GDMA Studio 2 | Spring 2020

Week 2 - Jan 30

In-class

  1. Announcements
  2. Review Index - pairs critique
    • Do not explain or present your thesis interest to your partner. To start, each person should take 5-10 minutes to read the others' index. Then write down your partners’ broad thesis interest in 1 sentence. Also write 2-3 specific terms that are sub-categories of the interest.
  3. Write list of delimitations
  4. Assign abstract / visual statement
  5. Individual meetings to discuss topic

Homework

  1. Macro: Write an abstract. Make a new Google doc in your folder in the Thesis Work folder on Google Drive. Add delimitations and abstract.
    add abstract + delimits
  2. Micro: Make a visual statement about one small detail of your thesis topic. Bring to class in any form.
    upload digital work

Inspiration

  1. Inspiration: Read the short essay "Dessert" by Colum McCann
  2. Container Corporation of America Posters
  3. Martin Venezky's The New Machinery and Constructions