Hello everyone!

This week, we furthered our research and decided to focus our work and interviews on three main ideas/needs:

– Facilitate acess to menstrual protections
– Promote public speaking
– Facilitate acess to ads (particularly for people having no computer)

We also wrote down a « team contract » that may help us (we hope not that often).
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Hi everyone!

Last week, we brainstormed a lot and chose eight ideas to explore further. Each of us had the responsibility to present one or two topics. 

This week, we presented our little research and proceeded to a quick vote in order to eliminate subjects too complex to w […]

Last Tuesday took place our second workshop for the CHIC adventure.  The workshop was on project management, a crucial point in any project.

We were put in different groups, and work on a mini-project. It was about designing a workplace for a Robotic competition, […]

Our team All Inclusive Design met for the second time this week with more research to discuss.

Information about social design, participative design and urban design was brought forward, and we analyzed a few existing projects to identify what works and doesn’t. Ideas are already being generated, but we now have to focus on a chosen, more specific subject in order to further ou research in an […]

Hello everyone! Resourceful at your service!

This week, the Resourceful team took part in a project management workshop at EPFL to plan ahead and see what could and will be the challenges we will face during CHIC.

The main challenge you guessed it….will be TIME !!! But for now, we have plenty of it, and we intend to make the most out of it. To search, to ask, to questio […]

Last Friday was the first meeting of « La table » Team. The aim of this session was to develop the team bounding and start to brainstorm about the “Less is more” topic.

Each member of the group shared about her / his conception of “Less is more” and how this way of life could be link to a problematic. Various ideas were approached like how media over load us with useless information, […]

Hello all,

Today, the BeeBoyzz met and discussed about our project, and what we want to do. 

As we mentioned last time, we are trying to fight against biodiversity losses. One of the problems that we encountered is linked with pollination, and with the decline of bees.  Therefore, we investigated the fiel […]

Hi everyone !

We gathered for our first meeting. We first talked over a cup of tea so we could get to know each other better. And then, we brainstormed for our theme which is social inclusion. We wrote all of what we had in minds about this subject and we  analyzed a bit what came out of it.  Next week, we will add some ideas that we did not think of during the previous meeting and we will keep […]

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Following the CHIC program, I was admitted to Draper University on a scholarship from the State of Senegal. I felt so comfortable when we were asked to come and pitched in front of the audience because of my experience at CHIC and the many feedback I received from the program. I invite you all to come and visit Silliocon Valley because there are many interesting things happening there. I sha […]

On the week-end of the 12-13 october, we took part in the kick-off CHIC week-end. we had some workshops, ethnography, debates, all of this such as we could discover each other as well as the programm. For example, we went on the streets to oberve people, the way they interact, to understand their needs. The aim is to process a project by identifying a problem and solving it instead of finding a so […]

Hi everyone!

We are the “Resourceful” team, and we’re thrilled to join the CHIC community.

We’re a multidisciplinary team of five extremely motivated students:

• Marine Fondin, ECAL student in Industrial Design
• Taavet Kangur, EPFL student in Robotics
• Diane Marquette, EPFL student in Robotics
• Maëlick Brochut, EPFL st […]

We are the Beeboys!

Moderns societies are facing challenges of biodiversity loss and climate changes.

It is a known fact that societies must adapt to a new system that is more respectful of the environment.

There are emerging economical forces, from both consumer and public institutions which are willing to invest into ecological innovation.

One of those problems is biodiversity loss. We belie […]

“La table est un type de meuble, initialement composé d’une surface plane et horizontale.”

Noémie Soriano : Industrial Design, ECAL

Karim Khatib : Robotics Master, EPFL

Charaf-ed-dine El Fattahi : Theoretical Physicist, EPFL

Paul Fritz : Media & Interaction Design, ECAL

Tobias Tingström : Master in Information System, HEC

Less is more. We will develop this […]

Dear all,

On Tuesday 8th October, CARING will be at Forum EPFL in the Student Corner, a dedicated place for entrepreunarial students. The aime of this event is to give students the opportunity to present their project, discuss, and connect with incubator.

For more information, you can go on https://www.forum-epfl.ch/app […]

Late is better than ever!!!!!.
During our internship in Hong Kong, we visited the Hong Kong design institute. A strong experience because we worked with different classmates on a specific project. I had the chance to work with Tabitha chan who is one of the institute’s students on the let’s go project which aims to improve traffic in Hong Kong. At the end of the day, we had the pleasure of present […]

Hello everyone!

With feelings of joy, tiredness and fulfillment our journey in China ended a few days ago.
The moments passed together are now memories, but so many of those have become learnings that will be useful sometime in the future.

We will see what the future spares for us.
For the moment we will enjoy some well deserved rest and dream of a day that Tengo will reach the beaches of […]

The China trip is over.

We could enjoy the experience of  “One country, two systems”. We saw how powerful it is to create a prototype between Shenzhen and Hong-Kong.

After spending these days working on the prototype, pitching the idea to different audiences, visiting famous companies and enjoying the Chinese food. We finally get a second design for Heptabox.

We are proud of what we accomplish […]

Hi everyone !

Today is our final day. The day to say farewell to most of people we met during this adventure.

CHIC is an incredible adventure and none of us will ever forget it. We learn how to pitch in front of people, how to build a device, how to buy hardware, how to manage a team and so many more.

Today, our team scatters across Asia. However, we know that we will stay together and continue […]

Hi everyone,

Our Monday in Hong Kong was completely occupied by a design fiction organized by CHIC in collaboration with the Hong Kong Design Institute. The objective of this design fiction was, based on recent Hong Kong news, to extrapolate what this city would be in 2025 and to imagine a potential product that might be necessary for this future. Each NOX member was in different teams composed […]

On Saturday July 20th, about 6 of us students from Switzerland were standing in front of a big metallic door, on which a taped sheet of paper read “Welcome to Makerbay”. We rang, and a couple minutes later, the door slammed open. A curly haired lady wearing a big smile welcomed us in.

She showed us around, and indeed there was plenty for us to see. Right behind the entrance was a moutain of saws, […]