05 Meeting in Oulu

The following topics were explored in the meeting in Oulu (see Oulu meeting aftermovie here):

  • Green spaces
  • Smart city space
  • Inclusion

During the week the students

  • finished the Green City project
  • participated in the workshop for dystopian and utopian literary visions
  • presented the videos on inclusion
  • visited the city space in Oulu city center
  • presented the Varna Charta to the Mayor of Oulu
  • participated in workshops at Oulu university (Tellus Innovation Arena, FabLab)
  • participated in a paper workshop where we each made our own recycled paper
  • visited Rovaniemi Sami exhibition and Science Center Pilke
Mind Map_Oulu_Visions of the future.pdf

Paper Workshop

We made paper from recycled materials. The paper was put to use as frames for the group photo.

Tellus Innovation Center

We visited Oulu University to see how technology can be used to design a smarter future. In FabLab Oulu we explored the possibilities of 3D printing and in Tellus Innovation Arena the students participated in a workshop on innovative thinking. The students were given a lecture on Arctic Pitching and had to work on a hands-on challenge. This activity inspired the Start-up event in Munich meeting.

Dystopia

The purpose of this exercise was to use literature to explore how an imaginative projection based on current trends and developments might play out in the future and then have the students produce their own creative writing to produce a vision of 2030.

Here are the products of this activity:


Green Spaces

We also did an exercise for green areas. The idea here was to get to know how much of your city is green.

Here are more results: Green maps

Inclusion

For the inclusion of the disabled, we asked our guests to show some of the solutions and problems for the disabled people in their school.

Here are more results: Inclusion

Rovaniemi

When we were in Finland, we had a one day trip to Rovaniemi. We went to Rovaniemi to see Santa Claus’ village and two important museums, the Arktikum Museum on Arctic regions and the Sami culture and the tree exhibition in Science Center Pilke.

Trip to Rovaniemi + Here we are at the Santa Claus’ village

Varna Charta

The students handed over the Varna Charta to the Mayor of Oulu.