INDEX:CIID Summer Camp 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
32 International students made their way to Copenhagen for the INDEX:CIID Summer Camp (August 10-31, 2007). The theme for the camp was Global Challenges and Intercultural Dialogue. The breadth of this topic was reflected by the participants, faculty and staff who came from 18 countries from 5 continents.
As part of the INDEX: 2007 events. the three week INDEX:CIID Summer Camp was held in order to encourage user-centered design (UCD) and innovation methodologies among future generations of designers. After one week of background and user research across 4 co-created categories: Awareness, Design for Society, Energy & Globalisation, the participants then divided themselves in to 7 project teams to concentrate on a brief of their own choice. While working in these groups, participants gained understanding of how to identify a problem, how to generate and test concepts, how to rapidly prototype solutions and how to best communicate their final concept to a relevant audience. Each team looked at a different issue on a macro/micro scale and tried to create solutions from a bottom up approach.
There are plenty of photos to look at on the INDEX: event flickr pool.
The official documentation will be available to download on Monday 17th October. In the meantime here are the original project proposals.