Let’s get started!
We’re happy to announce we started this week with our kick-off of the project! Our team from left to right: Loes Bogers, project manager from the MediaLAB, Jelmar van Voorst, Sabrina Doornekamp, Linda Janssen, Aishwarya Babu (not in the picture). As you can see we’re all very excited to work on this project for the upcoming twenty weeks.
Our assigner: Stiho
Stiho is a supplier of construction, wood and plate materials. Customers of Stiho are construction companies active in building, renovation and the development of small new building projects. Stiho offers their customers delivery service. They can also collect their materials at one of the sixteen sales points in the Netherlands.
Together with the Giebels formula, supplier of hardware and tools, Stiho offers a complete range of products under one umbrella: the Stiho-building square.
The assignment:
Craftsmanship and knowledge about product and application modes are disappearing rapidly in the Dutch construction industry. Ageing is the main reason for this development. The loss of knowledge and skills is already causing problems in maintaining the quality of project in this industry. The question is how these skills and knowledge can be preserved and circulated to future generations through digital storytelling? The target group that Stiho wants to reach consists of construction companies active in building, renovation and the development of small new building projects.The media application that has to be developed must make this knowledge accessible to craftsmen at the ‘Stiho-building square’ (together with the Giebels formula) and at building locations.