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Pratt COMD-371 Integrated VisCom

Weeks 1-16
: Course Introduction
  1. Introductions & Attendance
  2. Class Syllabus
  3. In-Class Work Session: Exercise 1.1
  4. Project 1 Brief
    • Email Ian by Labor Day with three (3) stories that you might be interested in working with, and for each option, include 2-3 sentences explaining why
  5. Homework
: No Class (Labor Day)
: Conveying your Theme
  1. Small Group Exercise: Research Review
    • Form groups of 3-4 people
    • Present and explain your narrative, what are the major themes and issues that interest you about the narrative?
    • Review your initial research documents
    • Write down ten (10) specific suggestions from your group members for additional research sources and possibilities: What questions do you still have after hearing about your partner’s research?
  2. Discussion: Personal Geographies, Storytelling, Platforms
  3. Individual Exercise: Design is Storytelling spatial/temporal diagraming
  4. Homework
: Design Systems
  1. In-Class Group Critique: Research, Sketches, and Design Systems
  2. Homework
: Studio Day
  1. Studio Day In-Class Work Session
  2. One-on-One Desk Critiques:
    • Prompt: Commerce, Art, or Activism?
    • Who is the intended audience?
    • What do they want to get from this exchange or interaction?
    • Where is this exchange or interaction happening?
    • When: what is the duration or time commitment?
      1. Annie
      2. Glai
      3. Eyal
      4. Min
      5. Peg
      6. Trent
      7. Yi-Ting
      8. Bao Bao
      9. Nic
      10. Sabrina
      11. Rachel
      12. Yizhen
      13. Lin
      14. Kevin
      15. Troy
    • Homework
: Project 1 Critique
  1. Project 1 Formal Presenations & Group Critique
  2. Homework
    • Written reflection statement (3-4 paragraphs) on your Project 1 “Personal Geographies” feedback sheets
    • Your reflection statement should evaluate your work and presentation based on the four prompts, as well as summarize and respond to the feedback that you received from your fellow classmates
    • Print-out and submit your reflection statement next week, along with the three (3) original feedback sheets that you received from your fellow classmates
: Immersive Platforms & Dynamic Environments
  1. Discussion: Media, Channels, & Platforms
  2. Optional Reading: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud, 1993
  3. Shared Research Exercise: Immersive Platforms & Dynamic Environments
  4. Homework
: Mid-Semester Check-In Meetings
: Augmented Reality Technology Workshop
  • Small Group Critique: Three (3) refined Immersive Interaction/Dynamic Environment proposals
    • Write down on a piece of paper:
      1. What are the strongest aspects of each proposal?
      2. How is each proposal leveraging specific qualities of dynamism and immersion?
      3. What could be improved or developed in each proposals?
      4. What specific deliverables will you bring next week as development on your project proposals (prints, objects, models, web/app prototypes, videos, etc.)?
  • Augmented Reality Technology Workshop
: Presentation Preparation/Studio Day
: Project 2 Critique
  • Homework:
    • Written reflection statement (3-4 paragraphs) on your Project 2 “Dynamic Environments” feedback sheets
    • Your reflection statement should evaluate your work and presentation based on the four prompts, as well as summarize and respond to the feedback that you received from your fellow classmates
    • Print-out and submit your reflection statement next week, along with the three (3) original feedback sheets that you received from your fellow classmates
  • Extra Credit Opportunity:
    • Visit the exhibition Architecture Arboretum at Princeton University School of Architecture (Gallery hours Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm)
    • Write a brief reflection statement (1-2 paragraphs) of what you found interesting or memorable about the historic work on display, include at least one photograph that you took at the exhibition
    • Email your submission to Ian before the last class session of the semester
    • (Possible 5 points extra credit)
: Radical Cartographies
: Experience Prototyping/Participatory Processes
: Communicating your Work
: Junior Reviews in Intensive Class
: No Class (Study Day)
: Final Critique, Presentations Reviewed