Week 9 Crit: 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.
19 April 2027
Bring#
A brief you’ve been given this semester — an assessment page, a session spec, a marking criterion — and a note on it, written as if it were a piece of work someone was asking you to review.
The crit#
The room picks apart a handful of briefs from this course, this semester, this week’s Peer Review Exchange included, on the same terms as every piece of work before it: what’s specific, what’s vague, what would prove a complaint about it wrong. A brief that can’t survive its own method isn’t one this course gets to keep without saying so.
Leaves with#
A note on a real brief that names the specific clause doing the vague work — the same shape of finding as every other week, aimed one level up.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- your note is aimed at a brief, rubric or instruction, not at a piece of work made in response to one
- it names a specific clause or omission, not "the brief is unclear"
Teaching team
- Marisol Quaye — convenor
- Idris Fenn — tutor