feeding back
What exactly is feedback and how can we get better at it?
‘feeding back’ is our bachelor thesis which aims to improve the understanding of feedback and its implementation inside design mentoring in the setting of design studies. Feedback is the basis of how projects, tackling complex problems and nonlinear design processes, get evaluated and understood. Adapting the frameworks surrounding how feedback is given, to better fit the needs and workflows of designers working within those design processes, is vital. Looking at dynamics, such as ownership, power structures and communication, we implement interventions in the form of tools that target those, thus breaking current habits and building new frameworks. Apart from a rough time frame of half a year, nothing much was given to us. The planning, conception and the whole process was in our hands.

At first we did a two week sprint of our idea and came up with a feedback machine, which was a "Wizard of Oz" Prototype. So it didn't actually worked, but we could test how people would react to it. After that sprint, although we didn't want to, our process started with simple paper prototypes which we quickly tested in as real a scenario as possible. From there we went on to mentor our peers in feedback-sessions, and finally implementing and testing our final ideas in the mentoring from the other semesters with students and lectures. From that knowledge we accumulated, we developed a toolbox with a talking cube and a visual timer which can help and support better mentoring. Further we developed a mentoring structure which can be applied to every mentoring inside the design field for improvement of understanding and utility of mentoring. Further we fully designed our thesis book, because we wanted something which would help looking through out thesis, seeing our project, without spending too much timer reading our whole thesis. The book consists of two separate books which are interlinked to each other. One is the written thesis the other is a story book with the images from our process.

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2022
ZHdK
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