Mind The Gap
Mind the Gap – breaking the ice between cultures, backgrounds and systems! No, it is not a catchy phrase from London underground staff warning passengers about an upcoming train.“ Mind the Gap” is an international 10-day“ workshop”, built around one central project challenge. There is often quite a big gap between creative personalities and technology that stands in the way to finding mind-blowing solutions. Therefore this project intends to mend the barrier by bringing together students from both sides. Can the cliché that designers and developers speak a different language be broken? The idea is to develop a web-app prototyping project. Students work in teams and run through the complete process, starting from the generation of ideas, developing the application and presenting the final product. Sounds like a piece of cake? In 2011, 8 ICM students hit the road to Ghent, a lovely city in Belgium where Spanish, Danish and Belgium students joined their efforts to generate stunning projects. 24 people, 3 countries, one place and many individual expectations and feelings. The challenge was:“ how to boost the image of volunteering”. Some might associate brainstorming with a boring technique that takes the users nowhere.
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