Rietveld presentation
Last week Gabriëlle, course director at the DAI, had asked myself and Rana, a fellow student, to do a little presentation this week at the Rietveld Academie. What this was basically to be was an introduction to the DAI for potential future students, who would presently be about to graduate from their batchelors programme. For this we were to be paid €50 each, although in any case I thought it would be an interesting enough experience in itself. Not that I was going to refuse the money.
We had been of course a bit stressed about the whole thing, and had spent quite a while putting together a Powerpoint presentation with loads of photos and on-message titles, since we had been led to believe that we would need to talk for half an hour. It turned out though that it was more like ten minutes, and in contrast to us most of the representatives of the various other masters programmes didn’t have anything to show at all.
Of course it is just about impossible to explain what such a course as ours is like in ten minutes, but we did our best. There were almost as many speakers as students present, so I would not be too sure that it will generate an instant flood of invitations to the DAI.
