Assessment Step 9

We're nearly there...

Well done everyone. 

I think we had a really interesting session this morning. Comments made by our two guest juries were most helpful. We had asked them to be specially  clear with their assessment and to focus on your communication skills. You must all understand their opinions in this sense, and please try to improve in the future with all their valious advices. I personally think they were absolutely accurate. You must all be specially aware that our audiences in the future will not be mainly architects so it's most helpful to hear how our ideas are understood by a non-proffesional audience.

But Joaquin and I, we both know your designs pretty well and we also know how you normally explain yourselves. So, regarding this background, we both want to congratulate all Design Teams for their presentations. Well done, well prepared and good effort. Nevertheless, don't forget to continue practising and improving. You'll see your results pretty soon. We feel specially proud of those of you who are terribly shy and that have shown great difficulties in expressing their ideas in front of a big audience. Understand this exercise as a first step in a long, long way to go. We hope you've realised it's not that difficult, and that 80% of success relies on specific preparation. Good work!

As always, there are differences between groups. We obviously don't have any excellent presentations. But the eight of them were at least correct. We think, for different reasons, groups 1, 2,6,7 and 8 have done slightly better than design teams 3, 4 and 5. But what is most important is that all of them have demostrated an important improvement. 

We'll make a brief comment on each one of the presentations:

Design Group 1: Great improvement by Jesús! Continue practicing and you'll finally get rid of that monotonous voice entonation.

Design Group 2: Great visual supporting documentation! Well done Bárbara.

Design Group 3: Control your nerves Carlos. Much better, but still some way to go. Preparation is the best medicine for those nerves

Design Group 4: Clear presentation. A little more preparation would allow Sergio not to have to improvise so much. Anyway, he's also demostrated to have enough habilities to manage the situation

Design Group 5: Correct but rather cold presentation of your design. Good sketches and final images

Design Group 6: Very effective way to introduce your inside images. Very good idea!

Design Group 7: Great start... got a little lost in the second half. Use some of the ideas you've seen today.

Design Group 8: Great profit of the material you had produced. Good final sprint...

Our advice is that you should pay atention to this kind of sessions. Remember other students presentations and try to build a severe critic of your own one. Learn, copy, try to improve and complete future strategies for the same type of assigment. 

Let go for our jury... Final step! Really...