also augment a non-digital project with a digital element, e.g. building a prototype with craft materials, and using CAD to render a visualisation of how it could look if digitally fabricated.

As with the other assignments, the assesment is based on the quality of your documentation, so try to:

  • Set yourself – and state – a hypothesis to test: “Can I make this thing using this process?”
  • Document what you did to test it
  • Show your results and a plan for how to improve the next version
  • Iterate

Include a page on your original project proposal including sketches, diagrams, mood boards or examples of similar work.

Include a page on the end result with photographs of the final project, a description of what it is/does and a reflection on how it could be improved.

Cite external sources where you have used someone else’s work.

Extra credit (50-100%)

Write up your project as a project that someone else could replicate. Publish it on Instructables, or other appropriate platform

Integrate more technologies to a greater degree of sophistication.

Show how prototyping has helped you develop a better final project.

Include videos, timelapses or other rich media to show off your final project or its development.