Diary of a Somebody

MADS/MAAI  PART TIME MODE 2010/11

Year 2 Spring Project

Diary of a Somebody

Issued Tuesday 22 March 2011

Presentation: Tuesday 3 May 2011

Introduction

Your Diary is one of the key elements of evidence of the process and the progress of your MA project. It helps to identify and communicate the new knowledge, both for you and for the subject area, which a project at MA level must generate.

While your Diary is a research tool that is personal to you in terms of its form, it must also be capable of revealing a clear narrative of your project to an outsider. Both for this reason and to enable you to monitor your own progress, you have been advised previously to include reflective summary pages (usually at intervals of between one to three weeks, depending on your level of activity at any stage).

Brief

On 3 May, mount a pop-up Research Diary Exhibition on the boards in the studio (the ones on the wall between the AV cupboard and the disused door). The exhibition should remain in place until Tuesday 10 May.

Individually: every student should exhibit an A2 display that communicates their project using primarily facsimiles and extracts from their Diaries, including one or more reflective passages. You should also include in the display: your research question and a three hundred word (maximum) project rationale, together with any other explanatory captions you think necessary.

Collectively: you should liaise to plan, curate, and design the Diary exhibition, including arriving at key decisions about format, identity, graphics, etc.

As well as being reviewed by your own tutor team, the exhibition will be reviewed by other course staff, by the Full-time cohort with whom you will be exhibiting in December, and by First Year Part-time students. Incidental outcomes of the project, therefore, will be to introduce yourselves and to expose your projects to key new audiences within the course.

Outcomes

The project will enable you to:

• Understand the key role of your Diary in the communication and evaluation of your project.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of your own Diary-keeping practice
• Share and exchange good practice with other students
• Understand the importance of working with others to prepare and mount an exhibition in which your project is an element.