KaosWorks in Shanghai 2008!

After 5 weeks of constructing a concept for an Inspiration Tour and some additional weeks for planning a Pilot Tour, it is now the day before. The CEO, Christer Lidzélius, of the KaosPilots arrived today. Christer will participate on the tour with two Norwegians from Destination Norway. Furthermore are our team manager and Karin from the KaosPilots also going to participate.

The tour will start at 8.00am and will end at approx. 4.15pm. It will be a day with a lot of experiencing, reflecting and knowledge creation.

If you are interested in the program you can contact David Storkholm at the KaosPilots. After the Pilot Tour he will be handling all inquiries.

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It happened over night. We don’t exactly know how it happened but if you go to google and search for Inspiration and Shanghai, www.kaosworks.dk shows up as number 5 result! Amazing!!

By the Way… We finished the concept friday and at the time this is being written, it’s on a plane on the way to David at KaosWorks, The KaosPilots.

Now we’re lookin forward to close in on the Pilot Tour.

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We’re now in the final sprint to finish of “The Concept“. We are trying out an interactive way of delivering the material we gathered. It is really turning out nice, though it has been a hard struggle and a lot of work.

The Concept should be done today (at 1600hrs). As this is the end of the period we agreed to work with KaosWorks. It might take a couple of hours more… Especially because Daniel is a perfectionist!

We will of cause work further with the Pilot Tour that will take place in around the city (of Shanghai). It wil be a mindblowing experience, with the potential of giving a lot of selfinsights.

Sorry for the lack of updates, but we have had some problems getting into the site… Probably because of the censorship. - And we thought that we had worked our way around it… We still have but it takes alot of time to download the simple site!!

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..is obviously an essential part of big-city life! Here in Shanghai the Subway (that continuesly is beeing expanded to meet the demands of a city that is rapidly growing) can take you around the city - but also Taxi’s is an essential part of the infrastructure - Outside many subway stations you will see some opportunist waiting on their motorcykle’s - for a cheap price they can take you where you want to go..

 

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A new week kicked of today -we had a very good day with a great mix of work and play and we did a lot of work! We spend the day in a lovely old villa in the Jing’an district (Thank you Helen and family), trying to combine all of our ideas with some of the many places we have found so far. This week it is time to highlight and kiss the darlings (and sadly, also kill some of them), as we have many possible spots, interesting persons to meet and many ideas for our tour. It was really exiting to see a rough outline of an inspiration tour hanging on the wall at the end of the day..

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How do we research?

Well, we have used 7 people during 4 days to cover as much ground as possible, while still remembering the places we’ve already visited within the first 4 weeks of our stay in Shanghai.

Have we just scattered around the city?

No! There is a plan with all that we do. We have mapped out where we needed to go, and following principles from SCRUM (the project facilitation system) and the diversity in the team we believe that we have collected what is present in Shanghai.

What is the next step?

We’ve collected a huge amount of data. This data is now being transformed into information on a template made for the purpose. We’ve still got some places to visit during the weekend. Some places are quite doll, monday morning.

Are there any examples?

Of cause. Please look below for some samples. It’s not determined that any of the places below will be a part of the tour. If they prove heavy enough when we weigh them on monday, then they will be part of the tour.

Book release at OFOTO

The Pearl Tower

Street behind highrises

Historic artefact

Camellia Japonica L.

Restaurants are essential for providing food

Police provide secutiry

Parks provides sancturies

Tearing down provides new space for highrises

Elder people provide knowledge of a past era.

We are still searching for definitions on what Social Innovations means for people. If you want to give your opinion on that, please post a comment in the post about Social Innovation.

We hope to post some more pictures in the weekend, so stay tuned!

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Yet an other workweek is over for the Inspiration Tour group and a lot of things have happened the past four days.
We have finally worked out a structure for the concept, theory is in the box, budgets have been hammered out, visuals have been developed, and meeting have been held with Confucius Says.

We, together with David have also settled the theme for this specific tour: SOCIAL INNOVATION and the tour has been named “The Unexpected”!
In order to move on with the task of figuring out what to do with our participants while they explore innovation over a three-day tour with us, we made a really good brainstorm. Nicklas facilitated the newly invented model for the brainstorm, we wrote down adjectives for the KaosPilot and Shanghai. The notes were divided into two bags, and then we had to go “on stage”, take a note from each bag and come up with a concept/task for the tour. It went very well and we now have over 30 ideas of what we can do on the tour.

Yesterday, Christian was sent on a mission on behalf of the group to the Danish Consulate and mingled with both Danish designers and journalists. He came back with a bunch of business cards in his back pocket and a promise of an article in a major Danish Newspaper about us. We are very excited!

For next week we have prepared for all the research that will be done. The week has been named the “Doing” week, as we’re off to look at locations, create processes, etc.
It’s going to be a hectic and interesting week – very much looking forward to that!

Have a great weekend!
Karen

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Thursday, February 28th we had a task to present a “one sentence definition” of our individual perception on what Social Innovation is. These were the results:

Nicklas Høg:

“An innovative initiative that meets a need of a group of people”.

Thomas Gjerulff:

“New initiatives in society from all sectors that creates social change and development”.

Daniel Seifter:

“A new commited act, initiated by any sector or man that solves an unmet social need, defined by the ones it impacts”.

Hedvig Høysæter:

“Making money in a good way”.

Torben Brandt:

“People in need becomes entrepreneurs, with a potential of becoming makers of social innovation”.

Karen Steinfeld:

“Social innovation is taking a problem/task and make a new spinn to solve it. The incentive for social innovation in east: money, in west: social benefits”.

Christian Stoltze:

“A new and genuine win-win-win situation where both sides as well as the surrounding world are winners”.

What is your definition? Write us a comment and we’ll take on the dialouge!

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We have finally arrived in Shanghai as a team for our Outpost 2008!
After two weeks of settling in, sleeping on concrete beds, trying to improve our little yet helpful Mandarin skills and figuring how to hail a cab – we have finally started the project we’re here for. Namely to create a concept for an exploration tour for KaosWork! Most excitingly we will create a pilot tour for the concept while in Shanghai.

Last week was our first workweek. The group, Hedvig, Karen, Torben, Daniel, Christian, Thomas and Nicklas gathered to touch base the first day, brushing up on our preject and laying out the turf of where we were stood with upcoming tasks, meetings, etc.

The entire team met with a company called Confucius Says (http://www.confuciussays.cc) on Wednesday 20th April. The two owners Ben and Phil run the company, which basically creates the bridge between Western businesses and the Chinese community. Their specialty is networking through new media. Very exciting stuff! They will also be our sparring partners for the exploration tour. We have two scheduled meetings with them already.

On Thursday we went on a guided tour with Michael Mao. He’s an English Business Major at a university here in Shanghai and works as a guide too.
We showed us around Old Town and French Concession. It was not the tour as such that was most exciting, but the fact that we could ask Michael any question and he would gladly explain it to us from a Chinese perspective. Our realization after the day was that the mindsets between West and East are huge but we still get along and can find a common level to talk about anything in society. It was great to make friends with such an open guy as Michael is!

Since we only have four-day working weeks we have decided to use the Scrum facilitation model (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
This will enable us to take on tasks as we go along and work individually with them. We’re starting to get into the production phase of the project, collecting data, places, develop processes etc for the concept – so we need to utilize all our capacities. Very excited about trying out new ways of facilitation!

Okay, that was all for last weeks work load. Check out the pictures below!
Karen

Our workstation

The Group in Front of Shanghai Museum

Michael Mao - Our guide.

Navigating through the Old Town

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Who we are?

As part of the KaosPilot education, we as students have gotten the opportunity to spread our wings and use our skills in another context than we are used to, enabling us to learn about cultural diversities by interacting with it. On February 4^th, 2008, we landed in Shanghai to develop an “Exploration Tour” in Shanghai.

What are we doing?

Our task as students is to create a concept for an exploration tour in Shanghai and discover the different stages the concept requires in order to make it long lasting and sustainable experience. The purpose of this tour is to inspire the participants in new and innovative way around the subject social innovation.

The approach we use while designing this tour includes head, hand and heart. We believe that to create sustainable inspiration we need to challenge the participants intellectually, touch their heart and give them physical experiences, which will last a lifetime.

Come along

The Shanghai Exploration tour will take place April 18^th – 20^th 2008 in Shanghai China. The tour can be seen as an urban treasure hunt filled with reflection, process and informal magic. Lets create something together. Lets create new lenses for our eyes!

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