The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction

ASSESSMENT BRIEF AND CRITERIA

BIDI0002: Digital Innovation Collaborative Practice

Introduction:

This document includes important information regarding your summative assessment.

Please read this document in full and refer to it while preparing your assignment.

This coursework has a weighting of 100%

Assessment Brief:

Critically consider the conditions that are giving rise to (and hindering) the formation

of new social practices, within the context of digital collaboration. Your assignment

ought to be supported with academic research and applied examples of collaborative

practice. Explore the changing collaborative context of a particular case study of your

choice, provide a brief overview of the design concept, how the concept might change

existing ‘orders’ and ‘practices’ within collaborative systems, and speculate on its

implications for the changing way-built assets are managed. Reflecting on the social,

cultural and ethical aspects of this new paradigm as architects, engineers, project and

facilities managers come into dialogue.

Reference

Carpo, M. (2017). The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence. London: MIT

Press.

Use of AI:

The following category of AI can/cannot be used:

Category 1 – AI cannot be used.

Category 2 – AI tools can be used in an assistive role.

Category 3 – AI has an integral role.

For examples of each category please go to Using AI tools in assessment

Category 2 - Students are permitted to use AI tools for specific defined processes to support the

development of specific skills as required by the assessment, such as data analysis, transcription,

and translation, generating insights, giving feedback on content, or proofreading content.

.

Students must acknowledge where they have used AI within their coursework.

Assessment sequence and weighting:

Summative Assessment

Weighting

(%)

Corresponds to

Learning Outcomes

Essay

100% L1 – L8

Format:

1. Introduction

The Introduction should briefly state:

• the problem statement,

• the objectives of the essay,

• provide insights regarding the essay’s digital collaborative (DC) perspective,

and

• summarise the essays structure.

2. Framework Development

Using academic literature sources, critically analyse the prominent formation of social

practices within DC discussed in the literature:

• Socially led design framework: Develop a framework informed by academic

literature. Select 1-2 key propositions

• Present evidence of such propositions being applied in their collaborative

context, in a practice-theory case study analysis.

• Prompt: Thinking about why the process of collaborative practices inform

insights (‘orders to practices’) impact digitalisation.

3. Recommendations

Your last section should provide:

• A Critical Analysis: Critically analyse strategies within the AECO context to

provide the built environment managerial recommendations

• Managerial recommendations as a reflection of your building use analysis. The

recommendations should be policy driven items in jargon-free language. Vague

statements should be avoided.

• Prompt: when writing your recommendations, think about how it is practical

and actionable. See also: https://www.researchtoaction.org/2013/07/how-to-write- actionable-policy-recommendations/

A table of recommendations can be submitted – see example below:

Marking Criteria:

Section Weighting

Quality of Writing 10%

Knowledge and research

35%

Argument, synthesis and

analysis

35%

References

10%

Overall presentation 10%

Word Count/Length

Your paper should be 2,000 words excluding references. Your paper should draw on

theory and concepts and this must be referenced according to the UCL student

handbook.

Leeway for the word limit

Submissions with less than

%10 extra words (whichever is

smaller) won’t be marked down

for exceeding the word limit

Type of content Counts towards the word

limit

Table of contents Not required

Reference list or bibliography at the end No

Cover page No

Diagrams, annotated pictures, figures and any

other visuals

No

Appendices No

Abstract Not required

Acknowledgements Not required

Footnotes Yes

Tables in the main text No

In-text citations Yes

In addition:

• Use clear Headings.

• Your paper should not go beyond the word limit

• You are strongly advised to use tables and figures to summarise key points of

the literature review or findings (wherever possible)

• Use Harvard style for referencing sources

• Arguments are made stronger if they are supported by evidence (i.e. source)

• Introduce and cross-reference any table or figures in the main text

7. Penalties:

Penalties

(as per UCL Academic Manual)

- Penalties due to over- length cannot be more

than 10%

- Over-length penalty

cannot take the student’s

mark below ‘Pass Mark’

- In the case the

coursework that is

submitted is over-length

and is also late, the

greater of any penalties

will apply.

- Any use of AI that

exceeds the permitted

use in this assessment

brief will be subject to

UCL Academic

Misconduct policy and

could lead to penalties.

8. Assessment Support:

The module team will provide support through the following channels

• Assessment clinics

• Answering your questions on the forum

• During office hours (see Moodle for details)

The UCL Academic Communication Centre runs a free service offering

workshops, tutorials and support sessions to enhance academic writing and

research skills. These services are available for undergraduate and postgraduate

students in the Joint Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences,

Maths & Physical Sciences, Education & Society and the Bartlett Faculty of the Built

Environment:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/languages-international-education/ucl-academic- communication-centre

UCL Student Union English Language + Writing Support Programme supports

non-native English-speaking students with their academic writing and speaking. Peer

Tutors run several different types of free activities to help you with your written and

spoken English, including a regular programme of workshops, one-to-one sessions

and 'Coffee and Conversation' which is a weekly opportunity to get together and

practice your spoken English with other students:

https://studentsunionucl.org/advice-and-support/support/language-writing-support- programme

9. Academic Integrity:

UCL requires high academic standards in order to maintain trust and confidence in

our world-leading research and teaching, as well as the individuals who work and

study here.

'Understanding Academic Integrity course for students' is UCL's online and self- paced course is designed to help students to develop good academic practice for

completing assessments.

Through your UCL education you will become an independent learner and

knowledge creator. To be successful you must develop good academic practice

skills and avoid any type of Academic Misconduct.

See here for the most common types of Academic Misconduct with Case Studies

provided for each definition: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/exams-and- assessments/academic-integrity/about-academic-misconduct

10. Submission Details:

A 2,000 Word Essay uploaded to Moodle by Wednesday 30th April 2025 at

3:00PM (UK Time).

11. Feedback:

Feedback is an extremely important part of your academic development at UCL, and

the Department is committed to providing appropriate support. We aim to ensure that

the assessment mechanisms allow students to demonstrate the skills and knowledge

they have gained and that the assessments are carried out fairly and consistently. It is

a priority of the Department to provide students with suitably instructive and timely

feedback.

The Department aims to return assessed work within 1 calendar month of the

submission deadline date. We expect students to have had the opportunity to reflect,

and act, on their learning from the feedback in subsequent assessments.

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