From Kosice to Bratislava, Slovakia is engulfed in intergenerational design thinking! Dream Machine Inventors from primary schools are visiting the universities, giving feedback to the university students designing a concept for their Dream Machines. That feedback is brutally honest. In other words: the university students can learn a lot from these amazing, yet demanding customers!...
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When your ‘brutally honest customer’ inspects your work
Last week, the primary school students of the 1st year of the Josefa de Óbidos Group of Schools, visited the University Superior School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha, to approve the technical drawings of the Dream Machines. This is one of those critical moments in MyMachine. The designers/engineers (the university students) get...
Portugal Is Covered In New Ideas
Mining the unlimited creativity of young Portugal. These brilliant minds are not limited by their knowledge. Therefore, they are totally free of any constraints on their thinking and creativity. And they did come up with groundbreaking ideas! The ones we, adults, would probably boycott the moment they pop up. And that is precisely why MyMachine...
University Students in the USA getting final feedback from the Children
February 23rd was a big day for the 2nd grade of the Linton-Stockton School Corporation in Greene County, Indiana (USA)! It marked the big reveal for their Dream Machine prototypes! These elementary students have invented their Dream Machine. Indiana University Design students have translated that idea into a Concept. The university students gathered final feedback...
Work-In-Progress events in Slovakia (part 2)
“This is an ideal school, I will enrol here to study”! “When I grow up, I’ll be an inventor”! Such words coming from fifth graders visiting the university, are a dream come true for us! When we create the right environment for students, they find opportunity and commitment. We are pleased by these sincere praises...
‘Client’ meeting in Slovakia: Primary Students visit the university to give final feedback on the designs
MyMachine Slovakia has successfully completed the second phase of the MyMachine methodology this year. University students designed a concept for the children’s inventions. This is the right time to ask for final feedback from the ‘clients’: university students are curious about what the children will say, and honestly – a little nervous, yet, they do...