Hello CHIC community

Here is what happened during this adventurous second week !

We continue to make our appointments at epfl and we started by saying hi to everyone, very important since it was the first point on the agenda Luca provided. That was cool !

We met our three mentors. We had a chat with them and understood better how they will fit in the team. They will be a reference for any […]

Hello CHIC community!

Yesterday evening we finally had the chance to proceed with our first meeting! After a great dinner together, where each one of us contributed in bringing various food and drinks, we officially started our first Chircle mee […]

Here we are.
Lost in the immensity of the possibility offered by the Urban Communities. A universe so vast that everything seems to go with it, and yet nothing has satisfied our minds.

“We need to narrow the scope!” you can almost hear screaming through the virtual corridors of our Slack chatroom.
– Smart urban lights?
– Alternative communication systems?
“No! […]

Hello CHIC community!

It’s been a week since the ideation week-end where we formed the team and chose the topic. We have not accomplished much tangible progress since then, but we all started thinking about ideas of objects that would suit the “Water Management” theme. No worries, soon enough we will provide you with more information about our project, as we meet tomorrow to decide on an […]

After our first weekend during the ideation workshop, all participants of the CHIC-2017-2018 edition have finally had a proper introduction. The workshop has given us the opportunity to get to know each other better, despite our different backgrounds, and get a glance at the many differences, but also many strengths in the personalities. By the end of the weekend we […]

Hi everyone! We had our first CHIC workshop last week-end… and now the adventure begins!

The NAPaC team is formed of (from left to right, top to bottom on the team picture): Chloe from Microengineering, Estelle from Business, Simone from Microengineering, Marjane from Industrial design, Luca […]

Hello, CHIC.
Nice to meet you!
We are FLUID: Siqi, Victor, Tamara, Thomas and Alex. We are interested in solving water management related issues, aiming towards ecological, adaptable and simple mediums. As for the stake, we are currently considering humanitarian and/or usability-oriented products.
The initial ideas are the following: for one, we have tho […]

31/07 and 01/08

Hello everybody,

We are almost at the end of our CHIC program and we are very sad about that. By the way it’s time to complete our connected devices assembly and show everybody the results of our hard work J. Depending on the different functions in the team (hardware-software-electronics engineers, designers and business guys), everyone worked on his/her final derivable all […]

As the population of this country is big and its food culture widely diversified, food safety is a huge subject in china. As for many other topics, Hong Kong and Shenzhen are mixed together and specific rules are made up for food safety. The border from Hong Kong to Shenzhen is sensible, as the mixing of the cities must be simple and evident. On the contrary it must […]