Yesterday, Dominik, Max and myself went to Potsdam to visit the final presentation of this semester of the HPI School of Design Thinking. After 1 1/2 hours in the hottest car ever and numerous traffic jams (of course... not forseeable on a friday afternoon in Berlin) we arrived at the impressing campus of the School of Design Thinking. What a privilege to work and learn in such an amazing setting - I must admit, I was a little bit jealous!

For those of you, who have not been introduced into our cooperation with the School of Design Thinking a short summery: Jana, Christiane, Dominik and Jeong Hong are four students from the class of 2008/09 of the School of Design Thinking that have been doing a semester project about Palomar5. For the past three months, they have gained an insight into the project and the team work behind. Simplified, their task was to find a problem and solve it in analogy with the Design Thinking Process. The four of them have done an amazing amount of research, immersion and idea-creation. In the end, they decided to work on the issue of privacy during the Palomar5 camp. Obviously, six weeks of collaborative work and living together with 30 young people from different cultures is going to be a challenge for us as well as for all our camp participants.

Of course, we were eager to see what they had to present as their final solution. They designed a kind of combined sleeping bag and dress, which our participants could wear to express their state of mind. On stage, the prototype was presented both in practice with help of a model that demonstrated the functioning and with a short movie in the background. We will see in how far their idea can be included into our camp setting - in any event it was a very felicitous presentation of their idea!

Thanks a lot again to Jana, Christiane, Dominik and Jeong Hong! It was great fun working with you!