As you might have realised on skype or our facebook page, we had a first dinner session in our office last friday.

Maybe a short introduction on what we mean with "dinner session": in a roughly fortnightly rhythm, we will invite a set of people, who have - or might have in the future - an interest in our project to visit us in our office space and spend an informal evening with us and the others. For each of these sessions, we define a specific topic, which will be the focus of attention. Objective is to brainstorm about this specific topic, exchange ideas and maybe come up with some new solutions for subsistent problems.

Last week, we decided to give it a first try - we picked the issue of our camp-location and its interior achitecture to a invite a handful of young architects for some beer and finger food. Although everything was arranged in the short term, we managed to bring together six inspiring architects, who quickly started to brainstorm on the wide options a huge space such as the Winery in the Malzfabrik offers if you want to use it efficiently for an innovation format like the Palomar5 camp.

When we concluded the evening somewhere soon to midnight, we felt that we were on the right track: lots of issues had been raised and many ideas had been yielded so that we could gratified hit the next party and enjoy the success of the evening. However, when we talked about the evening and its consequences the next day, we realised that there was so much more to discuss in detail. Soon, we determined that another session was needed!

So here we are: on Monday, we will do another round with some of those folks who have been present last time - and also some newbies to fuel the discussion. Additionally, there will also be another modification with respect to the first round. Instead of blueprinting our ideas in the office, we decided it would be an evident added value to switch the venue and do it on-the-spot inside the camplocation itself.

Be sure to read again at this point about the experience and outcome of this second meeting! In case you feel you could add to this discussion - being an architect, designer or carpenter yourself - please drop us a line:

sw@palomar5.org or pp@palomar5.org

We will get back to you and see how we might include you at this stage or a later point!