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Mobility at the first and last mile of the IPT in a European Megacity

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Mejia Sarmiento, J.R.

After a human-centered design process, crucial conditions were identified in the changing process of development and growing of the European Megacities. These situations created the scenario for the author to determine the design opportunities to contribute to the sustainable development. Three steps were completed following a methodology from the TUDelft called Vision in Product Design. A literature research with the intention to define the mission statement of the system and the vehicle and a set of design-oriented user research toolkits were used. The final result is ITO which is a family of fully low floor, modular and lightweight cyber cars, minibusses and buses with electric propulsion for a flexible range of passengers. Using existing infrastructure, this set of cars can fill the gap between private vehicles and public city buses offering an uplifting journey in a comfortable vehicle that is part of an efficient and flexible i.p.t. The interior design answers the entire passenger’s needs and expectations creating a unique experience thanks to different and sophisticated communication systems.

2nd design and social innovation evening 2011 / 2da Velada diseño & innovación social 2011.

The event was an exciting exercise of co-creation and social innovation, it took place the last may -from the 6th to the 9th in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia- at Palmira, a small town near to Cali, capital city of Valle del Cauca.

The event was organized in two different sections.

The first one was a set of conferences with local and foreign guests.

Mr. Carlos Zorro http://cider.uniandes.edu.co/ -PhD in social development- joined together diverse concepts building a framework about development; the proffesor Juan Suarez Pontificia Universidad Bolivariana Medellin was talked about the link between social innovation and design; and Zulma Patarroyo and Pete Sims were explained the general concept of Kaos Pilot a danish school that educated an enterprising leader who navigates change for the benefit of themselves and society as a whole.

Then a workshop begun between design students and professionals who tried to figurate how to improve the well-being conditions of an Afro-american community based at the Rio Nima near to Palmira. It was possible trough different sets of sessions, following Human Centered design toolkits (by IDEO).

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Entregas Finales Estudio 6 Producto Industrial y Estudio 7 Movilidad UniAndes

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entregae7_007webCordialmente los invito a la entrega final de los estudios de diseño a mi cargo en la Universidad de los Andes (Estudio 6 Producto Industrial y Estudio 7 Movilidad).

Fecha: Los dos estudios se presentan el Viernes 27 de Mayo 2011

Hora: 2:00 p.m. a 5:00 p.m.

Lugar: Salón: Z208 (E6) & Salón: Z209 (E7) de la Universidad de los Andes, Cra 1 No. 18A – 10 Bogotá DC.

Guia d’innovació en eldesenvolupament de nousproductes

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Veefkind, M., Alberti, M., Masip, M., Mejia Sarmiento, J. R., & Ayneto, X.

En una economia globalitzada, on l’entorn empresarial canvia constantment, innovar ràpidament i de forma sistemàtica s’ha convertit en una necessitat a l’hora de ser competitius. En aquest context, el temps d’arribada al mercat, és a dir, des de la concepció de la idea fins que el producte s’està comercialitzant, esdevé un factor crític. Amb el present document es pretén ajudar a l’empresa a reforçar la seva capacitat en el desenvolupament de nous productes (DNP), procés que s’inicia en la concepció de la idea i acaba en el disseny d’un producte preparat per a la seva producció i posterior comercialització. La guia s’ha estructurat en 7 apartats, que engloben totes les fases del procés de desenvolupament de producte. Dins de cada fase, s’aprofundeix en les darreres tendències i metodologies relacionades, així per exemple, es tracten temes com l’ecodisseny, l’etnografia o l’eina de gestió empresarial PLM. La guia està plantejada en un format molt personalitzable, de manera que cada empresa pugui accedir als apartats que més l’interessin i confeccionar així el full de ruta que millor s’adapti a les seves necessitats.

Informe consolidado de la 2da Velada de diseño e Innovación Social Rio Nima 2011.

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Equipo organizador del evento.

Javier Ricardo Mejía S. Director del proyecto, docente Departamento de Diseño, Universidad de los Andes

Juan Carlos Mendoza Collazos. Apoyo coordinación general, docente Departamento de Diseño Industrial, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Equipo de estudiantes apoyo logístico:

Sara Ibarra Vargas. Coordinadora logística, estudiante Departamento de Diseño Industrial, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Lina Marcela Olaya, Lady Stefany Paz, Gustavo Adolfo Ortega, Francisco Escobar Araque, Edwin Rafael Pedroza, Wilder García, Daniel Matabajoy, Santiago Mendoza, Katerine Mosquera, Julian Collazos, Alejandro Mera, Jhonny Palacios, Apoyo logístico, estudiantes Departamento de Diseño Industrial, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.