Project 3: Place Project Handout and Rubric

PLACE

• Project Begins:
  • Week 11 
    • M/W studios: Oct. 30th
    • T/TH studios: Oct. 31st
• Final Reviews:
  • M/W studios: Dec. 6th 
  • T/TH studios: Dec. 7th 

*DsnS102 Studio Instructors, all selected sites for Place project must be approved by the DsnS102 Coordinator to be in compliance with the university before Place project work begins.

In this module project, you will explore each exercise in the sequential order navigating the project with your studio instructor.  Though the learning objectives are shared across all Design Studies 102 studios, the work interpretation your studio section does will not look the same as another studio section.  Exercise prompts are broad to allow for creative instruction and diversity of expression.

Project Highlights

Objective:

   The final project in the course challenges students to identify, develop a concept, and explain the idea of Place through a series of exercise prompts that address observational and experiential information.  Students will be able to define their understanding of Place through the accomplishment of documentation observations, reflective and creative writing, developing a conceptual intervention, and engaging various visual representation strategies.

   As per studio, this project explores 2D and 3D representation by exploring visual representation which may include recording with photography, text, observational sketching, map-making and experiential documentation, mixed media methodologies, and visual representations such as elevation, plan view, and cross section views.

Project Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

• MLO 3.1 – Demonstrate your interpretation and experience of the senses in the assigned location’s environment by the rigorous evidence of documentation, writing, and visual representation. (CLO 3 and 4)
• MLO 3.2 – Be able to produce a physical intervention on-site and/or as a model representation that conveys a concept as a response to your Place environment. (CLO 1, 3, and 5)
• MLO 3.3 – Be able to build the intervention with care, craft, and creativity of materiality and fabrication methods. (CLO 3, 4, 5)
• MLO 3.4 – Be able to produce a site map and visual diagrams that represent the actual or proposed pathways of interactions and the process of intervening and removal of the intervention. (CLO 3, 4)
• MLO 3.5 – Be able to produce final experiential drawings to visualize the intervention within Place that convey the recorded or intended interactions of the defined Place. (CLO 2, 3)
• MLO 3.6  – Be able to integrate a variety of imagery, text use, and media representation into the site map, visual diagrams, and experiential drawing translations to convey the intervention. (CLO 1, 3, and 4)

Exercises

1. Investigation: Take notice of the environment around you. Identify specific senses e.g., touch (texture), visual, olfactory, taste, hearing. Explore these senses within the environment and document them. Write descriptively about your experience and senses. Guided by your instructor, documentation may include, sketches (including experiential drawings), taking pictures, and/or recording sound. Your instructor will elaborate on what experiential drawings are and how to produce them.
   • Evaluation Criteria: Engagement with the environment. Thoroughness documentation of environment in photography, videography, section, and plan. Appropriate and rigorous representation of senses. 
     • MLO 3.1 – Demonstrate your interpretation and experience of the senses in the assigned location’s environment by the rigorous evidence of documentation, writing, and visual representation. (CLO 3 and 4)

2. Intervention: As per studio instructor, create a site specific intervention within/for your place being directly influenced by your work in Ex. 1.  Consideration of engagement of materials, fabrication methodologies, and scale will be explored.
   
   • If constructing a physical intervention on-site, follow all protocols of stewardship and site use discussed by your studio instructor and as discussed by the DsnS102 coordinated at the related Friday Lecture.

• • Evaluation Criteria: Response to the environment. Intensity of writing/text used to describe place. Documentation of the place. Care and creativity of environmental intervention and documentation thereof.
    • MLO 3.2 – Be able to produce a physical intervention on-site and/or as a model representation that conveys a concept as a response to your Place environment. (CLO 1, 3, and 5)
    • MLO 3.3 – Be able to build the intervention with care, craft, and creativity of materiality and fabrication methods. (CLO 3, 4, 5)

3. Representation/Hybrid: Create iterations of a site map and visual diagrams that represent your pathway and your process of intervening and removal of the intervention. Use your descriptive TEXT, sketches, photographs, recordings, and integrate them into your site map and visual diagrams. Produce final experiential drawings to describe your intervention including people/a person and other objects that interacted with your intervention. Text should be investigated. Font size, typeface, and the placement of the text (Composition) in relation to the site map and visual diagram. You can use both digital and analog means of production and integration.

• • Evaluation Criteria: Thoughtfulness in the iterative process of creating maps and visual diagrams, the use of typography and compositional strategies, the use of hybrid techniques, sectional quality of place, understanding of words through research and etymology, the use of various sizes, scale and placement of font, in relation to other text, images, drawing and materials on the site maps and visual diagrams.
    • MLO 3.4 – Be able to produce a site map and visual diagrams that represent the actual or proposed pathways of interactions and the process of intervening and removal of the intervention. (CLO 3, 4)
    • MLO 3.5 – Be able to produce final experiential drawings to visualize the intervention within Place that convey the recorded or intended interactions of the defined Place. (CLO 2, 3)
    • MLO 3.6  – Be able to integrate a variety of imagery, text use, and media representation into the site map, visual diagrams, and experiential drawing translations to convey the intervention. (CLO 1, 3, and 4)