"New Urban Experience" - Design Partner 2.0 Urban Hunter Program
With the end of the speech, on the evening of August 7th, the Design Partner 2.0 Urban Hunter Program, jointly launched by the Art and Technology Innovation Base of Tsinghua University and the Sino Italian Design Innovation Base of Tsinghua University, led by Professor Fu Zhiyong from the Information and Art Design Department of Tsinghua University School of Fine Arts, successfully came to an end.
Faced with the new context of the "post pandemic era", the Design Partner 2.0 program has been launched. The purpose of the Design Partner program is to connect outstanding young designers with outstanding senior designers from both inside and outside the industry, and to build a design innovation resource platform using university bases as carriers, forming a collaborative model of "online+offline". Provide high-quality design services for governments, research institutions, public welfare organizations, startups, and teams.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, online work has become a new normal of life, and distributed online communication has also become a new collaborative choice. But it is precisely because of the existence of the internet that online cross-border, cross time zone, and cross regional diverse co creation has become possible.
In the 2.0 Urban Hunter Program, 41 undergraduate and graduate students from over 25 top universities both domestically and internationally, as well as 9 mentors from various fields of expertise, will be included in the design. Divide into four major directions and six project groups to jointly explore the possibility of urban cultural reconstruction in the context of Chengdu.
Exploring Chengdu's Urban Culture Across Time Differences and Countries
A 30 day design sprint, exploring from Chengdu to design output, with 6 groups focusing on four directions: public space, community building, overseas influence, and cultural activation, focusing on "What does Chengdu need?" "What can we bring to Chengdu?" "What does Chengdu look like in the future?"? Discuss the idea of.
Over a period of 30 days and 1424 hours of team communication time, 65GB of audio, text, and video materials were produced.
Centered around urban language, through the design propositions of urban art space, community new retail, urban art education, cultural innovation activation, and future youth communities, multiple fragments of Chengdu's urban imagination have been inspired.
Exploring Chengdu's Urban Culture Across Time Differences and Countries
A 30 day design sprint, exploring from Chengdu to design output, with 6 groups focusing on four directions: public space, community building, overseas influence, and cultural activation, focusing on "What does Chengdu need?" "What can we bring to Chengdu?" "What does Chengdu look like in the future?"? Discuss the idea of.
Over a period of 30 days and 1424 hours of team communication time, 65GB of audio, text, and video materials were produced.
Centered around urban language, through the design propositions of urban art space, community new retail, urban art education, cultural innovation activation, and future youth communities, multiple fragments of Chengdu's urban imagination have been inspired.
Design Partner 2.0 Urban Hunter Program - Project Output Collection
This time, based on the real-life context of Chengdu Imagination, not only brings more vitality and vision to Chengdu, but also provides an opportunity for online friends from all over the world who have never been to Chengdu to have a deeper understanding of Chengdu. Through research, a new perspective different from that of travelers has been brought, and everyone has gained a deeper understanding of Chengdu culture. Online and offline, both inside and outside Chengdu, through this urban hunter program, people and information have been exchanged and exchanged among groups.
After the report, many friends made plans for future travel and insisted on coming to Chengdu, the city they had previously learned about online, to experience the passion and beauty of Chengdu in person.
Online Collaborative Innovation of Young Designers in Distributed Networks
Due to the impact of the epidemic, people's travel and mobility have to face great restrictions. Projects carried out around Chengdu cannot be inspected on site, making online collaboration the only option and posing a great challenge to the planning team in the early stages.
"This task is too tight!"
The City Hunter program took only a week from planning to implementation, quickly assembling teams, recruiting personnel, finalizing project directions, and finally pushing for implementation. During multiple discussions and connections, facing young designers from all over the world, it is a great challenge to help everyone establish their understanding of unfamiliar cities.
Based on this, this bold attempt was ultimately proposed - a collaborative solution that combines online and offline methods. Through a "field research+online communication" model, the element of "live streaming" was boldly added in the research process, breaking away from the traditional single dimension of desktop research, allowing field researchers to become the "eyes" of online designers and see the real Chengdu in real time.
Through multiple online collaboration platforms, a "shared workbench+shared space" approach has been launched for online collaboration, bridging the information chain and ensuring information flow. This allows for continuous information sharing between groups, establishing a common project image, and alleviating the negative impact of delayed information exchange online.
The entire project adopts a design thinking model for top-level design. For each project group, 6 excellent project mentors were matched, and 3 flight mentors were invited to share from multiple perspectives such as "futuristics, urban space artistic transformation, and entrepreneurial practice". Adopting a mentor system of "precise promotion by project mentors+diverse sharing by flight mentors". We have created a brand new project experience in terms of project depth and content breadth.
Inspiration of design tools and innovative exploration of collaborative models
At the opening ceremony, Teacher Fu Zhiyong shared with his classmates various possibilities about the theory and application of futurism, and gave a vivid lesson to everyone. At the closing ceremony, the brilliant comments from multiple mentors from different perspectives provided more room for imagination for the future possibilities of the students' plans. This online collaboration integrates elements such as design thinking, service design, futuristic methods, and lean design. Through the sharing of future studies interspersed in the project, although everyone still has a superficial understanding of the content of future studies, it has already planted a seed of future studies in the hearts of students. During the project, many groups have tried to use tools related to future studies to help design thinking and plan foreseeable possibilities for the future.
At the same time, the online workshop jointly developed by the planning team led by Teacher Yu Yan was interspersed among them, bringing more interesting stimulation and thinking through a relaxed and fun gamified approach, mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm for output in the final period.
With the end of the report on August 7th, a month's output brings not only an end, but a new beginning. This time, the design partner 2.0 Urban Hunter Program is based on the Chengdu urban project. Let us see more possibilities brought by young designers of distributed networks. As the first step of the Design Partner 2.0 program, we will continue to explore how future designers can demonstrate and showcase their scenario based information aggregation capabilities, and stimulate the thinking of distributed innovation activities for more scenario OTAs in the future.
Through this approach, the power of young designers is gathered, breaking the limitations of geography and time zones, bringing new cooperation opportunities for urban innovation, social innovation, and other major topics, exploring the possibility of scene customization and brand building. In the future, we also believe that more and more young designers will join the family of Design Partners 2.0, leveraging their learning and strengths to contribute to the development and innovation of society. The waves are surging forward, helping cities transform, bringing urban stories, and promoting urban innovation through design. We are online and in the cloud, penetrating the haze of the epidemic, and together exploring new possibilities in the post epidemic era.