Critique Practice
How you used the crit format across the semester — the feedback you gave, and what you did with the feedback you got
Due: 13 May 2027 · Weight: 15%
The brief#
Show that the crit format actually changed what you built, more than once, in both directions.
This course runs on the studio-then-crit shape from week 2 onward, and it’s easy to sit through eleven of them and let none of the feedback land. This assessment asks for the opposite: evidence that a specific piece of feedback in a specific studio changed a specific decision in your build, more than once across the semester, and that you did the same for at least two other people.
What you submit#
A short document (no fixed length, but three well-chosen pairs beat ten thin ones): for each entry, name the studio, the feedback, and the change it produced — in your own build, or in someone else’s, where you were the one giving it.
There is no marking table here because the thing being judged — whether feedback actually changed a decision — doesn’t decompose into separately weighted parts the way a build’s features do.
The due date sits a few days after the final studio, not on it: this portfolio is asked to cover every studio “this one included,” and you can’t write down what you gave or got in a crit before you’ve sat through it.
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 short written portfolio, not a transcript of every studio
- includes at least three before/after pairs spanning different studios, each naming the specific feedback and the specific change
- includes at least two instances of feedback you gave in someone else's crit
How it is marked
Judged on a short portfolio of before/after pairs you assemble across the semester — a decision going into a studio, the feedback it got, and what changed afterwards — plus what you said in other people's crits. Marked on whether feedback demonstrably changed what you built next, not on attendance or on how much was said.