Workshop by the Group for International Design Education (GIDE).
GIDE, the Group for International Design Education was formally established in 2003 and is a unique network of eight higher education art and design institutions which evolved from an earlier inter-cultural network established in the nineties. GIDE exists to enrich the intercultural experiences of students, educators and institutions by providing opportunities for collaboration, benchmarking and knowledge exchange.
During which  you could train your ​intercultural competence by working together with international students from the Politecnico Milano, the SUPSI in Lugano and many more ​european ​institutions. 
The result was a concept for using renewable energies ​to upgrade the quality of life with workstations made out of a combination of nature and technology.
The aim of the concept is to build multifunctional future spaces, to reconnect and sensibilize people to our nature, to bring people closer to it and to connect nature and technology.
The idea is to build different places around the city.
The combination with solar energy and futuristic shapes of trees creates an atmosphere to relax or work by day and have a cinema or party place at night. During the day you can charge your phone our laptop while sitting under the trees that gives shadow places.
At night, it could be converted to a cinema. The trees leaf also spend light that you don't have to sit in the dark.
All the needed energy is given by the solar panels on the leave surfaces that's how we reconnect and learn from our nature. To get better air quality the futuristic trees are covered with real moss. The screen is rolled inside the trunk, and you can pull it out, whether you need a presentation space for work or a movie night.
Lenz Bätzing
Lina Holz
Alice Accurso
Federica Alocchi
Alissa Bernasconi
Alyssa Baghin
Francesca Mannini

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