Credit | OVOLO (Urban Shift)
IAAC students will use computation and digital fabrication to develop products and functioning prototypes along with the Business students who will study the market placement and business plan of the startup, and Media students who will define the promotion and marketing strategies. As part of the programme, students will have the opportunity to travel to Vienna, Austria, for a 5 day kick-off workshop (funded), to set the ground for developing a start-up during the following months. To finish the programme, a closing ceremony will be held in Barcelona with all the partners and students. The work developed by the start-ups will then travel around Europe in the form of an itinerant exhibition promoting the products developed, the start-ups and their members. ## Learning Objectives At course completion the student will: - Understand how to take an idea, develop a product, build a prototype and turn it into a start-up - Learn about the use of computation and digital fabrication for the development and validation of innovative products - Learn how to work as designers in a transdisciplinary team and communicate in a way that is understandable for all start-up members - Be capable of designing implementable solutions at a proof of concept level that address the Urban Challenges and are in line with EU Green Deal ## Grading Method !!! ects "European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)" {{ ects }} ECTS over two terms ## Faculty {{ insert_faculty() }} ## Project Partners University of Economics and Business (WU), Vienna Stuttgart Media University (Hdm), Stuttgart The Institute for Economic Promotion (Wifi: Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut), Vienna Terra Institute (Terra), Brixen Multicriteria (Mca), Barcelona Pretty Ugly Duckling (PuD)/Blue Growth Consulting, Copenhagen Green Innovation Group (GIG), Copenhagen