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Project: Creative Technologies in the Classroom/Barcelona Presenter: Arduino Verkstad AB Malmö, Sweden Interviewee: David Cuartielles www.bcn.verkstad.cc Photos: Arduino Verkstad AB The N.I.C.E. Award 2015 is looking for new and stimulating innovations that are solutions to global problems. What problem do you address with your project? We are looking at how education can benefit from including new technologies and 21 st century processes as part of the standard curricula. One of the main issues is how to help teachers to not only learn about new technologies, but to establish processes to have them updated year after year. Technology changes at a fast pace, but teachers have a limited amount of time to devote to their own education. Our project looks at new ways to interlace teacher training with student training. What reactions have you received yet? Is the world ready for your solutions? What are the creative and business characteristics of your project? Can both, business and creativity, be distinguished clearly? The creative characteristics of our project are the way we address the education of kids as a three-step process: maker labs, project building and public display. The students are invited to explore the more creative uses of technology in order to pursue projects they suggest by themselves. Concerning the business aspects of this project, we are looking at how we can offer our platform in the form of a subscription model, for schools to keep a constant series of updates on a yearly basis. We create models that teachers can apply at the beginning of each academic year. So far, the reactions from both teachers and students have been very positive. According to the data we have gathered from the people participating in our project, 95% of the students would recommend our project to other students; there have been no teachers disliking it, yet. 54
N.I.C.E. AWARD 2015 / WINNERS Project: HOME BACK HOME Presenter: PKMN [pacman] Architectures Madrid, Spain Interviewee: Enrique Espinosa www.pkmn.es Photo: Javier de Paz García The N.I.C.E. Award 2015 is looking for new and stimulating innovations that are solutions to global problems. What problem do you address with your project? HOME BACK HOME cares about one of the biggest effects of the last decade’s crisis, related to unemployment, which is still a current affair and really harmful, especially in PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain): the disemancipation of people aged 18-35, forced to turn back to live with their parents. In Spain, between 2007 and 2014 more than 500,000 people suffered from this social stigma and more than 350,000 homes experienced a controversial change in terms of identity, privacy, economy and spatial conditions, together with a social problem related to the feeling of failure. We took this problem as an opportunity for optimism, innovation and positive change. What reactions have you received yet? Is the world ready for your solutions? We have received positive reactions from cultural institutions and people affected by the problem. This feedback was focused on the creative way we proposed for treating this social conflict from the field of architecture and design. The main challenge is to revert the sense of failure that disemancipated people feel, aggravated by our competitive society, so that people understand they are not responsible but rather victims of a complex global affair that – if looked at from a positive point of view – may have the potential to build a community able to share experiences, tools and knowledge so that it becomes part in public agendas. What are the creative and business characteristics of your project? Can both, business and creativity, be distinguished clearly? The creativity relies on connecting art, activism, social change, personal identities and design in a way that allows the development of a research and action project able to reveal contemporary concepts, such as domestic economies, shared property, new affective structures, hosting protocols and personal identities. The business (and social) impact of the project is based on the power of communities: 500,000 people and 350,000 homes are a relevant social mass, connected by similar feelings and needs that may share knowledge and resources through a platform which is also open to public institutions or private investors. 55
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