Presentation Deliverables for 3/23

Dear DeSE students - it was exciting to see your progress earlier today, and I'm really looking forward to discussing your projects in the crit next week. Team presentations will be delivered starting at 1:10pm on Tuesday 3/23 in the BEB Lecture Hall, first floor.

At least one member of each team must show up at 9:50am to test out your presentation on the projection system and sign up for a presentation time slot. If you plan to include audio, please tell me so I can have speakers on hand for you.

Presentation format

1. Presentations will run 30 minutes each with 15 minutes of Q&A and consist of a Powerpoint or PDF along with models and any other tangible objects that your team will demonstrate.

2. All members must contribute drawings, graphs and other content to the presentation while maintaining a visual style and layout that is consistent across slides.

3. The sections of the presentation should be as follows:

• Problem Statement / Description of Status Quo: Introduce your area of study by providing visuals that depict or diagram the problem you are focusing. Wherever possible present a clear sequence of events via drawings illustrating scenarios in which community members presently encounter these problems, and what the repercussions are in terms of quality of life, environment, health, etc. Highlight causal relationships and explain your interest in the particular aspects of the problem scenario you have chosen to focus on.
• Precedents: You will provide evidence from prior projects that are directly or indirectly related to the design(s) you are proposing. Briefly discuss the communities being served in these precedents, the methodology they employed and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the projects overall. Highlight any areas that you specifically adopt or reject in your design(s).
• Design(s): Present visuals that demonstrate the key features and performance of one or more designs that address the problem by building upon precedents as well as your own research and ingenuity. Emphasize the way that the designs fit into the lives of your users, directly illustrating use whenever possible to help bring the audience into the scenario you are presenting.
• Plan for Implementation (formerly called "Support"): This section should address your plan for the implementation of your project, including proposals for navigating the web of constraints that form the structure of any social venture. Please propose at least one concept for each of the following areas, if they are applicable to your project: funding mechanism, training plans (in the case of DIY projects), market research, user testing of prototypes, distribution, maintenance, promotion, measuring the impact of your project and evaluating the success of a given design (metrics and evaluation).
• Proposal for Future Research: Describe your pending research questions, the impact that the result of this research could have on your design proposals and the tools you would propose using to address collect this information.