Brief
Course Outline
The unit, including final assessment and feedback, will run for the ten-week duration of the Autumn term.
The course will begin with an explanation and discussion of the brief coupled with an introduction to the client. Groups will then spend some time undertaking a task designed to engage them with the environment and architecture of Second Life.
Professional practice sessions will introduce theoretical debates around group practice and roles in collaborative working. As a part of this you will agree, as a year group, the assessment criteria for assessing your individual collaboration at the conclusion of the unit.
Work will then be concentrated on drafting a detailed design brief which, after a process of review and feedback, will be submitted for assessment, as a printed document, at the end of week four.
Design proposals, including detailed architectural plans, in response to the brief will be expected to be available for review, and feedback, as digital presentations at the end of week six, with the deadline for the final builds in Second Life occurring in the middle of week nine. Individual teamwork assessments will be submitted at the end of the same week. Assessment and feedback on the unit for all students will take place in week ten.
There will be a series of sessions in the use of the Second Life building tools in weeks four, five and six. In world tutorials will take place on site, in Second Life, as the builds progress in weeks eight and nine.