European Design Upgrade 3.0

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An international project about rethinking modular housing. We aim to create efficient and affordable solutions for people who lost their homes due to war, natural disasters, or other hardships.

Mission

To bring together designers, architects, engineers, and entrepreneurs to create efficient and affordable solutions for the construction of modular buildings in countries affected by various emergencies and other disasters.

The project starts on March 19, 2024.

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Who is the project for?

Design, construction, architecture, and engineering professionals who want to gain new knowledge and skills in the field of modular housing and sustainable practices, develop their competencies, and contribute to the development of innovative housing solutions in Ukraine and abroad.

Representatives of businesses and municipalities seeking to expand the scope of useful contacts and cooperation with designers, architects and urbanists, as well as to engage in the production of sustainable goods and services, and to introduce the latest achievements in this area to the participants of the partner countries

Young professionals, university graduates who want to gain new experience, join the professional community, form a network and develop their own unique solutions..

On March 19 the program kicks-off with an online forum with experts and visionaries. to showcase the breadth and depth of the challenge.

Skills Upgrade Session

Learn human centred design, get insight into circular design and universal design. You’ll work in multi-disciplinary teams to explore in-depth one stage of modular building’s journey from sketch to construction to deconstruction.

Hackathon

In one weekend, you’ll work in multi-disciplinary teams to create solution concepts based on the research done during the skills upgrade session.

Awards forum

The best concepts from the hackathon will receive additional mentoring and support and will be presented to the world in the final awards forum as well as receive a cash prize.

Join EDU Talks about Radical Creativity at DDW in Zoom today 22.10. at 12:30 (Finnish time)

European Design Upgrade (EDU) Day at Dutch Design Week DDW 2020

LIVE STREAM NOW: EDU Talks about Radical Creativity!
Today 22.10.2020 in Zoom at 12:30 (EETS)

PROGRAMME

12: 30-14: 00 EDU TALKS. Radical Creativity. How can we break the borders?

Some potential debate points
• What is Radical design?  Everything needs to become Radical?
• What is Boundary crossing Creativity?
• Building bridges between countries and people – how to implement it in design communities?
• How to co-create over boundaries (social, economical, technological, cultural, environmental, political or legal)?
• How does serendipity take place in virtual collaborations?
• Creative Collaboration within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams?
• Creative Solutions for Global challenges – synchronous and asynchronous cocreation?
• Creativity within the universe – leaving the earth?

Welcome!

Background:

As part of the European Design Upgrade (EDU) initiative, Urban Mill in collaboration with KFund and Creative Brussels organized an Online hackathon on 28-30th of August, 2020. EDU programme included three stages starting with online courses from mid-June onwards, leading to a hackathon at the end of August, after which, the best teams received an opportunity to get visibility during Dutch Design Week in October, 2020.

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