Crits
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each crit, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Orientation
The first crit --- what a note is, and why most of the feedback you've been given so far probably wasn't one.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Revision
Taking a vague note you were actually given and rewriting it until it passes the test from week 1.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Visual art
The first peer crit round, on a piece of visual work, testing the specificity-and-falsifiability theory from this week's lecture.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Code
The same method, aimed at a pull request instead of a drawing --- proof that it wasn't an art-crit trick.
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Prose
A line-edit exchange, and the week the method has to hold onto the work while the room gets personal about sentences.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Portfolio check-in
No new domain this week --- a working session before Assignment 1, and a chance to test the note you're about to submit on a live audience first.
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Peer review
A mock blind review round, and what changes about a note when the person who wrote it doesn't know who's reading.
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Criticism as genre
Writing a note for strangers instead of for the person who made the work --- the restaurant review, the film review, the published take.
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
The brief itself
Turning the method on the thing giving the instructions --- this assignment, this course, the brief you were handed rather than the work you made from it.
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Receiving
The live clinic on taking a note without performing gratitude or mounting a defence --- the half of the skill nobody drills.
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Portfolio assembly
Laying out ten weeks of notes side by side and asking whether the method actually held, or whether it just felt like it did each week in isolation.
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Final crit
The showcase --- your finished portfolio, up in front of the room one last time, on the same terms the room has used since week 3.
Week 12 · 10 May 2027