Final Presentation, elop*7 alpine mutations - Focus Finhaut

The access code for the each presentation has been emailed to each participant. Introduction

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Team Lahmu, Final Presentation

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Team Hillary, Final Presentation

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Team Messner, Final Presentation

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Team Tabei, Final Presentation

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Team Terray, Final Presentation

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Team Steck, Final Presentation

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Review II, Day 01, Team Steck

Review II, Day 01, Team Steck from Berner Fachhochschule BFH on Vimeo.

Hi everyone, 

Check this info.

The New Monte Rosa Hut (nicknamed "Mountain Crystal") in Switzerland was awarded the Holcim Awards Bronze Europe 2008. The autonomous alpine shelter was authored by Professor Andrea Deplazes from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich). The 120-bed hut sits 2,883 meters above sea level, and is currently the most complex wooden structure in Switzerland. It generates over ninety percent of its own energy - excluding cooking - and is covered in a shining aluminum shell with a photovoltaic system integrated into its southern façade. Warm air and water are both generated by solar collectors installed in the grounds. Ice melt is collected to provide hot showers and flushing toilets, with a bacteria-based
microfiltration system allowing the graywater to be reused for the toilets. With so much to coordinate, software developed atETH Zurich operates the hut's technology. The New Monte Rosa Hut just closed for the winter in September, but will reopen tohikers and mountain climbers in April.

Websites:

http://architecturelinked.com/profiles/blogs/mountain-crystal

http://asud2050.eu/ecocity/2011/05/autonomous-alpine-shelter/

http://www.holcimfoundation.org/Article/autonomous-alpine-shelter-monte-rosa-hut-zermatt-switzerland

Team Steck Co-Op Design

Some design development images of the Co-Op

Review I, day 01, Team Steck

Team Terray are interested in the idea of terroir, the coming together of community, production, the climate and the landscape. The team propose creating a multi-functional co-operative infrastructure that offers a node of exchange between different generations of inhabitants as well as visitors such as tourists. The team sees the youth of the valley as a catalyst for change.

Below you will find a recording of the presentation along with the original presentation slides. Don`t forget to share your comments and feedback to the team.

How we should process

Task connections : connecting tasks is important, and the connection of the different tasks makes the vision. 

Presenting an idea, some research : drawing instead of talking only : better to share, better to understand, better to remember.

Bloom's taxonomy

Bloom's taxonomy

Kick Off Final Discussion, Steck

Team Steck employ the opportunity offered by terroire, the relationship between people, agriculture and site, to create a concept that links food, culture and sport in their 100 year vision for Finhaut.

The elop*athlon

On the occasion of the elop*7 physical kickoff in Finhaut eight teams participated in the first ever elop*athlon. Over twenty-four hours teams were asked to complete a number of ever more challenging tasks culminating in an exciting final performance.

The elop*athlon is both an extremely challenging and exciting introduction to transdicplinary collaboration.

In the first phase participants were asked to create a physical icon of their chosen transdisciplinary hero and share their transdisciplinary story and talents with their team. Through the eyes of their transdiscplinary hero participants investigated and uncovered the unique qualities and challenges of Finhaut by placing their transdisiplinary hero icon on large map of the alpine region.

In this second phase participants needed to describe the experience of their hero in the region, what they saw, felt and smelled as well as the local inhabitants the hero encountered and the reason they found themselves in this area.

The third phase challenged participants to work together as a team. Participants needed to reconnect with their entire team by using a single continuous piece of string to trace a path across the alpine region joining all their team member`s heroes together and in so doing describe the obstacles and terrain that separated them.

Each teams was asked to work together to select a location for unique basecamp. In the selection of the location their camp needed to offer a new perspective on the future of the valley. Before they could establish their camp the teams needed to come together at their chosen location by making the journey through the region. Once joined together the teams created a unique physical model representing their camp.

As part of the final challenge of the elop*athlon using the special abilities of their transdisiplinary heroes teams were asked to solve a dramatic event that afflicted the Finhaut region. The teams each faced a unique catastrophic event that could include environmental disasters such as extreme climate change, natural disasters like earthquakes and floods, social upheavals brought about by population booms or aging inhabitants, as well as economic catastrophes like an energy crisis.

Each team developed a strategy that could address both the short term and long term consequences for Finhaut, and presented their teamwork in a final presentation to all participants.

You can view all the team`s great elop*athlon presentation by clicking on the Inputs and Reviews tag on the left sidebar on this blog.

Earthquake, Steck

The once peaceful alpine region has now become a dangerous earthquake zone that threatens to destroy the village of Finhaut. A senatorial grandmother reflects on how through the heroic efforts of Team Steck saved the village. The grandmother relates how improved infrastructure now protects the village while a research centre educates the local inhabitants while also developing new technologies and designs that reduce the dangers of future earthquakes.

Welcome to the elop*7 blog

Welcome everyone to the elop*7 blog. This is your platform for virtual collaboration during elop*7 Alpine Mutations - Focus Finhaut.

On this blog you will find a wealth of information.

• Find out more about elop*7 Alpine Mutations by exploring The Cabinet of Curiosities.
• Learn about elop*, discover our history and meet the team. 
• To help get started there are also tutorials on blogging and  links to many useful collaboration tools.  

Enjoy the project and don't be shy to share your idea!

Meet the participants

Find out more about the elop*7 participants. These great introductory videos were shown as part of the Virtual Kick Off on 18th September.