Team #5 on its way to the Milestone 1
CORE
January 6, 2018
Dear CHIC Community, The team #5 from Fribourg wasn't very active until now, but this is over ! "Team #5"... What an impersonal name ! This is because we have [...]
Refining our new idea
ToyGether
January 3, 2018
End of the semester, Christmas, New Year’s celebrations, upcoming exams, holidays…So many reasons for slowing down on our weekly meetings, but we didn’t ! As Chloe mentioned in the last [...]
Pivoting
ToyGether
December 30, 2017
With Milestone 1 behind us, we needed some time to sit back and reflect on what we had done. The NAPaC One project was developed for a milestone, but none [...]
The days before Christmas!
FLUID
December 17, 2017
Hello, The Christmas Holiday is approaching. We are also busy with many deadlines of courses at school. On Monday, we attended the Demo day for last year's projects. In spite [...]
First Prototype
Flowlin
December 17, 2017
The days before Christmas are always stressful. This year in addition to present purchases and school deadlines we also want to progress within the CHIC project. Amandine, our product designer, [...]
Hello Again !
ToyGether
December 15, 2017
Dear CHIC Community, We've been a little bit shy for the past weeks, but we're back again with a new blog article ! Let's face it : MS1 was not [...]
Happily Ever After
Flowlin
December 13, 2017
Last Tuesday we decided to turn our weekly meeting into a less formal meeting. Instead of our regular meeting routine, we had a game night to celebrate Milestone 1. Taking [...]
Team Fribourg 2017/18 on board as well!
December 10, 2017
Today marked the start for the 5th team of this year's CHIC edition: Team Fribourg. Composed of 4 students from the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg, HEIA-FR, as [...]
THE GATHERING
FLUID
December 9, 2017
HELLO CHIC, It's been a while! We are still processing the milestone, trying to come up with a new idea, and what better way to do this than [...]
Here we are! Milestone 1 is over
ToyGether
December 5, 2017
Days became weeks and weeks became... time for Milestone 1 ! As we mentioned in previous posts, nobody realised how fast time could fly. It seems yesterday we all met, [...]
How to get things done?
Flowlin
December 3, 2017
With the milestone coming up, many things came through for team CHIRCLE this week. The “Problem exploration” Milestone happened on the 1st of December and the three teams participating (Chircle, [...]
First milestone done!
FLUID
December 3, 2017
Hello CHIC community! On Friday, we had the opportunity to present our work for the first milestone in front of the CHIC staffs and some professors. That represented the accomplishment [...]
Houston we have a problem…exploration
Flowlin, FLUID, Milestone, ToyGether
December 2, 2017
Great first milestone in Lausanne on December 1. The teams' job was to present their problem exploration both in the form of a report and of a live presentation, followed [...]
On your marks… 3…2… 0 !
ToyGether
November 27, 2017
“Time flies” is not just an expression, but a reality. It looks like the CHIC adventure just started… Still in less than a week, NAPaC will already present an idea [...]
First convergence steps
Flowlin
November 25, 2017
On Tuesday, we all met at the EPFL Rolex Center to discuss the survey and let all team members present fresh ideas for the project. Our brainstorm session yielded a [...]
Third Week !
ToyGether
November 19, 2017
Hello CHIC community Three weeks already that we’ve started this adventure and NAPaC seems to be on good track ! After our first pitching class where Luca totally blew our [...]
Pitching workshop & first meeting with our mentors
Flowlin
November 19, 2017
Dear CHIC Community, This week we had a kind of animated week with two special events: On Monday, we had the chance to take part in a pitching workshop led [...]
What’s up? #1
FLUID
November 18, 2017
Hi CHIC community! So a lot has been going on since our last post. We had our first meeting during which we discussed about how desperate on ideas we were [...]
A Blank Sheet of Paper
Guido
November 18, 2017
We are team Ikare! Joanne & Romain from the Haute Ecole d'Arts et Design, Pierre, Mehmed & Gabriel from the Haute Ecole du Paysage, d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture and Vignesh from the [...]
Second week !
ToyGether
November 15, 2017
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 [...]
Brace for the brainstorm
ToyGether
November 8, 2017
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 [...]
First meeting!
Flowlin
November 8, 2017
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 [...]
Team building Workshop
FLUID
November 5, 2017
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 [...]
Teamwork 101
Workshop
November 4, 2017
While only one week has gone by since the ideation week-end, the participants of the CHIC 2017-2018 edition are already back for a workshop on teamwork led by Prof. Jack [...]
Ready, Steady, Go!
Flowlin
November 2, 2017
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 [...]
The birth of NAPaC
ToyGether
October 31, 2017
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 [...]
START OF PROJECT
FLUID
October 29, 2017
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 [...]
3 teams, 3 universes
Workshop
October 29, 2017
3 teams have emerged from an ideation week-end packed with a lot of exercises and teamwork. Sunday started with a graphic jam warm-up (see below). It was followed by the [...]