Bovis(t)a

From November till now...what happened?

Workshop 1: ‘Working Interactions’ For the 1st workshop we were asked to focus our research learnings and design activities around the behaviors and interactions that define hybrid situations of work/life balance in the specific environment of the Politecnico Bovisa Campus. In more specific detail we were required to design for an improved and richer experience in context.

The design challenges should be focused on either improving some efficiency tools (e.g. room booking, vending machines logistics, faculty-students communication,...) or on the creation of some specific digital product/service application to fill a gap encountered in the previous research phase.

Virginia: “For this first workshop with my group we actually decided to work on the creation of a digital product/service application to fill an existing gap we encountered and to answer to a need we already figured out previously and so we designed a new community based on trust for sharing. share.it is the project I definitely loved the most, probably just because of its real clarity and easiness. The concept came out since the very first day and was developed in two days of brainstorming and guerrila prototyping inside the campus. As all of the group members liked the project, the ideas about what we wanted to develop were pretty clear and everybody was strongly convinced that it would have easily worked. Therefore it became also simple for us to get to an agreement whenever we had to take some directions.

Initially we started working all together in order to test our project before taking any decision that could later reveal itself as superficial or unsuitable. To really give a clear idea about what was the concept we decided to make a more conceptual movie which sincerely speaking slowed down our work because till the last day we were not sure if it was actually able to transfer what we wanted to communicate. Finally when we had to put down all the contents