Dear CHIC community,

Kick-off weekend is done! After 2 days of meetings new people and brainstorming, we now have a team : Zhu Zhu.

Zhū Zhú （zhū which means “pig”, as it will be the chinese year of the pig in 2019 and zhú which means “to construct”)

The name of the team might change …

We have the theme of “wasted space”, with “lonely as human space, “knowledge through discussio […]

Hi everybody!

We are the T-Ψ team…

The 28th of October, six students from different fields met up and came up with the idea to help people yo deal with their daily stress.
How did we come up with this ? By identifying :

• Human space : people who are stressed
• Physical space : public transport, working places
• Data space : Data is everywhere

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Hi!

For some reason, we’ve identified ourselves as Vukovi – a pack of good intentioned wolves.

Antoni, Tomas, Vuk. Engineers.

Antoine, Ethan. Designers.

Alicia. Economist.

This is the structure of our pack.

Currently, we’re exploring the opportunity space of regulating individuals and/or corporations’ energy consumption habits. How much energy do they actually use?

I […]

Dear CHIC followers,

if you recall the last couple of posts from this summer, we left our story hanging between pitches, prototyping and culture-exploring activities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. We are now back in Switzerland and the new semester has officially started for all of us for a few weeks already. Toygether continues to be an important portion of our time and we are focusing on developi […]

First of all what is an innovation park ?

According to the EPFL an Innovation Park is devoted to housing start-ups, SMEs, research teams and innovation cells from major companies that operate in fields as diverse as information technology, computing, health and nutrition, engineering, transport, telecommunications or materials. The whole process occur in an inspiring environment, with access to […]

The border between mainland China and Hong Kong is unique in the world. They were once one country and after a century of separation they are one again, but only theoretically. Because in the end the border remains and keep two economies and cultures separate. Hong Kong: it was once the jewel of China, “special” economic act […]

The idiom “middle class” has only specific definitions, no outwright meaning is linked with the term even though it is used by most. Actually cities or countries can have their own measure for it that can be based not only on income but also on socio-cultural traits or different go […]

China or more specifically the Chinese government puts a lot of effort into making sure that access to press and Internet in the mainland is limited. This is different in Hong Kong.

The contrast is an illustration of the “one country, two systems” policy that has been in place since the former British colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.

Censorship in the media is quite difficult to deal […]

Our trip in China takes place in two differents cities: first Shenzhen and then Hong Kong. And as one is located at the border of main China and the other one is a somewhat independent state, there are a few contrasts that manifest themselves in many areas. The key aspect one which we concentrated ourselves is architecture and urban planning, because it says a lot ab […]