IT'S RINGING ... for the students now as they enter the crucial phase of their projects before heading into their final exam finish in June. Now is the time to perform, Now is the time to draw the lines and convert loose ideas and project plans into concrete results. Bells are also ringing Now for the KaosPilots' chairperson, Uffe Elbaek, though for an entirely different reason ;-) ... and Now is also the time to ring for the first Alumni gathering. Happy reading!
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007
Sustainable tourism in Brazil How can the existence of the Pau Brazil National Park improve the life of the community that lives around it? The project aims to introduce sustainable tourism in relation with the opening of Pau Brazil National Park – to protect the local’s way of living, renew their pride in their unique, local culture and prevent environmental devastation. Team: Amalie Villesen, Fridda Flensted, Henrique Vedana, Nana G. Dall. Link: http://wiki.homebase.dk/PauBrasil Client: Pau Brasil National Park
FINDING THE INNER KAOSPILOT Team 13 and the May-projects At 2nd semester, the students face their first major exam – working in small groups of three to five students. The group decides whether to work on a customer project or develop their own project. Part of the project assignment is to - design and carry through the project - document the project (20 p.) and describe the process (5 p.) - make an oral presentation Read the short presentation of the May-projects/ Team 13 here.
Integration Incubator There is an ever-growing need in the world for greater cultural understanding and Denmark is no exception. There is one particular group of people who experiences vast marginalization, unemployment and social poverty and those are the ethnic minorities in Denmark. The team will in corporation with Startup Company create a set of entrepreneurial tools that can be implemented in socially challenged areas in Denmark. Link: http://wiki.homebase.dk/Incubator Team: Tone Evjan, Thomas Gjerulff, Jakob Klintrup, Anders Fredsø Olsen, Torben Brandt. Partner: Startup Company (www.startupcompany.dk) Giving voice to Bosnia youth Bosnia – 10 years after Looking for the positive stories in Bosnia, a nation still traumatized by the war 10 years ago, the team wants to give voice to Bosnia youth, their every day lives and dreams for the future. The stories will be told by photos and through interviews. Team: Hedvig Høysæter, Bo Steendahl, Anders Møller Toft, Nanna Wedendahl Frank, Hanne Hvattum.
The forest in the world – the world in the forest Documentary at Borneo The team is going to work with the Penans, the native people on Borneo – to document the massive pressure there is on the Penan culture and way of living due to assimilation programs and the felling of the rain forest. They will brand the issue as a hot topic for discussion among young people involving viral campaigns and a documentary. Team: Sara Wallen, Carl Johannes Borris, Bieke van Dijk, Christian Løken. Partner: Henrik Egede-Lassen, film producer. The KaosPilots Netherlands taking off With a strong belief that the Kaospilots school is an important contribution to the world, the team has decided to help the KaosPilot Netherlands to succeed attracting a sufficient amount of applicants each year. The team wants to create a solid student platform on 2 different levels: 1. Create an event to attract applicants this year, 2007. 2. Create a long term, sustainable concept in order to enable the staff at KaosPilot Netherlands to continuously attract applicants the coming years. Team: Mille Obel Højer, Nicklas Høg, Anna Edwall, November Sky. Partner: The KaosPilots Netherlands. (www.kaospilots.nl)
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007 ON TOP OF AGENDA:
SUSTAINABILITY Team 12 in Vancouver On the second year of the KaosPilot education the school moves the classroom to a place outside Scandinavia to create an educational outpost. During the outpost, the entire team works on a joint project as well as several minor projects for different clients. The oral exam is based on the team’s presentation of the projects and documentation.
Plan Institute Weaving the ties that bind The project is to design and facilitate 5 workshops to collect data about belonging. The purpose is to investigate how to end isolation and loneliness in the Western society. Team: Rowan Francis Simonsen, Maja R. Braig, Simon Anders Ulvund. Client: Plan Institute (www.planinstitute.ca/) Improving a microfinance program A new opportunity Through research and interviews the team is looking into possibilities for improving Vancity’s microfinance program. They will cover 4 foci: past and present clients, Vancity’s internal process, best practices in North America and organizations in contact with the un-banked. The research will serve as a basis for collaborative strategy planning together with Vancity staff. Team: Anders Ø. Hansen, Paola Ulland, Anders C. M. Winther, Peter Froberg Client: Vancity (www.vancity.com) Twice Shy Organic fashion Twice Shy is an organic fashion brand that wants to expand to Europe. The assignment is to develop a concept for branding and marketing their booth at the Bread& Butter fashion trade show in Barcelona July 2007. It is also to come up with guerilla tactics. The concept needs to be environmentally friendly, flexible and re-useable. Team: Stine O. Evjen, Tone Mong Haug Client: Twice Shy (www.twice-shy.com/)
Olympic Lunch Kit Eat up your bag! In order to deal with the waste problem of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the project is to investigate, explore and invent reusable food ware for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Team: Helene Thirstrup Hasen, Anne Toftelund Jensen, Pouria Ruhi, Ellen Client: Sustainability Group Ecotrust Group What can be done to make the carbon inventories more interesting? Making carbon inventories is a boring, tedious, and time-consuming task. But what if instead of going through piles of receipts making calculations about travels, electricity, heat and water bills, companies measuring their carbon footprint got the information directly from their providers? Like on invoices? Novex has agreed to do it, the team wants to show it is possible, they want more companies to do it, they want to create awareness in the general public, the want people to demand this information from their providers. The teams aims for making carbon inventories so easy that all small and medium enterprises in British Columbia can compile the necessary data in a blink of an eye. Team: Kamilla T. Kristensen, Zulma Patarroyo, Henrik Smedegaard, Anna Lena Schiller. Client: Ecotrust Canada (www.ecotrustcan.org/) Partner: Novex Couriers (www.novex.ca)
BCGEU Group What has work practices to do with sustainability? Looking at the work practices of BCGEU business, the project is to come up with recommendations and help implement initiatives that can create value and positive change in- and outside the organization in a long term perspective. Team: Signe Gro Jensen, Torhild Eide Pedersen, Mads Poulsen, Tobias Høher. Client: BCGEU Group. (www.bcgeu.bc.ca/) One Day – today Every little helps The project is to create a focused direction for a social marketing campaign, One Day – a Vancouver city initiative responding to the Community climate Change Action Plan. The aim of the campaign is to stimulate individual Vancouverites to become more sustainable in their everyday life through small steps. Team: Peter Liljeros, Malou Adler, Elisabeth N. Offernes, Kathrine Overgaard, Kamilla Ingibergsdóttir. Client: One Day (www.onedayvancouver.ca) The 2007 Outpost 1 City; 7 Projects; 30 Students The project is to work with sustainability through project work and to explore and learn about how to organize as a team.
Keep up to date with outpost at www.kaospilot.dk/docs/showArticle.asp ?id=464 or www.kaospilotoutpost2007.com/
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007
E H T AL Y N I R F IVE L E D
Tanz Die Toleranz If we can dance together, we can live together On May 11 2007, 240 young people will be dancing in the middle of Vienna, open air, for the opening of Viennas largest cultural festival. Their performance will be the main happening, and the overall theme around 'art with migrant background'. Besides following and assisting the open group of dancers, from refugees and homeless to ballet dancers, Ulrike’s task is to design and start up a variety of integrative dance projects afterwards. Student: Ulrike Levi Client: Caritas (www.caritas-wien.at/) The Playpen Dressing the fashion designers up for business The Playpen is a network and in-service training offered to Danish design businesses, to strengthen their competences within the more businessrelated aspects of managing a company. Graduate student: Thomas Frederiksen Client: fashion designers, trade organizations and the educational sector within the fashion trade.
Self eG. in BERLIN – a room for and by social pioneers Attracting social pioneers Self eG., Social Entrepreneurship & Leadership Foundation in Berlin, is establishing an organization that aims to release entrepreneurial spirit and stimulate social innovation through three core activities; self incubator, self academy and self consulting. Katja Cappelens project with self eG. is to frame a strategy for attracting social pioneers, to strengthen the relationships within the network and to initiate and implement a number of immediate first step community building activities. Graduate student: Katja Cappelen Client: Self eG (www.self-germany.de) Innovation Battle A social innovation city task force During three months, 4 task forces will be offering creative, action-oriented and innovative solutions to social challenges in the center of 4 different cities in the Netherlands. The main assignment is to create a business plan to test and improve a prototype – with a more permanent arrangement in mind. Graduate student: Rolf Arne Leer & Jo Torgersen Client: Amsterdam, Rotterdam and two minor cities
Team 11 crowning the achievements
The final exam is an individual project containing 3 phases: • the preparation of the project itself • written exam • oral exam
The exam is evaluated giving a picture of the student’s ability to work in the professional arenas of the KaosPilots as well as the student’s ability to handle the problems and professional challenges in the execution of the assignment.
Project Bambuser What happens when everybody is capable of starting her/his own TV-Channel transmitting 24 hours a day? A cellphone camera is the only thing that is needed to broadcast TV live. And may carry the potential to become as big as YouTube. Måns Adler and Jonas Vig have developed the concept – broadcasting the world-premiere with a 48 hours TVshow marathon at the internet and the local TVstation. Students: Måns Adler http://bambuser.blogspot.com/
Marketing strategy 2007/08 for Muskelsvindfonden A wake up call to counter discrimination Handicapped individuals deal with challenges in their everyday lives, most of us don’t give a thought. Developing a marketing strategy and campaign for Muskelsvindfonden, Louise Bech wants to attract attention to the issue – to counter discrimination of people with a physical handicap. Graduate student: Louise Bech Client: Muskelsvindfonden (www.muskelsvindfonden.dk)
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007
E TH AL Y FINIVER L DE
Maasai Entrepreneurship From nomads to entrepreneurs The project aims at improving entrepreneurial skills and ecological literacy among Maasai in the Rift Valley in Kenya. The Maasai are traditionally semi-nomadic people living from their animals, but due to the privatization of land and increased population, they now have to look for new ways to make a living. Graduate student: Emil Tin Client: Lorika Foundation (www.wildlifedirect.org/lorika/)
An Ode to Iceland Identifying Iceland Leveraging on historical facts, culture, religion, nature, future visions, every day life etc., the book-project strives to identify the characteristics of Iceland. The book will be a mix of photographs, illustrations and text. Graduate student: Diljá Ámundadottir
Code Blue Reducing global warming Code Blue is the name of a initiative involving a coalition of Norwegian environmental organizations and businesses. By using a carbon credit scheme, the project aims to significantly offset emissions in Norway, starting with a single “day zero“ in October 2007. Graduate student: Espen Sivertsen
Changing the game within the frame Process toolbox for Statoil In the wake of an increased focus at the internal processes at Statoil ASA, the project is to document the existing processes and contribute with new tools and methods for the processes – elaborating a final product description of The Good Process. Graduate student: Kristin Bjelland Client: Statoil ASA (www.statoilnorge.no)
Rumleskaft Upstart business Rumleskaft is a business designing and selling clothes for children between 0-6 years – via private home parties and a web shop. Thus, the project is to develop the overall concept of the sales, among others to plan the home party visits and to produce a website and the sales material. Graduate student: Mathias Lægdsmand Client: Rumleskaft
Marketing Coaching Interweave Keeping alive the organizational development Plan B is a consultancy company offering services within organization development. The company has developed a coaching and an evaluation tool complementing the consultant’s jobs in between the face-to-face sessions. Linda-Ida is project leader of the marketing project. Graduate student: Linda-Ida Herrdin Client: Plan B
Connecting Families Linking ties between parents in prison and their children The project aims to improve the relationship between parents in prison and their children – by means of books, activities etc. The project is part of a larger film project describing the institutions and individuals we leave society or somebody else to take care of. Graduate student: Maria Stevnbak Andersen Client: Jens Arentzen, project leader of the film project ‘Another Look’. (www.anotherlook.dk) The Voice of Broken Families Giving attention to depositing cases Every day, 7 children are removed from their biological parents, now and then on a loose and illegal basis. By establishing a choir of some of these families the project aims to – through music expressions – put a focus on the way depositing cases are handled and to create an experience network for the families. Graduate student: Morten Jørgensen Event marketing Developing a concept for event marketing Developing a strategy for launching an event marketing company specialized in strategic planning and development through event marketing. Focusing on the concept behind the company and the steps to realization on behalf of a range of Danish companies. Graduate student: Rasmus Dorph
Emergent Leadership Program The majority the minority and the minority the majority Recruiting 20 young people with minority background, the aim of Emergent Leadership Program is to bring cultural diversity into the traditional Norwegian Leadership Model – and educate young leaders who want to influence their own life and their surroundings with positive energy and wise actions.. The program is based on a collaboration between public, private and non-private sector organizations. Graduate Student: Elise Sendstad Client: Nansenskolen (www.nansenskolen.no/)
Bringing green technology to the world market. Turning environmental friendly invention into innovation The Norwegian technology company PressLock has developed a lighter and cheaper compressor supporting the next generation of heating and cooling systems 1300 times more environmental friendly than the current systems. This challenge is to take the technology to the world market. Graduate student: Karl Asmund Olsson Client: PressLock DA (www.presslock.no/)
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007
RINGING WEDDING BELLS
RINGING IN THE FIRST ALUMNI GATHERING
REVIEW RELAY RACE 2.0
On April 28 2007, Uffe Elbaek, chairman of the board, is getting married with Jens Pedersen. The wedding ceremony is taking place at Aarhus Raadhus followed by a private wedding party.
Career network or coffee club? Vocational brush up or social gathering? It’s all up to you to decide when we meet for the first Alumni gathering on Friday the 17th of August 2007 at 15.00 at Republikken Vesterbrogade 24B Copenhagen to discuss the future Alumni.
“It is not always an advantage to be ahead of one’s time. One seeks and searches and maybe even gets a thrashing from observers who do not themselves grasp where we are all headed….”
Many happy returns of the wedding day from the newsletter and the staff!
Kresten Schulz Jørgensen, The Royal Theatre’s director of communication
Sign up at Karin Barreth, karin.barreth@kaospilot.dk or call us at +45 8612 9522. Ps: it’s by the way the same day as the opening of the Index Award Exhibition 2007 – so come and have a look at the ‘KaosPilot design’ before the gathering... ;-)
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