courses /fall 08 /danm 210 /syllabus /proposalguidelines

Proposal Guidelines

1. Narrative description of concept

• Outline major issues, areas of creative or scholarly practice engaged
• Social context of the proposed project
• Identify and describe audience and intended impact of project relative to this audience
• Include a one-sentence description of the project at the top of the narrative

2. Design narrative - should address the following questions

• What problems/challenges are you are addressing?
• What original contribution are you making toward addressing these problems or challenges?
• What do you hope people will learn/experience?
• What are existing approaches? In other words – what is already out there?
• How existing approaches informed your work?
• How are they lacking?
• What are the design principles/rationale behind your proposal?
• What guides your design?
• Design constraints and process
• Description of key features
• Scenarios - Provide concrete example (or two) of how your project will engage users/participants/audience

Appendices

1. Design documents

• Mockups, visualizations, flowcharts
• Technical specifications (space, equipment, power, materials, security arrangements)
• Example projects – images, analysis

2. Development Timeline

• Total and individual times needed for conceptual design, prototyping, construction, presentation, and documentation
• Number of people needed for various parts of development and how long each is required
• Identify parts of project that can be developed concurrently and ones that must take place sequentially.

3. Budget - Estimated costs for:

• Materials
• Equipment - purchase & rentals
• Labor - for development, installation/presentation, strike
• Transportation / Shipping (including crate purchase or construction)
• Space rental (office, studio, and/or rehearsal space)
• Administration(postage, phone, printing)
• Publicity
• Documentation (video, still image, sound)
• Salary - your time
• Contingency - safety amount if actual costs exceed estimates, usually 10%

4. Bibliography

• An extensive bibliography relating to the project that follows MLA standard formatting.