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Curating & Taste

Week 6

Week 6 Curating & Taste

Week 5 Presentations
POV Collection Exchange
Self-Assessment
Improve a Project
Studio & Deliverables

Home Schedule 10-Week Overview

01"Dear Data, Design Vision"Individual
02"An Iconic Opening"Dyads
03"The Heirloom"Dyads
04"Everything Is a World"Dyads
05"Invisible Senses"Dyads
06"Curating & Taste"Individual
07"Get Out of Your Head"Dyads
08"The Ugly Baby"Dyads
09"Less But Better"Dyads
10"Who Are You Now?"Individual

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Home ScheduleWeek 6 · Monday

Originality Feasibility Embodiment Peer Favorite

Sensory Experience Delivery

Groups deliver simultaneously across the room
10 min experience + 5 min discussion per dyad
Film everything — the video is the primary submission

Vote all four categories.

Home ScheduleWeek 6 · POV Collection

Your Curation Journal Is Data

Week 1 was data about your behavior (Spotify, camera roll)
This is data about your taste (the designs you chose to collect)
Week 6 is the mirror image of Week 1. Then: data about behavior. Now: data about taste.
What patterns do you see?

Behavior Data

Taste Data

POV Statement

Home ScheduleWeek 6 · POV Exchange

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POV Collection Exchange

1

Present your curation journal: 8–10 design examples + why you picked each

2

Swap with a partner. Write down the patterns you see in THEIR collection

3

Give it back. Compare: what did they see that you didn't?

Read

Annotate

Return

Compare

Home ScheduleWeek 6 · Self-Assessment

Self-Assessment

Reach

What do you reach for? Physical objects? Digital? Experiences? Systems?

Avoid

What do you avoid? What's consistently absent from your collection?

Surprise

What surprised you about your own collection?

Mirror

What surprised you about what someone else saw in it?

Use these four questions as the starting point for your 500-word reflection.

Home ScheduleWeek 6 · Wednesday

Improve an Earlier Project

Choose one project from Weeks 1–5 to improve.

Your portfolio so far: Dear Data, An Iconic Opening, The Heirloom, Everything Is a World, Invisible Senses.

Pick the one with the most unrealized potential — not the one you're least proud of.

Resources available:

Human-OnlyCraft techniques, material upgrades, redesign approaches, drawing/layout skills

Human-AICo-Lab tools, AI-assisted rendering, AI feedback/critique, generative exploration

You choose your approach.

Home ScheduleWeek 6 · Wednesday

Practice for Weeks 8–9

In Weeks 8–9, you'll do a full "Version 2" project over two weeks.

This is a warm-up: can you look at your own work critically and make it better?

V1 and V2 side by side — the comparison is the point.

Home ScheduleWeek 6 · Wednesday

Studio & Deliverables

75 Minutes

Improve your chosen project
Document the before and after
Clean up your portfolio entries

Midterm POV collection (curation journal + 500-word reflection) due end of this week.

Monday
Sensory experience presentations + voting. POV collection exchange.
Wednesday
Choose a project to improve. 75 min studio. Document V1 vs. improvement.
End of Week
Midterm POV collection: curation journal + 500-word reflection. Portfolio cleaned up.
Monday Week 7
Get Out of Your Head — return to your Week 4 interviewee with AI.