First week of my minor ‘Designful innovation for 1 billion people’

September 15, 2013 at 10:52 am

When I start to think about a blog. I was wondering if I had to start to write in English or Dutch, because my English is not very well. But this minor is a sort of international and I want to learn something and share my blog with everyone! So the decision was easy. I’ll give it a try. Start to write in English.

The first week of the minor was a little bit chaotic. I don’t know what to expect. I hoped this first week made something clear. The first day of the minor was a bit hard for me, because I came back from a festival called ‘Into The Great Wide Open’ it was a beautiful experience but with less sleep.

The first day we talked about the exercises we have to do. And the second thing was have to make something from this study area and we’ve got 24 hours to see the first changes. We started with the ‘college room’. First we gave in teams little presentations and you saw everyone had many ideas. But the question is: ‘How do we implement it?’ the difficult part for students like us. Nice to see and to observe. I didn’t have much energy to join the conversation but I observed and let others speak. The conversation continued at Facebook where we make our plans. Student Lucas took the natural leader role, he was the one that came with a ping ping table. Very nice!

So, the study space will get more and more creative. Let the brainstorm begin!

On the picture in our new area: Cathelijne is drinking one of the new healthy smoothies from downstairs. It looks like she enjoys it.