LUDINNO VIDEO WORKSHOP
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In September 2008, Kollision organized a one-week workshop on video sketching, as part of a three-week course on "user driven innovation." The workshop involved 60 students from Architecture and Design, Experience Design and the Occupational Therapy School in Aalborg. The 60 students were divided into 11 groups, each of which was matched with a private company, who had previously defined a problem to be explored using a user driven design approach.
Based on simple and rapid methods of production, the students were asked to stage their ideas and activities. During the process, it was not allowed to use other sketching methods such as paper and pencil to force participants away from the drawing table and into a deeper understanding of space and the roles which were necessary for the dissemination of their concept. During the weeklong, workshop students were introduced to more advanced techniques such as chroma-keying and camera-matching, which was an offer to the participants who were already familiar with video editing and 3D modelling.
The aim of the week was not a series of perfectly produced videos, but rather to create an awareness of the video medium as a sketching tool. Consequently the groups submitted videos of varying quality – both in terms of form and content - and on this basis they were asked to reflect on the method's ability to help them with their particular task.