DeSE Studio Pictures

Great Work!

Thank you DeSE students for a wonderful semester! It was great to see the culmination of your hard work over the past two days. Also, thank you again to all of the excellent critics who took time out to attend our review.

Please check back over the next week for video coverage of the presentations, which will be published on the course site as well.

Final Crit Presentation Guidelines

Is this thing on?

Well I'm definitely looking forward to seeing you present your hard work this semester next week!

Below are important notes on the final crit:

1. Please invite your guests ASAP - if you haven't sent them invitations yet, email your mentor and a rep. from your organization tonight! Faculty and friends from RISD and the greater Providence community are definitely welcome.
2. Everyone must arrive promptly by 10:25am for the morning session and 1:10pm for the afternoon session.
3. On both days, dress is business casual for presenters.
4. All presentations are due to me (via email or Dropbox) at midnight on the night before you present. Place your file in "Design Project 2 > Final Presentations."
5. Presentations should run approximately 25 minutes. This will be followed by 10 minutes of feedback.
6. We will be videotaping each presentation to be published on the website.
7. The major sections of the presentation should be as follows:

• Context: community background, organization background, description of problems faced
• Mission statement: the mission of your venture, why this is a compelling topic to focus on, precedent projects
• Design Concepts: description of the deliverables of your venture - the products/services/systems you have designed in response to the context and problem statements, how these designs impact the life of your target community
• Implementation and Sustainability: distribution, marketing, continuity of leadership, financial sustainability, metrics and evaluation of impact, future expansion of your venture

DeSE Final Crit Announcement

Assignment 9: Due 5/11

We're going to make a class poster for the final crit and on Tuesday morning we will workshop the design of the poster as a studio.

Please bring in one 8.5x11 printed portrait page split into four equal quadrants - the top two should contain images that you feel are symbolically appropriate of your project; the bottom two should be representative of type of demographic you are serving in your community (here's an example [PDF]). Sketches or stock images are definitely OK.

Some projects will not lend themselves well to this assignment. If you don't feel that you can adequately represent these ideas photographically while, for instance, maintaining the dignity of your community, then focus on developing a few abstractions instead.

Final Crit Presentation Schedule

Overview

• 10:30 - 4:30 on 5/25 and 5/26 in the Chace Center
• 35 minutes per student (20 minute presentation, 15 minute response period)
• 2 minutes prep between students
• 1 hour lunch period

Tuesday 5/25

• 10:30 - 11:05 Annemarie Gugelmann
• 11:05 - 11:40 Ji Yae Park
• 11:40 - 12:15 David Zacher
• 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch Break
• 13:15 - 13:50 Lucy Stein
• 13:50 - 14:25 Felipe Sarmiento
• 14:25 - 15:00 Hyun Ju Lee
• 15:00 - 15:35 Jason Lee
• 15:35 - 16:05 Cassie Mauer

Wednesday 5/26

• 10:30 - 11:05 Justin DeSilva
  
• 11:05 - 11:40 Kathleen O'Donnell
  
• 11:40 - 12:15 Louis Rigano
  
• 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch Break
• 13:15 - 13:50 Saba Ahmed
  
• 13:50 - 14:25 Maria Floreena DelGado
  
• 14:25 - 15:00 Peter Simon
  
• 15:00 - 15:35 Esther An
• 15:35 - 16:10 Soomi Lee
• 16:10 - 16:45 Gazal Goenka
• 16:45 Closing remarks and acknowledgement

TinyTech India

Tonight I came across an interesting company out of Gujarat, India, called TinyTech. They manufacture small scale food processing and energy equipment with the intent of helping to foster decentralized economic/human development.

I like their spirit.

Here's an excerpt from a manifesto of sort by Gopal Desai, a director at TinyTech:

MY TIPS FOR HEALTHY AND HAPPY LIFE

(1) Remember that our life is not for unlimited period. The most definite and sure and certain event in our life is our death.

(2)Money is just similar to blood pressure. If it increases beyond certain limit, it creates trouble just like high blood pressure. If it decreases below certain limit, it creates trouble just like low blood pressure. As we remain healthy between narrow range of blood pressure, same is with money.

(3) Attitude of earning more and more money is not good, but attitude of job satisfaction is more important. Never do work at the cost of health. Keep helping nature for all for ever as long as you can help.

(4)Real happiness is generated by serving poor people, trodden people, needy people. Please read mahatma Gandhi’s books & you will understand very clearly how to turn remaining life in right direction.

(5) To become really happy, be satisfied & think always in free time to do something for the most poorest similar to one you have ever seen in your life.

(6) Give most importance to Food , Shelter & cloth. Do something so that lots of employment is created & atleast all people in this world get these 3 basic necessity. This is only possible thro, micro, small, family Or village level industries.

GOPAL DESAI