Saturday, September 15, 2007

First week or so




We're two weeks in and it's seems to be coming together. It's a mix bag of people, with an architect, computer scientist, interior designer, product designer, public health expert, biologist etc. After a week of getting to know one another, we've now dived into the project researching Costa Rica. There are three teams each looking at a different area: cultural dynamics, construction design and sustainability. On Monday, we'll report back and see how to take the research further. We have just three weeks for this already people are talking confidently about Costa Rican politics.

We're told that IWB can get pretty intense and there already signs of this as even today, a Saturday, lots of people are installed in front of computers doing research for Monday. But as IWB has such a nice space, a kind of underground designer bunker in industrial minimalist style, it's a pretty nice place to be. But the chairs are horrible. It's like sitting in a plastic bucket all day.

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