Project Info 5 weeks
Umeå Institute of Design: Communication for Co-Creation Course, 2019 Collaboration Partner: Västerbotten Museum Team: Ashutosh Biltharia, Manu Revi, Juan Pablo Farré and me. Mentors: Nicholas Torretta
My Role
Ideation, Preparing and Leading one station at the Co-Creation Workshop, Conceptualisation, Graphic Design, Model building, and Painting the Pattern onto the board.
News
The Museum really loved the board game and wanted to buy it off us but we decided to donate it to the kids section of the museum.
Personal reflection and what I have learned
During this course we were given a very broad brief with a lot of topics, which we were supposed to tackle all in one exhibition. Looking back I believe it would have been good to revisit the brief and narrow it down earlier (if possible) and work with a more focused brief.
Assuming this was not a student project and this was in a professional environment with a customer in the industry I would have considered to try and together with the customer revisit and re-formulate a new brief, that maybe still had all the elements but in a more prioritised order.
What was special about this project was that the class was not decided in set teams as usual but it was up to the whole class to get together but also have the freedoms to leave and form new groups as the project evolved. This had very positive but sadly also very negative side effects to it. Having the choice to join people you know you’re skills and personalities as a team go well together took away a lot of stress and pressure but surely also took away some challenges and possibly lowered the learning outcome that come with them. Overall having less commitment and weaker bonds between team members sadly also lowered the respect towards classmates and team members in certain cases.
I would overall describe this project more so as a great experiment, which one the one hand taught me the value of freedom and knowing who you work with well but also the importance of a good level of respect no matter how strong a bond or commitment towards others is.
More to come soon…