Graduate proposal guidelines

Word count 1500 max.

What do you want to make?

A general introduction to your project, including what form it will (or might) take.

How do you plan to make it?

Describe how you will go about developing your project and research through reading, writing and practice. In other words, through a combination of these approaches, you will explore questions or interests you have laid out in your general introduction. In this section you can help us understand how your project will come together on a practical level and talk about possible outcome(s). Of course, the outcome(s) may change as your research evolves, but it's important at this stage to have some concrete idea of how your project could come together as a whole.

What is your timetable?

Please include a timeline of which steps you will take and the order in which those things will be done, in other words, what needs to be done and when.

Why do you want to make it?

Describe your motivation for undertaking this project.

Who can help you and how?

List the people that could help you realise your project and how they could help you, in other words, the support you hope to receive.

Relation to previous practice

Describe how your research connects to previous projects you have done. Here you can use the descriptions you made during the Methods seminar or make new descriptions.

Relation to a larger context

Describe how your project is situated within a larger context of practices or ideas. Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project. For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets. Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others. (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase. At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)

References

A list of references[1] used in the text supplemented with key works that are currently informing your practice.[2]

[1] As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.)

[2] Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.)

Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal. For example use images to reference your work or that of others.

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