KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007

IT'S RINGING

... for the students now as they enter

the crucial phase of their projects

before heading into their final exam

finish in June. Now is the time to

perform, Now is the time to draw the

lines and convert loose ideas and

project plans into concrete results.

Bells are also ringing Now for the

KaosPilots' chairperson, Uffe Elbaek,

though for an entirely different

reason ;-) ... and Now is also the time

to ring for the first Alumni gathering.

Happy reading!

KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007

Sustainable tourism in Brazil

How can the existence of the Pau Brazil NationalPark improve the life of the community that livesaround it?The project aims to introduce sustainable tourismin relation with the opening of Pau Brazil NationalPark – to protect the local’s way of living, renewtheir pride in their unique, local culture andprevent environmental devastation.Team: Amalie Villesen, Fridda Flensted, HenriqueVedana, Nana G. Dall.Link: http://wiki.homebase.dk/PauBrasilClient: Pau Brasil National Park

Integration Incubator

There is an ever-growing need in the world forgreater cultural understanding and Denmark is noexception. There is one particular group of peoplewho experiences vast marginalization, unemploy-ment and social poverty and those are the ethnicminorities in Denmark. The team will in corpora-tion with Startup Company create a set of entre-preneurial tools that can be implemented in social-ly challenged areas in Denmark.Link: http://wiki.homebase.dk/IncubatorTeam: Tone Evjan, Thomas Gjerulff, Jakob Klintrup,Anders Fredsø Olsen, Torben Brandt.Partner: Startup Company (www.startupcompany.dk)

Giving voice to Bosnia youth

Bosnia – 10 years afterLooking for the positive stories in Bosnia, a nationstill traumatized by the war 10 years ago, the teamwants to give voice to Bosnia youth, their everyday lives and dreams for the future. The storieswill be told by photos and through interviews. Team: Hedvig Høysæter, Bo Steendahl, AndersMøller Toft, Nanna Wedendahl Frank, HanneHvattum.

The forest in the world – the world in the forest

Documentary at BorneoThe team is going to work with the Penans, thenative people on Borneo – to document themassive pressure there is on the Penan culture andway of living due to assimilation programs and thefelling of the rain forest. They will brand the issueas a hot topic for discussion among young peopleinvolving viral campaigns and a documentary.Team: Sara Wallen, Carl Johannes Borris, Biekevan Dijk, Christian Løken.Partner: Henrik Egede-Lassen, film producer.

The KaosPilots Netherlands taking off

With a strong belief that the Kaospilots school isan important contribution to the world, the teamhas decided to help the KaosPilot Netherlands tosucceed attracting a sufficient amount of appli-cants each year. The team wants to create a solidstudent platform on 2 different levels:1. Create an event to attract applicants this year,2007.2. Create a long term, sustainable concept in orderto enable the staff at KaosPilot Netherlands tocontinuously attract applicants the coming years.Team: Mille Obel Højer, Nicklas Høg, Anna Edwall,November Sky.Partner: The KaosPilots Netherlands. (www.kaospilots.nl)

At 2nd semester, the students face their first major

exam – working in small groups of three to five

students. The group decides whether to work on a

customer project or develop their own project. Part

of the project assignment is to

- design and carry through the project

- document the project (20 p.) and describe the

process (5 p.)

- make an oral presentation

Read the short presentation of the May-projects/

Team 13 here.

FINDING THE INNER KAOSPILOT

Team 13 and the May-projects

KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007

ON TOP OF AGENDA:

Team 12 in Vancouver

SUSTAINABILITYOn the second year of the KaosPilot educa-

tion the school moves the classroom to a

place outside Scandinavia to create an

educational outpost. During the outpost, the

entire team works on a joint project as well

as several minor projects for different clients.

The oral exam is based on the team’s presen-

tation of the projects and documentation.

Plan Institute

Weaving the ties that bindThe project is to design and facilitate 5workshops to collect data about belong-ing. The purpose is to investigate howto end isolation and loneliness in theWestern society.Team: Rowan Francis Simonsen, MajaR. Braig, Simon Anders Ulvund.Client: Plan Institute (www.planinstitute.ca/)

Improving a microfinance program

A new opportunityThrough research and interviews the teamis looking into possibilities for improvingVancity’s microfinance program. They willcover 4 foci: past and present clients,Vancity’s internal process, best practicesin North America and organizations in con-tact with the un-banked. The research willserve as a basis for collaborative strategyplanning together with Vancity staff.Team: Anders Ø. Hansen, Paola Ulland,Anders C. M. Winther, Peter FrobergClient: Vancity (www.vancity.com)

Twice Shy

Organic fashionTwice Shy is an organic fashion brandthat wants to expand to Europe. Theassignment is to develop a concept forbranding and marketing their booth at theBread& Butter fashion trade show inBarcelona July 2007. It is also to come upwith guerilla tactics. The concept needsto be environmentally friendly, flexibleand re-useable. Team: Stine O. Evjen, Tone Mong HaugClient: Twice Shy (www.twice-shy.com/)

Olympic Lunch Kit

Eat up your bag!In order to deal with the waste problemof the 2010 Winter Olympics, theproject is to investigate, explore andinvent reusable food ware for the 2010Winter Olympics.Team: Helene Thirstrup Hasen, AnneToftelund Jensen, Pouria Ruhi, EllenClient: Sustainability Group

Ecotrust Group

What can be done to make the carboninventories more interesting?Making carbon inventories is a boring,tedious, and time-consuming task. Butwhat if instead of going through piles ofreceipts making calculations abouttravels, electricity, heat and water bills,companies measuring their carbon foot-print got the information directly fromtheir providers? Like on invoices? Novexhas agreed to do it, the team wants toshow it is possible, they want more com-panies to do it, they want to createawareness in the general public, thewant people to demand this informationfrom their providers. The teams aims formaking carbon inventories so easy thatall small and medium enterprises inBritish Columbia can compile the necess-ary data in a blink of an eye.Team: Kamilla T. Kristensen, ZulmaPatarroyo, Henrik Smedegaard, AnnaLena Schiller.Client: Ecotrust Canada (www.ecotrustcan.org/)Partner: Novex Couriers (www.novex.ca)

BCGEU Group

What has work practices to do withsustainability?Looking at the work practices of BCGEUbusiness, the project is to come up withrecommendations and help implementinitiatives that can create value andpositive change in- and outside theorganization in a long term perspective.Team: Signe Gro Jensen, Torhild EidePedersen, Mads Poulsen, Tobias Høher.Client: BCGEU Group.(www.bcgeu.bc.ca/)

One Day – today

Every little helpsThe project is to create a focused direc-tion for a social marketing campaign, OneDay – a Vancouver city initiative respond-ing to the Community climate ChangeAction Plan. The aim of the campaign isto stimulate individual Vancouverites tobecome more sustainable in their every-day life through small steps.Team: Peter Liljeros, Malou Adler, Elisa-beth N. Offernes, Kathrine Overgaard,Kamilla Ingibergsdóttir.Client: One Day (www.onedayvancouver.ca)

The 2007 Outpost

1 City; 7 Projects; 30 StudentsThe project is to work with sustainabilitythrough project work and to explore andlearn about how to organize as a team.

Keep up to date with outpost atwww.kaospilot.dk/docs/showArticle.asp?id=464 orwww.kaospilotoutpost2007.com/

KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 4/2007

THE

FINAL

DELIVERY

������Team 11 crowning the achievements

The final exam is an individual project containing 3 phases:

• the preparation of the project itself

• written exam

• oral exam

The exam is evaluated giving a picture of the student’s ability

to work in the professional arenas of the KaosPilots as well as

the student’s ability to handle the problems and professional

challenges in the execution of the assignment.

Tanz Die Toleranz

If we can dance together, we can live togetherOn May 11 2007, 240 young people will be danc-ing in the middle of Vienna, open air, for the open-ing of Viennas largest cultural festival. Their per-formance will be the main happening, and theoverall theme around 'art with migrant back-ground'. Besides following and assisting the opengroup of dancers, from refugees and homeless toballet dancers, Ulrike’s task is to design and startup a variety of integrative dance projects after-wards.Student: Ulrike LeviClient: Caritas (www.caritas-wien.at/)

The Playpen

Dressing the fashion designers up for businessThe Playpen is a network and in-service trainingoffered to Danish design businesses, to strength-en their competences within the more business-related aspects of managing a company.Graduate student: Thomas FrederiksenClient: fashion designers, trade organizations andthe educational sector within the fashion trade.

Project Bambuser

What happens when everybody is capable ofstarting her/his own TV-Channel transmitting 24hours a day?A cellphone camera is the only thing that is need-ed to broadcast TV live. And may carry the poten-tial to become as big as YouTube. Måns Adler andJonas Vig have developed the concept – broad-casting the world-premiere with a 48 hours TV-show marathon at the internet and the local TV-station.Students: Måns Adler http://bambuser.blogspot.com/

Self eG. in BERLIN

– a room for and by social pioneersAttracting social pioneersSelf eG., Social Entrepreneurship & LeadershipFoundation in Berlin, is establishing an organiza-tion that aims to release entrepreneurial spirit andstimulate social innovation through three coreactivities; self incubator, self academy and selfconsulting. Katja Cappelens project with self eG. isto frame a strategy for attracting social pioneers,to strengthen the relationships within the networkand to initiate and implement a number of imme-diate first step community building activities.Graduate student: Katja CappelenClient: Self eG (www.self-germany.de)

Innovation Battle

A social innovation city task forceDuring three months, 4 task forces will be offeringcreative, action-oriented and innovative solutions tosocial challenges in the center of 4 different citiesin the Netherlands. The main assignment is to cre-ate a business plan to test and improve a prototype– with a more permanent arrangement in mind.Graduate student: Rolf Arne Leer & Jo TorgersenClient: Amsterdam, Rotterdam and two minor cities

Marketing strategy 2007/08 for

Muskelsvindfonden

A wake up call to counter discriminationHandicapped individuals deal with challenges intheir everyday lives, most of us don’t give athought. Developing a marketing strategy andcampaign for Muskelsvindfonden, Louise Bechwants to attract attention to the issue – to counterdiscrimination of people with a physical handicap.Graduate student: Louise BechClient: Muskelsvindfonden (www.muskelsvindfonden.dk)

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Maasai Entrepreneurship

From nomads to entrepreneursThe project aims at improving entrepreneur-ial skills and ecological literacy among Maasaiin the Rift Valley in Kenya. The Maasai are tra-ditionally semi-nomadic people living fromtheir animals, but due to the privatization ofland and increased population, they nowhave to look for new ways to make a living.Graduate student: Emil TinClient: Lorika Foundation(www.wildlifedirect.org/lorika/)

Code Blue

Reducing global warmingCode Blue is the name of a initiative involvinga coalition of Norwegian environmental organ-izations and businesses. By using a carboncredit scheme, the project aims to significant-ly offset emissions in Norway, starting with asingle “day zero“ in October 2007.Graduate student: Espen Sivertsen

Rumleskaft

Upstart businessRumleskaft is a business designing and sell-ing clothes for children between 0-6 years –via private home parties and a web shop.Thus, the project is to develop the overallconcept of the sales, among others to planthe home party visits and to produce a web-site and the sales material. Graduate student: Mathias LægdsmandClient: Rumleskaft

An Ode to Iceland

Identifying IcelandLeveraging on historical facts, culture,religion, nature, future visions, every day lifeetc., the book-project strives to identify thecharacteristics of Iceland. The book will be amix of photographs, illustrations and text. Graduate student: Diljá Ámundadottir

Changing the game within the frame

Process toolbox for StatoilIn the wake of an increased focus at theinternal processes at Statoil ASA, the projectis to document the existing processes andcontribute with new tools and methods forthe processes – elaborating a final productdescription of The Good Process.Graduate student: Kristin BjellandClient: Statoil ASA (www.statoilnorge.no)

Marketing Coaching Interweave

Keeping alive the organizational developmentPlan B is a consultancy company offeringservices within organization development.The company has developed a coaching andan evaluation tool complementing the con-sultant’s jobs in between the face-to-facesessions. Linda-Ida is project leader of themarketing project.Graduate student: Linda-Ida Herrdin Client: Plan B

Connecting Families

Linking ties between parents in prison andtheir childrenThe project aims to improve the relationshipbetween parents in prison and their children– by means of books, activities etc. Theproject is part of a larger film project describ-ing the institutions and individuals we leavesociety or somebody else to take care of.Graduate student: Maria Stevnbak AndersenClient: Jens Arentzen, project leader of thefilm project ‘Another Look’. (www.anotherlook.dk)

The Voice of Broken Families

Giving attention to depositing casesEvery day, 7 children are removed from theirbiological parents, now and then on a looseand illegal basis. By establishing a choir ofsome of these families the project aims to –through music expressions – put a focus onthe way depositing cases are handled and tocreate an experience network for the fami-lies.Graduate student: Morten Jørgensen

Event marketing

Developing a concept for event marketingDeveloping a strategy for launching an eventmarketing company specialized in strategicplanning and development through eventmarketing. Focusing on the concept behindthe company and the steps to realization onbehalf of a range of Danish companies.Graduate student: Rasmus Dorph

Emergent Leadership Program

The majority the minority and the minoritythe majorityRecruiting 20 young people with minoritybackground, the aim of Emergent Leader-ship Program is to bring cultural diversity intothe traditional Norwegian Leadership Model– and educate young leaders who want toinfluence their own life and their surround-ings with positive energy and wise actions..The program is based on a collaborationbetween public, private and non-privatesector organizations. Graduate Student: Elise SendstadClient: Nansenskolen (www.nansenskolen.no/)

Bringing green technology to the world

market.

Turning environmental friendly inventioninto innovationThe Norwegian technology companyPressLock has developed a lighter andcheaper compressor supporting the nextgeneration of heating and cooling systems1300 times more environmental friendlythan the current systems. This challenge isto take the technology to the world market.Graduate student: Karl Asmund OlssonClient: PressLock DA (www.presslock.no/)

THE

FINAL

DELIVERY�������

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RINGING WEDDING BELLS

On April 28 2007, Uffe Elbaek, chairman of the board, isgetting married with Jens Pedersen. The wedding cere-mony is taking place at Aarhus Raadhus followed by aprivate wedding party.

Many happy returns of the wedding day from thenewsletter and the staff!

RINGING IN THE FIRST ALUMNI GATHERING

Career network or coffee club? Vocational brush up orsocial gathering? It’s all up to you to decide when wemeet for the first Alumni gathering onFriday the 17th of August 2007 at 15.00 atRepublikkenVesterbrogade 24BCopenhagento discuss the future Alumni.

Sign up at Karin Barreth, karin.barreth@kaospilot.dk orcall us at +45 8612 9522.Ps: it’s by the way the same day as the opening of theIndex Award Exhibition 2007 – so come and have a lookat the ‘KaosPilot design’ before the gathering... ;-)

REVIEW RELAY RACE 2.0

“It is not always an advantage to be ahead of one’stime. One seeks and searches and maybe even gets athrashing from observers who do not themselves graspwhere we are all headed….”

Kresten Schulz Jørgensen, The Royal Theatre’s directorof communication