15 25. – 27. September

Designathon 15

The Design-Marathon
at Toni-Areal Zurich

Microsoft Surface

Zurich University of the Arts

Designathon 15

The Design-Marathon
at Toni-Areal Zurich

Ready, set, go! At the first Design Marathon in Switzerland interdisciplinary teams are competing for the Designathon Award. You and your team have 48 hours to create a design!

Work-Life-Balance, 24/7-Society, Digital Nomads, Burn-Out: How do we shape our work life in the future? The topic «New Work» accompanies the participants through the event. The best projects win. At the end of the event an independent jury evaluates the projects on the basis of a 60 seconds presentation of each team.
The Designathon 15 takes place from 25th - 27th September 2015 at Toni-Areal in Zurich West.

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Topic

New Work

Work-Life-Balance, 24/7-Society, Digital Nomads, Burn-Out: How do we shape our work life in the future? The topic of the Designathon 15 is «New Work».

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Schedule

18.00

Door opening

Hörsaal 1&2
18.30

Welcoming

Hörsaal 1&2
18.50

Introduction «Knowledge Fair»

Hörsaal 1&2
19.05

Design Process

Hörsaal 1&2

Tuuli Utriainen, IdeaSquare, Cern
19.25

Topic Introduction

Hörsaal 1&2
19.35

Speedbrainstorming/Teambuilding

Hörsaal 1&2

Tuuli Utriainen and David Simon
20.20

Break and Teamregistration
20.40

Google: Company culture and Workplace design

Hörsaal 1&2

Sascha Hach, Lucas Stolwijk, Google
21.10

Digital Nomadism

Hörsaal 1&2

Ramon Zolliker
21.25

Innovation and the Dilemma of Acceleration

Hörsaal 1&2

Stefan Pabst, W.I.R.E.
21.50

Wrap up

Hörsaal 1&2

Tuuli Utriainen and David Simon
21.55

Apéro

in front of Hörsaal 1&2

allday

WORKING

Werkstatt
09.00

Coffee and Croissants

Viaduktraum
12.30

Lunch

Viaduktraum
18.00

Dinner by «Lily's»

Viaduktraum
KNOWLEDGE FAIR

Werkstatt
allday

Maker Corner

Werkstatt, gallery

organized by Roman Jurt
9.00

Creativity techniques

3.E14

Lorenz Troll
10.00 – 18.00

Elektronic Corner

Electronic Lab, Werkstatt 1st floor

Luke Franzke&Moritz Kemper
14.00 & adhoc

Rapid Prototyping/Future tools in digital fabrication

Werkstatt, gallery

Roman Jurt
13.00

Storytelling: Input (30 min), afterwards Consulting

3.E14

Martin Zimper
17.00

How to pitch: Input (20 min), afterwards Consulting

3.E14

Rahel Aschwanden, Impact Hub Zurich

allday

WORKING

Werkstatt
10.00

Brunch

Viaduktraum
12.30

Lunch

Viaduktraum
16.00

Start Presentations

Kaskadenhalle
18.00

Apéro riche

Stammtische, Entrance hall
19.30

Whats next?

Kaskadenhalle

Wemakeit
19.35

Award ceremony

Kaskadenhalle
20.00

Finish Designathon15
Thank you for joining!

Info

All talks and workshops are in English
The meals during the event are included
To occasionally take a rest, we recommend that you bring a sleeping bag and a mat with you
Take along all the working utensils you need (e.g. laptop, drawing material, camera...)
Journey to Toni-Areal

Jury

Gert Christen

Gert Christen heads the BlueLion Incubator for ICT and Clean Tech Startups in Zurich as well as the Entrepreneurship education at HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich. In 2013 he founded the Swiss Startupfair, which became the biggest national event for the startup industry. Previously he created the app stores for Nokia in North and South America working closely with developers and studios.

Christian Etter

Christian Etter is heading Etter Studio, a small interdisciplinary design company based in Zurich. Simultaneously, he works as Director for Unit9 in London. He is member of the Advisory Board of UNESCO’s Design21 Association (New York), European member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (New York), as well as chairman of the Digital Arts Association (Zurich).

Céline Fallet

Céline Fallet is a swiss crowdfunding pioneer and skilled designer. For her bachelor's degree at the ZHdK in 2012, she created a crowdfunding-guide for the platform wemakeit. Since 2012, she's been working for wemakeit as head of project consulting among other things. Besides, she's involved in various projects in the cultural and creative sector.

Anita Martinecz Fehér

Anita Martinecz Fehér, business economist FH, is deputy head of location promotion at the Office for Economy and Labour Zurich. She supervises the topics Entrepreneurship, ICT and Creative Industry. Location promotion offers people interested in setting up their own business information tools such as the website gruenden.ch. It further provides information and supports Startup initiatives.

Michael Volkart

Michael Volkart a skilled designer as well as founder and managing director of the digital agency Hinderling Volkart. Besides, he‘s a newly minted father, an energetic vespa driver, fearless early riser, chronic scatterbrain, curious networker, meatless gourmet and sometimes a dreamy rover.

Jury Moderation

Hansuli Matter

Prof. Hansuli Matter is Head of the Departement Design at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as Member of the Executive Board of ZHdK. He has a Master of Science in Architecture ETH and many years of experience in architecture and design. He has worked for various architectural offices, among them Herzog & de Meuron, furthermore the ETH Zürich.

Tickets

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Sponsoring

Our generous sponsors

Awards

Best in Designathon sponsored by Microsoft Surface: 3000.– plus each team member receives a Microsoft Surface 3 incl. keyboard and pen
Best in Social Impact sponsored by Freitag: Four Freitag bags (2x F261 MAURICE and 2x F262 JULIEN)
Best in Future sponsored by Axa Winterthur: 500.– CHF
Best in Crazy and Fresh sponsored by Micrososft Surface: 500.– CHF

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