Project description
The transatlantic workshop was realized by the HTW Berlin, university of applied sciences and the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. The basic idea of the 4 days workshop was to work in international teams even if the team members are located in different continents and time-zones: Technology connects people: Due to modern technology it seems that the world is moving closer together. People all over the world connecting in real-time via video chats, messenger apps and social networks. Nevertheless we constantly encounter communication barriers. There are language barriers, cultural hurdles, religious differences, technical insufficiencies and other reasons for misunderstandings. During the workshop we discovered possibilities to form new ways of communication and interaction over a long distance. We came up with various ideas and experiments to explore and build new prototypes. Students of both university were grouped into internationally mixed teams working and interchanging their ideas and evaluated the outcome and prototypes together.
The transatlantic workshop was realized by the HTW Berlin, university of applied sciences and the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. The basic idea of the 4 days workshop was to work in international teams even if the team members are located in different continents and time-zones: Technology connects people: Due to modern technology it seems that the world is moving closer together. People all over the world connecting in real-time via video chats, messenger apps and social networks. Nevertheless we constantly encounter communication barriers. There are language barriers, cultural hurdles, religious differences, technical insufficiencies and other reasons for misunderstandings. During the workshop we discovered possibilities to form new ways of communication and interaction over a long distance. We came up with various ideas and experiments to explore and build new prototypes. Students of both university were grouped into internationally mixed teams working and interchanging their ideas and evaluated the outcome and prototypes together.
Professors
Annelie Franke (Uniandes)
Alexander Müller-Rakow (HTW)
Miguel Navarro (Uniandes)
Jaime Patarroyo (Uniandes)
Moritz Schell (HTW)
Students
Franky Aguilar, Camila Padilla, Joao Wichert, Anna Brauwers, Alejandro Calderón, Hanna Meerheimer, Lachlan Smith, Laura Junco, Janos Pauer, Christina Mammes, Nasif Rincón, David Adeoye, Yucheng Wang, Markus Windt, Francisco Gutiérrez, Lorena Sánchez, Tabea Merly, Michael Gschwendtner