//week eight - exhibition

city board // CHUR, Switzerland

reflection... The lead up to the day of the exhibition morning had been quite stressful. Many late nights and early morning were experienced to complete the project on time. When analysing the processes our group went through to complete certain tasks the main problem that was apparent was the amount of time that it took to complete them. It seemed to take twice as long to get anything done, although i suppose that is what happens in group assignments as there is more than one opinion in everything that is done. This is definitely not a bad thing, as end result will often work out more resolved and of higher quality. Another reason it took longer to get everything completed was due to deadlines being set and then the work not being achieved by the deadlines, this made it difficult to proceed past certain stages of the project when we wanted to. One thing I have learnt from this time management issue is in group assignments always allow for more time and be serious about achieving deadlines. 

Another aspect that our group didn't do very well was split up sections of the project to each group member evenly. I think every time we tried to split up any sections we would do it without any planning, this would result in doubling up in results due to the same part done by two different group members. I think in future more planning and preparation should be done prior to breaking off and completing individual sections, our group was just a little to eger to complete there own sections and finish the assignment. 

Aspects of the projects that really worked well was the presence of diversity in the group members abilities, each group member had something different that they were good at which seemed to compliment each other nicely. Such examples included having half the group fairly good at writing and the other half of the group being good at graphic layout and hand on aspects of the project. Although after mentioning the diversity present in the group, we only realised this close to the finishing of the projects and didn't utilise this advantage as much as we could have. 

Overall this project was probably the biggest group project i have ever completed, also the most time and effort any of us had ever put into a group project. I will be able to apply lessons learnt such as; time management and making extensive plans, towards other future projects at university and in the real world. I have enjoyed analysing the cities and find there evolution very interesting.

During the actual exhibition it was very interesting seeing other groups final projects, considering the amount of time that you spend looking at your own projects, it was nice seeing other interpretations on the assignment. Giving analytical feed back on other groups projects and also receiving feedback was a really important learning experience, which gave our group different perspectives on the work we had done. 

Feedback from Tutors

// nolle map is in fact a figure-ground map - need to find floor plans of major buildings to put into the map, also change the scale from 1:6500 to 1:2000 in order to see this detail.

// put north point on page and scale on all maps

// possibly merge some of the maps as some are unnecessary as they don't show much 

// add more diagrams - as they are interesting features of the project

// they really liked the section which show a transformation from old to new

(this feedback needs to be corrected by the due date of online submission in two week)

Images of model...perspex indicates major landmarks monuments and churches within the city..