We believe that sharing creative knowledge can advance our society as much as businesses. The resources of the near future lie in education, training and knowledge. There is a growing need for creative problem solving, making creative education an important part of a curriculum both in schools and businesses.
At mellem, we customize design workshops to your specific needs, goals and outcomes. The focus of design workshops is to educate problem solving through innovative processes. One could perceive design thinking as a continuously updated toolbox to decode various challenges creatively.
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Workshops
OUTDOOR DESIGN WORKSHOP
In collaboration with Lycée Technique Nic Biever (LTNB), we launched a 3 day and night workshop for two 9th Grade classes.
Create your own camp, build a tent for 26 students and teachers out of a tarp and some strings, dig a fire pit and keep the fire burning were just the essential needs to cover for the own comfort. While sleeping outside (we had frosty april nights!), the brave students got a basic overview of the effort and resources it takes to be surrounded by a warm home and a meal on the table.
Apart from running their daily life, the individual groups rotated through various workshops: Build your own stool and plate to eat on by the fire, design and build a wood fired brick oven and make your own bread and pizza, create an imaginary musical instrument that makes a sound (and play a concert by the campfire at night).
Besides being exhausted and happy at the end of the day, this workshop aimed to educate on the basic needs - keep warm and dry, build an oven and prepare food, exchange and discover personal skills. But it also created an awareness of most people around the world having to go though this kind of process without any resources at hand - live with nothing but ingenuity and improvisational skills to survive.
The realization that there is a difference between throwing a frozen pizza in the microwave and having to build your own oven from scratch and prepare the dough and ingredients for your own pizza was also quite the eye opener.
You kids rock!
As designers, we are problem creative solvers. Our job is it to come up with the next innovative concept and deliver the surprisingly unexpected beauty.
Every project is feasible, small or big.
Talk to us about your next project.
