Minisprint May 2024: Fashion & Furniture Leavning No One Behind

Co-create with Fashion & Furniture Entrepreneurs from Egypt and students across disciplines in a facilitated 1-day innovation sprint! Sign up and read more about the programme below

At DTU Skylab Minisprint you will work side by side with 12 young entrepreneurs from Egypt and fellow students from different study lines from both DTU and The Royal Danish Academy. In a fun and playful way, you will apply DTU Skylab design tools & methods and together tackle the challenge of how we can design fashion and furniture in a socially responsible way.

This Minisprint is carried out in collaboration with the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative and DTU Skylabs flagship programme Technology Leaving No One Behind and is uniquely tailored with both classic innovation tools and inclusive design tools.

The event takes place:

  • Wednesday May 15th 9-16:30
  • DTU Skylab, Centrifugevej 374, 2800 Kongens Lyngby

Why join as a student?

  • Acquire Innovation skills
  • Network with other students
  • Connect with real-life entrepreneurs and engage in a cross-cultural context
  • Develop Inclusive solutions. Reach new insights by bringing together perspectives from industry and academia and from across cultures.
  • Get introduced to a topic for future work (e.g. as master thesis, a startup or other project)

Sign up

The event is open to DTU students and the Royal Danish Academy across all departments and study lines. There is no specific knowledge required, however you must bring motivation and curiosity to work innovatively with the case in an interdisciplinary team.

Save your spot here!

Sign up here

Students are admitted to the event based on a first-come, first-served basis, with consideration given to the description of your motivation to participate. This ensures alignment between the program and your background and motivation. There are 8 spots available for students.

By signing up you commit to:

  • Ensure your full commitment to the 7.5-hour Minisprint. Your absence would mean a missed opportunity for another student to get the spot.
  • Come with curiosity and openness.

Program

You’ll be divided into teams of 4-6 people existing of both students from across disciplines and entrepreneurs. Each team will work on a case related to fashion and furniture.

Tentative program:

  • Introduction
  • Define the problem
  • Lunch
  • Develop a solution
  • Low fidelity prototyping
  • Pitch and presentation

Food is served for free throughout the day.

About the partners

DEDI: Enhancing mutual understanding of culture and society between Egyptians and Danes through dialogue and partnerships, leading to increased cooperation.

Technology Leaving No One Behind is a flagship partnership initiative providing opportunities and support to make inclusion and accessibility a natural part of engineering.

Contact

Sara Dømler

Sara Dømler Project Manager - Student Innovation DTU Skylab Mobile: +45 93511955