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The Expo, The Finale.

Before the Expo: Here we are, at the final lap and the final leg of the program. We are in the final sprint and we have to deliver so much, from designing the exposition to submitting the research paper! This is the time to showcase all the work we had done so far. The road […]

We can see the Iceberg!

Happy New year! A little recap: After the review for the sprint 4, we were clear about our goals for the coming sprint. Our clients liked the concepts and ideas we provided them and they were ready to implement it in future as long as we made certain improvements and provided them with the implementation […]

This is an Organizational design

We have this culture at MediaLab Amsterdam wherein each team prepares Monday-lunch for other teams. It is a cycle and this time just before the sprint review we had our turn to prepare the Monday-lunch for everyone. We were going to prepare Indonesian cuisine and Andrew was the head chef (he was just following his […]

Expert’s view and Concepts

We have a translation session at the mid of every sprint. This session is held particularly to gain insights and information from an expert in a field related to the work we are conducting during that sprint. This is an opportunity to showcase our status in the project and get reviews about it from an […]

Inspiration from Field Research

We have been keenly following ‘Precious Plastics’ since the beginning of our project with KLM Scrap Plaza. Hence, we decided to set up a meeting with one of their chapters ‘Precious Plastics Den Haag’ at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Suzanne Koops manages the ‘Den Haag’ chapter for ‘Precious Plastic’. She was a very kind […]

The first meeting and Sprint 1

Scrap Plaza is a small unit inside the KLM corporation. It was founded in 2006 as a maintenance sector for the aeroplanes that flew via Amsterdam Schiphol airport. Initially their focus was just to maintain the planes. Gradually they also started providing materials such as metal, rubber and electronics parts to the recycling industries which […]

Maker’s Sprint

For us, Sprint 0 started on 5th September 2017. This was a demonstrative sprint hence called as sprint 0. It consisted of only 3 days. We were suppose to build a prototype that would initiate a discussion. First day was dedicated for brainstorming and ideation. Second day was dedicated for prototyping the ideas and final […]

SCREAM for SCRUM

  It was the beginning of the fall semester at MediaLAB Amsterdam for all of us. It was exciting, fun filled and overwhelming to start the internship program. We took part in workshops on various brainstorming techniques and design processes. We participated along with everyone irrespective of the teams. Here we engaged in team building […]

We are teamKLM2017 :)

We are TeamKLM2017 and for us the journey began on 30th August 2017. We are 4 members from different walks of life at MediaLAB Amsterdam, Netherlands. We are Andrew Lekahena from Netherlands, Camila Ferreira from Brazil, Sarita Lavania from India and Priyanka Bambarkar from India.