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 Terrey

"... participatory design is not a hippie, romantic, let's-all-drink-together-about- the-future-of-the-city kind of thing" AA

My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process

Alejandro Aravena’s TED talk

Our idea in a video

Juan prepared a funny presentation. It was very spontanious and we are sorry for the bad quality!
Watch it!

Review I, day 01, Team Terray

Team Terrey are interested in the power of particpatory design to engage with the local population. The team identified key areas to enhance the quality of life in the area such as annual ferstivals in the valley, rennovation and reuse of existing buildings, providing multifunctional public space, and developing the tourist infrastructure.

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.

Interesting Literature !!!

... about the fact that Bruno Taut (1920) already imagined an alpine utopia...
the book is called Alpine Architektur and reading it is an experience!

Back in reality

Back from Finhaut and back in daily routine we founded a facebook group to stay in contact and continue our collaboration. All of us were very busy, but we met several times and exchanged our ideas by unsing google drive files, facebook and the dropbox.

Our video conferences were sometimes very productiv - sometimes less...

 After two weeks it was necessary to tidy up our dropbox!

- Sparkles -

Do you want to know, what our vision looks like?
Klick Vision Team TERRAY and Time bar

Kick Off Final Discussion, Terray

Team Terray propose a four step strategy in their vision for the future of 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.

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.