Review 2 Brief
There are two components to Review 2: a one-page written document and an oral presentation to design faculty and graduate students.
Review 2 One-Page Document
48 hours prior to their oral presentation, Review 2 students must submit a one-page written document to the graduate advisor that briefly addresses the following:
a) the research or design problem that they have chosen to pursue their master’s project, and/or their goal, and the context out of which it arises
b) their rationale for addressing this particular problem (i.e., the reasons they believe the problem to be one worth addressing);
c) how other people have typically solved or addressed this problem (i.e., their “lit review” or review of design comparables/precedents);
d) how they plan to address the problem (i.e., their method or approach); e) what some of their hypotheses or proposed solutions are (i.e., sketches, prototypes, iterations) f) how their anticipate that their goal, rationale, method/approach, and/or proposed solution differs from that of previous people who have worked on the same issue (i.e., contribution to the field).
Review 2 Oral Presentation
The oral presentations for Reviews 1 and 2 are structured similarly. The graduate advisor acts as moderator for the reviews; the allocations of time listed below for the different portions of the review are approximate and may vary each semester at the discretion of the graduate advisor.
a) Any work pinned up or on display may be viewed during the first five minutes of the review.
b) The student makes an oral presentation for ten to fifteen minutes. In these presentations, students should address essentially the same points that they do in the written document (see above), but in addition, should introduce the faculty to the range of work they have completed to date in the program. Students should present images not only of final products, but also of their working process, the methods by which they make decisions, and works by others that have influenced their thinking.
c) The student fields questions from the GSC faculty and other approved reviewers for 30–35 minutes.
d) The GSC faculty and other approved reviewers exit the room to deliberate during the final 10 minutes of each review slot, during which students and non-voting faculty may continue the discussion, if they wish, or disband in order to allow the next person to set up.