Handbook · 14 · Days 5, 10, 15 · Srishti Manipal Interim 2026

Three critiques

Critique rubrics. Each critique asks one question of the week's work. Critique 1 is where A1 is assessed, Critique 2 is where A2 is assessed, and Critique 3 is feedback on the way to A3.

seed critiques · depth 4

Critique 1: Day 5 · Fri 27 Nov
Critique 2: Day 10 · Fri 4 Dec
Critique 3: Day 15 · Fri 11 Dec
Each student: 13 minutes
Assesses: A1 and A2

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How they run

Each critique takes the full day: 9:30–12:30 and 1:15–2:45, about 13 minutes per student, with your peer group of four in the room. Everyone else keeps working in the studio.

3 minutes

You present

The position, the work, and the one thing you most need feedback on.

8 minutes

Questions

The facilitator and your peers ask. You answer; you don't defend.

2 minutes

Notes

Everyone writes. You leave with the notes, and one next step.

Critique 1 assesses A1 (20%) and Critique 2 assesses A2 (30%), both against the rubrics on the assessment page. Critique 3 isn't marked: it's feedback on the artefact before A3 (50%).

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Three minutes

Who is speaking.
The identity, its condition and its position, in two sentences. Don't read the manifesto unless it's Critique 1.
What's on the wall.
Point to the work. Say what it is and how it was made.
Your question.
The one thing you most need the room to think about. "Is it good?" doesn't count.

Pin up before your slot: the work, plus that week's log on one A4 sheet so reviewers can read it while you set up.

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Peer notes

In the last two minutes, each person in the room writes three lines and hands them over.

Notes card

For: [identity name] · Critique [1/2/3] · From: [your name]

What holds: [the strongest thing, specifically]
What's thin: [where the position or the work goes vague]
A question: [one you couldn't ask in the time]

Write about the work and the position, not the person. Be specific enough that the note is useful tomorrow morning.

Critique 1

Who is speaking? What do they care about? Would this voice matter outside the studio?

Bring: identity worksheet, manifesto, references, the condition it answers to, the week's log on one A4 sheet.

Assessed as

A1 · 20%

Submitted in your repository by 3:30 the same day, and presented here.

Rubric

The A1 rubric: four criteria, each at four levels, with their weights.

Critique 2

Does the system speak in the identity's voice, or could anyone's rules have made this?

Bring: running system, 20 outputs, parameter table, authorship log, the week's log on one A4 sheet.

Assessed as

A2 · 30%

Submitted in your repository by 3:30 the same day, and presented here.

Rubric

The A2 rubric: four criteria, each at four levels, with their weights.

Critique 3

Does the physical work embody the system, and does the material carry the identity's position?

Feedback only. The same questions are assessed in A3.

Bring: prototype, test log, production file, exhibition proposal, the week's log on one A4 sheet.

Criterion	Emerging	Developing	Resolved
MaterialCarries the position	The medium was chosen for convenience.	A reasoned choice, not yet visible in the object.	The material's behaviour carries the identity's position.
FidelityThe system, embodied	The object is a picture of an output, adjusted by hand.	The system made the file; the link is partly lost in making.	The object is clearly the system's output, translated with care.
CraftProduction	No tests, or a production file that doesn't pass its checks.	Tests done; the final file needs more work.	Tested, checked, locked, with a fallback planned.
ExhibitionThe zone	No idea yet of how the work will be shown.	A proposal that lists items without a reading order.	A clear proposal: what a visitor meets first, and why.

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After the critique

Photograph the notes cards.
Into log/, the same day.
Write that day's log entry about the critique.
Decided: the one change you'll make first, and why the identity would make it.
Start Monday with it.
The next week's first day begins from the critique, not from where you were before it.