Thanks to Loes, we started this week on a high. The makey makey workshop was really awesome as we tinkered around with fruits, vegetables, trash bins and gestures… The whole idea of the workshop was to get hands on experience  about prototyping and how we could quickly design and fabricate circuits if required, later on during the course of the semester.

The fun part of the event you ask ??? Check the pics and I dare you….. Try looking at them with a straight face.

After an exciting morning, we were in for a treat. For lunch we had “Cachorro Quente” (a Brazilian cuisine); which was organized by Camila and Paula.

Tuesday was ” Meeting your Assigner day”…

So Ladies and gentlemen,  give it up for :…

Design Thinkers Group –

http://www.designthinkers.nl

These guys have a rather unique story; quite like the China town model. It was interesting to know that the Design Thinker’s Group don’t follow the stereotypical model of scaling up. Instead, they prefer to spread and grow and spread more. They are currently established in 11 countries across the globe and we had a beautiful afternoon with Marieke and Arne.

We started out with our Pecha Kuchas and then jumped right into a small activity to enlist atleast 5 values which should define our team.

CHARLIE AND THE MONKEY BUSINESS ILLUSION:

Charlie Mulholland was the man on wednesday with his super cool presentation skills and exuberance, we couldn’t ask for more. We had a more comprehensive understanding of our problem statement and how to better define our problem. Surrounded with hundreds of post-it stamps and pens which just refused to write anymore, we finally learnt : ” that a certain part of the brain which acts like a filter; made us miss the gorilla “… #gasp-out-loud!!