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Day 0 / Día 0: “Ice Breaker”
The first day of HM2010 (Help Manuel 2010 – program between EAFIT University and Delft University of Technology –TUDelft- The Netherland) the 12 Colombian students and their respective Buddies From The Netherland showed great interest on working hard in order to do a project for the benefit of Medellín´s entrepreneurs. Read more…A winning smile :) first place in the Océ Research Competition 2009
I am proud to announce that I was part of the winning team of the Océ Research Competition. From 25 to 27 November 2009 Océ organized a technology business course, the Océ Research Competition.
I.T.O. in the Dutch Design Week (part of the case study 3)
Based on the final concept of my graduation project called ITO (Integral • Transport • O emissions) Motio Development is presenting its concept car: E-motio on the Dutch Design Week from October 17 through October 25 2009, Eindhoven the Netherlands.
Creative session (part 1)
This category contains the summary and analysis of several “creative sessions” that the author has lead during his professional activity and the course “Creative Facilitation” as a part of the Strategic Design Master at Delft University of Technology. These posts include the background, methodology and procedure, results and conclusions of each case study. After several trials I consider that I have some level of expertise and I am plenty of interest in this topic, in order to improve my profile as a strategic & industrial designer.
A creative session is a gathering of people who, following some steps and rules shaped by a facilitator (or organizer), let their creativity loose. Working together, in one or more teams, they eventually generate ideas for the subject in matter. The session doesn’t need to have very strict guidelines in order to work. As long as it is well organized most likely creativity and inspiration sooner or later emerge (Grudin, 2004)
Creative session (part 2): Future faculty workshop
After the fire in the Architectural building (TUDelft 2008) the association of students Stylos[1] arranged two activities in order to progress in the International competition to design the new building of the faculty. The starting point was the kickoff of the competition at Delft, including creative sessions to create the basic concept for the competition. After that the association arranged the international creative session in the 11 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, La Biennale di Venezia at Venice, Italy.
International creative session in the 11 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura.
Name: Concept for the new Faculty of Architecture TUDelft.
Date: 11/09/2008 till 13/09/2008.
Duration: 3 days.
Place: 11 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, La Biennale di Venezia at Venice, Italy.
Leader (facilitator): Ricardo Mejia S.
Client: Academic Stylos / Faculty of Architecture TUDelft.
Problem owner: Faculty of Architecture TUDelft.
Participants: not available.
Creative session (part 3): Campina
Creative Facilitation is about setting up and leading creative processes in product innovation teams[1]. The course Creative Facilitation contents describe the role of the facilitator as a leader of a creative team during a “Creative Session” in order to achieve a specific goal. For that process the course provides some theoretical reflections, including lectures, readers and discussions about techniques of design, lead and participate in creative processes.
Starting with theory, the course moved into guided exercises which gradually grow in complexity and scope (Delft University of Technology, 2007). Including other activities in the end of the course the student has a totally of two creative sessions, one as an internal session and the other as an external one. In my particular case I had a previous experience using some basic methods of creativity, like brainstorming and lateral thinking, including mind maps and some ice breakers but the course was an excellent exercise to grow in the comprehension of how this methods and other more can improve the quality of the new product development processes.
[1] (Delft University of Technology, 2007)
Javier Ricardo Mejia Sarmiento
Creative session (part 4): Twingo, the new generation of Renault
Name: New experiences for Twingo 2022.
Date: 22/05/2008.
Duration: 2 hours.
Place: TUDelft Studio 6 / IDE Faculty.
Leader (facilitator): Ricardo Mejia S
Body: Gregorio Muraca
Client: Academic exercise of Automotive Design / Renault
Problem owner: Ricardo Mejia & Marc-Peter Kooistra
Participants: Daniel Moreno, Jelmer Lakerveld, Ling Fong Low, Arjan Kodstra and Riekes Beelen
The goal of the session was created a new experience for the car interior; answering the question: How is possible live an uplifting experience in a Twingo 2022?. Based on the (minor assignment form Automotive Design course at TUDelft) deconstruction of the interior and exterior of the Renault Twingo 2007 the team based on Vision in Product Design (Hekkert and Dijk TUDelft 1997) defined three starting points to work in the design phase:
Design is about possible futures, ViP is interaction centered and ViP is context-driven. Read more…


