Friday, January 9, 2009

1st milestone - all groups presented their own idea

Friday 9 January - Day 5 in MOD

IDEAS PRESENTED. Every MOD student group presented their idea today in lively ways at BI Nydalen Campus. I was impressed by two things, at least,
1) how enthusiastic and focused you/the group did the 5-10 minutes idea pres, and 2) the creative feedback and generous input activity in the class this morning. Well done!

Ideas were promising, too... and looking forward to the further elaboration of them!

It is worth noticing the way you did all this - focusing on sketching the group idea (at this 1st week stage) and visualizing it on a poster etc. and presenting it to each other. I think you picked up this way of working quickly! It became highly stimulating.
Hope you have a nice Friday night,
Birgit

Visit to DogA Monday 12 Jan 2009

Program 12. januar 2009 - Meeting directly at Designcenter of Oslo
*DoGA, Hausmannsgt 16.

08.30-09.00 Servering av kaffe og boller + litt mingling

09.00-09.20 Velkommen til huset og om DOGA (Jannicke Sæther, DogA og Birgit H. Jevnaker, BI)
09.20-09.30 Om Norsk Designråd (Ingjerd S. Jevnaker eller Grete Kobro)

09.30-10.00 Om Norsk Form (Lennart Johansson)

10.00-10.45 Design for all (pres in English): Inkluderende design som innovasjonsstrategi (Onny Eikhaug)
10.45-11.30 Case / designprosess / rådgivning (Knut Bang)

11.30-12.00 Spørsmål og svar

Ansvarlig for dagen: Birgit og Ingjerd i samarbeid med ovennevnte



Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Permission to publish on the blog, send email to me!

Hei alle grupper,
Bare send meg på epost 1 av gruppemedlemmenes epostadresse som kan funke som kontaktperson til gruppen for bloggen (om dere ikke alt har gjort det), så oppretter jeg tillatelse til å legge inn stoff på bloggen asap. (så snart jeg kan!). (in Norwegian).

One in each group:
send in your email adress to me, birgit.h.jevnaker@bi.no and I will organize permission so that you can submit stuff from the group directly on the blog.

Birgit

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Monday, January 5, 2009

MOD 2009

Monday 5. Jan 2009,
first day of BI+KHiO MOD 2009!
Today we started a new round of our joint course MoD - standing for 'management of design' and the related themes that students and faculty may wish to put into this collaborative learning project, sometimes also called BI+KHiO. We all met at KHiO's old building in Ullevålsveien 5. For many this was the very first day, a cold Monday, at school in the New Year. Thus good to meet in what we experienced as a pleasant, relaxed atmosphere at KHiO!
So far we have 18 groups and about 59 students participating from BI plus a growing number from KHiO incl. also visiting exchange students, it will be clear tomorrow how many we are all together!

The first day offered
- meeting of everybody with formation of groups,
- introduction into the program and its goals and work methods,
- brief intro into the origin, vision, and background of MoD,
- brief intro into the main task for this joint learning project and the opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration BI + KHiO
- an introductory lecture into an extreme & inspiring project (cf. Reidar's White Hat),
- orientation about the 3 weeks program and hand outs of the detailed program,
- brief introduction into the creative or innovation challenges
as well as project management challenges and possibilities.

Birgit has some more copies of the program, and Kristin is handling the group composition and updates of groups.
Dori is handling who is contributing what and how from KHiO (He arrived late Monday due to an emergent flight problem so this is sorted out Tuesday).
NB See also updates and announcements as well as handouts/course documents on BI's blackboard student website under BI course Visual Communication and Design! An updated group overview is already posted there.

At the end of the day we had a tour around the various workshops and studios of KHiO.
Thinking back on this day, I learned f.ex. that
...it can be triggering to think big, yet be able to put it in a hat when working with ideas.
...And that project management is no rocket science but can still be worthwhile for a creative project.
... That Edvard Munch used one of the graphic printing machines still at KHIO, and this old one is even today preferred by some artists at KHiO.
...Also, everyone has already some techniques, though few can actually make a piruette, so how can we use all those techniques including the scarce varieties...
Birgit