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Eindhoven designs / volume two 113
Snapshots showcase
Emin Sinani
visualise relationships, for example
between learning activities, and how
these relate to the development of
their overall ‘picture’. In their showcase
they need to communicate how their
overall competence of designing and
vision on designing are shaped by their
competency profile and development,
the control over and path of their design
process, the overall quality of their
deliverables and their overall attitude.
An annotated
example
As may have become apparent, the
showcase should reveal a variety of
relationships, which requires modelling
of the structure of a showcase. What
is related to what in which way over
time? We will use the showcase of
Emin Sinani to discuss this woven web
of relationships presented through a
balanced mixture of visuals as well
as text. We do not claim that this is
the prototypical showcase, or ‘the’
template students need to use for
building a showcase. We merely use it
to explain how students can play with
the different elements of growth and
competence of designing, if they see
them as dimensions that can be used
interactively.
The homepage of Emin’s showcase
shows the different elements he uses
as categories in his showcase: goals,
approach, work, growth and identity
(middle picture). Moreover, he shows
his competency development for all
ten areas. The showcase uses time not
merely as a separate page, as is done
in most showcases, but it takes time as
an interactive dimension that can be
altered separately. This means that, when
shifting the slider to the left, you can
see the competency development of the
past and the overall categories (identity,
growth and highlights) used for this
time frame. Due to the student’s use of
different colour tones for development,
you can see in an instant where and how