Peer Feedback

Year 2

8 MARCH 2011 feedback proforma

STUDENT PEER FEEDBACK

• You should have received a report from the other members of your group by 22 February. If not, please ask them for it!
• Please study your group members’ documents and fill in one of these forms for each, then return it to them, copying in your tutor, on or before 8 March.

STUDENT: Annahita Mackee GROUP MEMBER FEEDING BACK: Rachel Dunscombe

Are there lists of key: FEEDBACK RESPONDANTS TO DATE? COLLABORATORS TO DATE? (where applicable) FINDINGS SINCE DECEMBER 2010? NEXT KEY ACTIONS?

IN YOUR OWN WORDS, PLEASE  PROVIDE COMMENTS THAT YOU THINK WILL CRITICALLY SUPPORT THE PROJECT. I feel the artefact needs to be defined further. I had a look at the online blog but couldn’t see a clear indication of you latest artefact and the iterative process. Is the artefact more of an idea, rather than a physical object? How do you intend to develop the artefact further? How has the feedback you referred to impacted on your project and idea? Is it defining the focus of your project or widening the scope of your research? Are you concerned that the breadth of your research may distract you from pursuing a single idea?  You write about taking a keener interest in the community aspects of your project, have or do you intend to gain feedback in regards to your artefact from a wider group of people than the crafting community? (e.g. people the crafts are aimed *at* and not the people who create the crafts)

IN YOUR ESTIMATION- WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE PROJECT? WHERE ARE THE GAPS IN, OR WHAT COULD BE THE THREATS TO, THE PROJECT AT THIS STAGE? (no more than 3 of each, please)

Strengths: Experimental artefact, an experience and not a finished piece? Thinking beyond the artefact, able to see it as more than simply a finished object. Blog, research. You have an extensive and thorough array of research and a very good record of your journey. Flaws: Moving on from the research phase. There is an impressive wealth of information gathered from your research but I feel that there is a reluctance to move on beyond this phase and to settle for any one idea long enough to take it to the next phase. Artefact. The experimental artefact as an idea and not an object specifically is interesting in principle, however I wonder if it will prove challenging to gain feedback when it’s purpose is to communicate an idea. How clearly can an idea communicate an idea? Is there a risk of an unclear message, resulting in confusion?