Two crits in two days! One for Studio, one for Tectonics. One very good, one very bad! Excuse me for a minute while I get something off my chest!
First up was the presentations in front of the Edinburgh International Festival Committee. As described earlier, we have been designing projection exhibitions demonstrating the past 60 years of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF). Thursday, we presented our ideas in front of the committee so they can select which ones they would like to see actually in the festival. Everyone’s proposals were above their expectations! They really enjoyed hearing all of our unique ideas.
What did we do afterwards?
Today we presented our models for Tectonics. In teams of 3-4, we selected a detail out of a magazine and had to build a full-scale model of that detail. My group chose a wall section with a built in stainless steel seat. So over the past few weeks we have been building this model out of the sections we found in the magazine. The today we presented in front of our professor, as well as few guest crtiquers. My focus in the project was how the pieces actually came together, how you attach the wood panels to the steel frame, etc. I learned quite a bit! What I didn’t focus on is what type of steel the design called for, what type of hardwood, aspects that didn’t come up in the actual construction of the model. Our professor asked the first team member how is came together. I knew that! He asked the next team member what works, what doesn’t work, and how was the model a challenge to build. I knew that! He then asked me to describe the type of steel used, what type of hardwood, what type of wood paneling… I had no idea! I was completely unprepared for those questions! And it ended with making that comment “so you have been working on this for 6 weeks and you have no idea what it is made out of”… crap. Now the professor doesn’t even acknowledge I exist! Woohoo!
On one side, it is true. I should have known those answers. But I didn’t. On the other hand, most of the other students couldn’t answer those questions about their own models either. But I got the one chain of questions I wasn’t ready for and ended up looking like a complete idiot! Even though I could have answered the other questions with flying colors! Aarg. Now I am not on the good side of this particular professor who is one of the most intense professors I have ever met.
In the up side, this is now an opportunity to prove him wrong about me on the next project… it just sucks dwelling over this in the meantime.
But what did we do afterwards?
- End rant. On to better things tomorrow! (St. Patrick’s Day!)
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