Main Advisor and OP Reviewer: Nicole Vosper
Associate Name: Sophie Viandier
Output Packet: 4      
Phase/ALC: BSc IESD Yr1
Date Submitted: 17th February 2015
Date Reviewed: 5th March 2015
Mark: 85
Grade: A
Time Spent on Review: 3 hrs + 0.5 for review forms

Dear Sophie,

A huge thank you for sharing your work. The pictures fed my soul and it was a pleasure to learn more about you and your important work. 
 My review is broken into these sections:
1. Evaluation Form (attached)
2. Comments Per Section

Required next step:

None. 

Recommended next step

	•	If you are showing this design report to others in your town, I’d highly recommend uploading a large version of your design work so it is readable 
	•	Highlight some of the key information more explicitly e.g. bolding text showing how much money is spent/wasted etc.

Comments per section 

Specifications and Abstract

Extremely clear front page, great layout & choice of information placement
Maybe Goal before boundaries & partners
Great collaborative project with all those partners, must have been quite a complex design process and good experience of processing a lot of information!

Thanks for the description of what a waste transfer station is!
Fantastic clear mindmap overview of the core report
Great to include a glossary

Survey

Well done for including google survey
How could you have increased the sampling in future? How representative do you feel it is?
It seems like the survey harvested a lot of input and ideas - a great example of bottom-up decision making and design
Well done for including feedback on the survey itself
Very nice table comparing the data - super professional
Interesting the wage comparison between the workers

Analysis
It would be nice to be able to zoom in a little bit more to the pictures.. maybe include a slightly larger file size?
Maybe have the images opening in a new window for ease of navigation/so you can compare frames easily
Its good practice to have a north arrow and scale on any drawing/map that is part of a design
I like the good/bad views labels
What are the arrows on the landform map? Looks like a label could be slightly off the pic
Analysis and assessment large map - again, needs to be bigger to be able to view it well
Nice that it has a label/key/scale - I’m happy now :)

Climate info - great use of table
Where is your data from? Do you have a link to the source?

SWOT analysis
What do you mean by staff, proactivity/physical abilities?
Like the helpful/harmful analysis
Great simple tool used in an appropriate context
Strong observations of external threats/outside sectors affecting the system

Ooohh very nice interactive chart
Graphs are a powerful indicator of how costs have gone up & revenues from recycling have gone down… how can you communicate this information to people more clearly who don’t like graphs/maths/stats? Maybe bold some sentences or do some bullet points with the key points from each graph?

You are powerfully evidencing the case for a re-design of the transfer station
Really like the commentary at the end of each page

Design
Its challenging to see the design in detail as the image is so small! I think flickr is resizing them or you have uploaded smaller files - I think larger pics will be essential to communicate your ideas

Great you have shared your draft design too. What feedback cycles did you go through between the draft and final design?
Lovely drawings of the proposed building… worth labelling the design maybe? So people know what materials are being used?
Can see your commentary on the design title, scale etc - it would be quite easy to create another ‘layer’ using photoshop and gimp to add these elements on electronically

Implementation
Incredible overview of clear next steps.
Great that so many recommendations generated from folk that know the transfer station intimately
Brilliant use of xmind to illustrate 5 year plan
If you had more time/energy/capacity/a sophie clone then ordering in terms of priority can be really useful for clients… also putting financial price tags on things, but I know this level of detail is incredibly unlikely at this point in the design process

Maintenance and monitoring
All clear. How could one track the impacts of the re-design if its implemented?

Conclusion

Great photograph
Great poems!
Maybe add your contact details if you are plugging for consultancy work ;)

Commentary
Project timeline - what an absolutely incredibly comprehensive, well organised and impressive amount of work!! You must have gained huge project and information management skill flexes during this output
Great use of blank pages to structure report - simply great report writing in general, clear who your audience is, succinct, very visual, professional… wonderful work
Strong professional and personal observations, looks like you have some big decisions. Self care/prioritisation I think is always a constant challenge of boundary testing! Andrew (Director of Gaia U), once said on a call.. the challenge is not so much burning out, its about our capacity to recover (that is the main indicator of burnout)

I think your project timeline shows you have completed a huge amount of work in a condensed period of time.. I don’t know how you could have managed your time/promises any better!
You’ve definitely achieved your goal of ‘endurance with project work’
HELL YEAH reading those emails!!!!!!!! I love the transition of opinion. I hope you feel great (a little smug)

I’m sorry again I couldn’t make your Gaia U Call. Looks like you got some great feedback

I love the week by week analysis in xmind. Very holistic observation.

Reflections
Powerful learning journal entries, thank you for sharing

Image Gallery
Maybe link to some of these images from the main report, or at least in the beginning
Make sure you get some pics of all the implementation in the next few years :)

Supporting Evidence: Analysis
Link more to this section from the core report.
Great poster!
Great workshop design & handouts
Interesting your observations of being a ‘young teacher’ what do you mean by this? Just age? or experience? Did you feel dominated/bulldozed or was it ok?
There are a few things on this page where there isn’t the full permission rights - NRRA certificate of attendance & activity reports (and one above without a title, not sure what it is)

Supporting evidence: resources and glossary
Again, a few elements without google permissions
Well done for listing your resources and commenting clearly on them
Do you ever use zotero to track your websites or resources?