GREAT WORK GUYS
After 6 weeks of an intensive research, a lot of discussions and a good developing process we were happy to say that we made it ON TIME. We finished our concept idea so we were able to submit our project to the RSA Student Design Award. I am really happy about that because it was a tough time and a lot of work.
Image: Showing an overview of the final boards (Hagen, 2017)
For the first submission (RSA Design Award) we needed to create different boards, which are addressing our big idea and our concept. Furthermore we needed to describe our idea within a proposal demonstrating that we are meeting the judging criteria including additional supporting material, which illustrates our development processes (RSA Student Design Awards, 2016/2017). We all agreed that we are leaving the part of putting all the information together into boards to the group members who are already graphic designers. After I thought it went quite well, three days before submission we got stressed because the graphic designers didn´t want to have support. I asked them a few times if I should take care of two or three boards but they said it will just mix up the layout, although there were still a lot of boards to do until the submission date. At that point I was really afraid that we were not going to make it. At the end they finished it somehow but all the discussion we had between these three days were really exhausting.
All in all this project was a good experience for me. I am really happy with the outcome and I’ve learned to work with people from another subject who might not understand a topic from my area at first time listening. Therefore I also trained my communication skills. However, I also developed my confidence in presenting topics in english even if it was just in a group meeting. Although the project was not about a subject within my career department I believe that it helped me regarding passive skills like group communication and trusting each other. So thank you guys!
Image: Hagen, V. (2017). Overview of the final boards.[photograph]. Authors own photograph.
RSA Student Design Awards. (2016/2017). The Challenge - Toolkit - Wearing Intelligence. Retrieved from http://sda.thersa.org/en/challenge/rsa-student-design-awards-2017/phase/rsa-student-design-awards-2017/track/wearing-intelligence-en.