Week 6: Your Model Exhibition and Peer Review.
Last week you prepared your Weebly site and we asked you to be self-critical by taking five criteria into account.
In the next unit, you will submit your Weebly site to the peer review unit, but before that, there is one more preparatory step. This step will indicate how to value the work of your course colleagues in a balanced and constructive way.
In the next unit, you will submit your Weebly site to the peer review unit, but before that, there is one more preparatory step. This step will indicate how to value the work of your course colleagues in a balanced and constructive way.
- When you give feedback to some of your fellow participants, you need to interpret their work. Design review is to a certain extent a subjective activity. This means that there will always be differences in judgments. It is not like a mathematical sum. However, by providing the five sub-criteria and by setting up some guidelines, we can try to come up with useful and fair peer review results.
- It is important to take enough time to understand the guiding themes of the others and to feel and understand in what way they have approached the challenges. Take time to 'read' the models, images, and texts on the Weebly sites.
- You will be asked to score their work using the following criteria and by choosing the different levels of points:
Craftsmanship, Creativity, Levels of Scale, Presentation, and Design - You will be asked to provide some written feedback. This is most important because real attention and honest, precise, and constructive feedback is much more valuable than a high score without any substance. It is also a good idea to not score everything at the same level. With a bit of variation you indicate what you really like in the work and where it still can be improved.
- Keep it personal. Although this is an online course, behind every screen there is a real person. So in your feedback you can address your views in the 'you' form as opposed to the 'he/she' form. Remember this and think about what feedback you would prefer to receive. Being personal means being humane, but if you prefer, you can still communicate anonymously.
Inviting the outside in! - My California Dream House
My project is a simple rectangular one-floor building with a typical garden located in the Californian countryside, consisting of a light glass and steel structure. The idea is to be able to close all parts of the shell structure with additional sliding polycarbonate panels for privacy, or to open them all up and thus inviting the surrounding landscape into the building as a kind of natural tapestry.
By making the model mostly of natural materials from my household, I tried to highlight those panels by choosing plastic wrapping material that is also translucent (was quite a challenge in AutoCAD Remake and SketchFab!!). As a landscape designer, I tried to do all the architectural assignments, I especially enjoyed the VR applications. Under the given time restrictions and my limited expertise in building construction and details, I did my best to improve some parts in week 5 and to finish all the assignments in a playful but still professional way. Please also have a look at week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4 as well as the additional pages I created!
I am looking forward to your constructive feedback - I am sure it will help me improve in future! :)
Heike Kaiser
Landscape designer and planner
San Francisco, California
By making the model mostly of natural materials from my household, I tried to highlight those panels by choosing plastic wrapping material that is also translucent (was quite a challenge in AutoCAD Remake and SketchFab!!). As a landscape designer, I tried to do all the architectural assignments, I especially enjoyed the VR applications. Under the given time restrictions and my limited expertise in building construction and details, I did my best to improve some parts in week 5 and to finish all the assignments in a playful but still professional way. Please also have a look at week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4 as well as the additional pages I created!
I am looking forward to your constructive feedback - I am sure it will help me improve in future! :)
Heike Kaiser
Landscape designer and planner
San Francisco, California