The first Masterclass was about teambuilding and brainstorming. It was held in Enschede, at the University of Twente. After having a coffee and talking to our coach, the light experts and the other teams that participate in the Light Challenge we went to the Smart Experience Lab. There we listened to four presentations. The first one was about teambuilding and was held by the coach of the Dames Waterpolo Team 2008, Robin van Galen. He told about the different phases of the Tuckman Theory: a theory to systemize your teambuilding. It is a useful way to deal with the different characters in a team, and to combine the best qualities of people in order to realize the main goal, in our case: to win the challenge. The second presentation was held by one of the winners of the Light Challenge 2011. She told the story about her winning concept, The TriON-concept in Assen: a new design of street light combined with the trees in the street. The trees blocked the light coming from the old lantarns, so they made a combination of the trees and a new light system. The other two presentations were held by men who worked at companies specialized in lighting concepts. They told about the concepts they developed, like a street light with colors that can be controlled by the residents, and an alternative way to light up a highway in a safe and sustainable way. This last concept was realised by a company called Tauw, you can find information about it here: tauw.com
After the break we held a brainstorm session together with our coach, with people working at companies and with light experts. Each one of us wrote down or drew his/her ideas for a specific concept in the Agavestraat. Not being held back by legislation and other restrictions, we came up with some creative concepts. One person in the brainstorm group suggested that we should combine our ideas. After that we were able to formulate a question which contained all of the elements that we wanted to pay attention to: make the street more cozy, more meaningful to residents and divide the light in a more effective way.
