A small, early piece of work — propose the final project's theme and how it will combine three-plus techniques
Due: 30 April 2027 · Weight: 5%
The brief#
Before you build the final project, write down what it is, what it’s made of, and what could go wrong.
This is deliberately small — five percent of the course — because its job is to catch a plan that’s too big, too vague, or missing a technique, while there’s still time to fix it. It is not marked on how good the idea sounds; it is marked on whether the plan is specific enough that someone else could tell, from reading it, whether the finished project answered it.
What you submit#
One page: the theme in a sentence, the three-plus techniques and why each is there, and the single risk you’re least sure you can solve.
The spec
The brief poses the problem and leaves room for a response. The spec is the fixed part: what a marker checks. Some lines can be checked mechanically; the rest call for judgement.
- submitted by the deadline, as a one-page plan
- states the theme in one sentence
- names at least three techniques from the semester's pillars and why each is included
- names the biggest risk in the plan
How it is marked
Judged on whether the plan is specific enough to act on — a clear theme, at least three named techniques from across the semester with a reason each is there rather than just present, and scope that fits the three weeks of studio time actually remaining before the final crit.