Due: 12/21 at 9am
What
The final project for Simulations, Models, Twins should be three things:
- A simulation, a model, or a twin (a twin is a record, "this is how it is"; a model is a rule, "this is how it works"; a simulation is a run, "this is what happens, if").
- A piece of representation, or any visual artifact that is crafting an argument, describing an observed process, building worlds, or testing how a proposal might perform in the "real" world.
- Your piece of representation should not claim any kind of objectivity, and should acknowledge its limitations.
This assignment is preceded by the Draft Proposal, due 10/22.
Agent kit
If you are working with a coding agent, download smt-final-kit.zip and unzip it into your project folder, the same way as the kit in Tutorial 4. It is similar to the Assignment 4 kit, but it knows what the final project is and when things are due. It will suggest stages to break your project up into instead of a single-prmompt, and will keep track of them in a file called PLAN.md. You can read it here.
Schedule
At the proposal workshop on 10/22, we will assign which day you will be presenting on, and put that here. The schedule for the rest of the semester varies depending on that:
11/12: Show and Tell Day 1
- Week of 11/5: Progress meeting, asynchronously from class. Questions about process, data, etc. Schedule an office hour with me (feel free to make them back-to-back, so one hour total).
- 11/12 presentation: The expectation is that the mechanics of your project are mostly figured out. It's fine if you're still working through things.
11/19: Show and Tell Day 2
- Week of 11/5: Progress meeting, asynchronously from class. Questions about process, data, etc. Schedule an office hour with me (feel free to make them back-to-back, so one hour total).
- Week of 11/12: Progress meeting, asynchronously from class. Final questions about process, data, etc. It's fine if you're still working through things. Schedule an office hour with me (feel free to make them back-to-back, so one hour total).
- 11/19 presentation: The expectation is that the mechanics and data are completely figured out, and locked. From this point on, the work is representation.
The show and tell presentations are for sharing your work with a supportive community of practitioners in the class, and it is okay to show things in progress (while paying attention to the above notes about expectations). At the presentation, I will give feedback largely structured in terms of what I think should be in the final project. The expectations stated there vs. what is ultimately submitted will be the largest factor in the grade of the final project. That said, the objective of the course is to experiment and grow how we think and represent complex spatial topics, and any expectations for the final submission will be given with that in mind.
12/21 at 9am: Final project due
Please note that this is a hard deadline. I have to have grades submitted by 12/23, and projects will be graded according to what is live on the website at that time.
Submit
The final project is a webpage, with the same upload options as Assignment 4. The form first asks what you are submitting: one index.html (the default), or a website you hosted.
- one self-contained
index.html(no network requests, under 50MB) and a screenshot of it for the gallery; or - the link to your hosted site and a screenshot of it for the gallery
- a two-sentence gallery text
If anyone is uncomfortable with their work being publicly available, let me know and we can figure out another method.
Submission
Submit your work below. It appears under Student Work.