Intensive Program 2014
Call For Student Participation
CO-CONSTRUCTING HEALTHY EXPERIENCES 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.
HOW
Students will be trained to apply the basic rules, methodologies and design processes for participative prototyping. 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, produce 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.
CHALLENGE
Cardiff has transformed from a mid nineteenth century 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 ‘cradle 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 longer 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 unemployed or collecting state welfare payments. This IP will look for solutions to the long-term effects of economic 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 manpower resources.
WHO This project brings together a multidisciplinary pool of students from the disciplines of interaction design, industrial design, sports & movement & wellness, occupational therapy, psychology and electromechanical engineering with local end-users.
WHEN & WHERE This 2nd edition will be hosted by Cardiff Metropolitan University in Cardiff, Wales, from 23 March till 4 April 2014. Student participation in the costs is 60â‚Ź (including workshops, accommodation and transport)
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS Lectures & workshops are build around following themes: empathy, creativity, prototyping and change management. Participation in this IP workshop will be granted 3ECTS points.
MORE INFO Contact your local IP ambassador within your University before 28/2/2014. Online registration is required (deadline 28/2/2014). www.howest.be/coconstruct
HOWEST Becky.Verthe@howest.be TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ZVOLEN renebadura@gmail.com VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL Bram.vanderborght@vub.ac.be HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES s.de.boer@pl.hanze.nl CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN GBarham@cardiffmet.ac.uk BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY alinasrusu@yahoo.com ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE timba@hr.nl DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY A.E.Pohlmeyer@tudelft.nl