ip co construct2014 call for students
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Intensive Program 2014
Call For Student Participation
WHAT An Intensive Programme (IP) is a short programme of study which brings together students and teaching staff from higher education institutions from all over Europe. This IP trains future young professionals in creating relevant and sustainable products/services that improve health and wellbeing through end-user development.
HOWStudents will be trained to apply the basic rules, meth-odologies and design processes for participative pro-totyping. Furthermore, theoretical aspects will be taken into consideration in the real life practical cases built around local end-users. In a co-construction process, end-users are closely involved in the design time, pro-duce time and usage time of new health concepts. The concrete goal for each student team is to make the life of one individual end-user more happy and more active by designing a product, a tool, a concrete activity or a service.
CHALLENGECardiff has transformed from a mid nineteenth cen-tury industrialised coal exporting port and provincial town into a vibrant city. However, just 15 miles north of Cardiff are the Welsh Valleys. 200 years ago the people who lived there were the makers of the ‘cra-dle of the industrial revolution’, their coal mines and blast furnaces supplied the iron and steel that built the modern world and even the railway lines for the Trans-Siberian Railway. Today the Valleys are no long-er black with soot and coal, and once again the area rests in stunning and wild countryside. But they have the highest number of people on sickness benefit in the UK. 20% of the population have no qualifications whatsoever, and 25% of the population are unem-ployed or collecting state welfare payments. This IP will look for solutions to the long-term effects of eco-nomic inactivity. These may be connected to the health and well-being of the local population and will look to develop products and services which may help to develop the areas many natural, industrial and man-power resources.
CO-CONSTRUCTING HEALTHY EXPERIENCES
HOWEST [email protected]
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ZVOLEN [email protected]
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL [email protected]
HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES [email protected]
CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN [email protected]
BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY [email protected]
ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE [email protected]
DELFT UNIVERSITY OF [email protected]
WHOThis project brings together a multidisciplinary pool of students from the disciplines of interaction design, industrial design, sports & movement & wellness, occupational therapy, psychol-ogy and electromechanical engineering with local end-users.
WHEN & WHEREThis 2nd edition will be hosted by Cardiff Metropolitan University in Cardiff, Wales, from 23 March till 4 April 2014. Student partici-pation in the costs is 60€ (including workshops, accommodation and transport)
MORE INFOContact your local IP ambassador within your University before 28/2/2014. Online registration is required (deadline 28/2/2014).
www.howest.be/coconstruct
LECTURES & WORKSHOPSLectures & workshops are build around following themes:empathy, creativity, prototyping and change management. Participation in this IP workshop will be granted 3ECTS points.