2. What
is POLE?
Project Oriented Learning Environment – POLE
is an international and interdisciplinary study platform that
permits the development of innovation projects in cooperation with
industry partners.
3. POLE´s Ideology
Knowledge producers and knowledge users need the dialogue to
bring about better and sustainable solutions! There is something like
collective intelligence. Transdisciplinarity trans-gresses boundaries and
searches for more socially robust solutions. Learning is a social activity.
We are looking for solutions that are
- boundary crossing - integrative - holistic - sustainable
4. POLE´s History
POLE exists for over 10 years now. It has been founded in 2001 by
Prof. Dr. Christoph Holliger. On that time he was visiting professor at
Standford University and strongly involved into the beginnings of
„design thinking“. This approach is still one of the fundamentals of
POLE. In the meantime, challenging and complex projects have been
realized in cooperation with companies such as Nestlé, Volkswagen,
Mammut Sports Group and others. In 2012 POLE has become part of
the progam of studies in iCompetence.
5. 2012 - ON TRACK (A-Welle)
Move! (Actismile Inc.)
2011 - AIR ® (Elica)
7x24x52 Water & Ice
2010 - Highlight (Mammut Sports)
50m for Basel
2009 - DrivenDriver (Volkswagen)
The Kitchen
2008 - Sun&Shade (Schenker)
Human Centred Medicine
2007 - Xframe (Collano)
2006 - Planning for Davos
SmartLight (Stryker)
2005 - CanPlus (Nestle)
2001 - 2004 ...
Former
Projects
POLE´s former projects
6. Stanford University, USA Helsinki University of Technology, FI
Olin College Boston, USA NTNU Trondheim, NO
Tecnológico de Monterrey, MX UNITEC, Auckland, NZ
Aalborg University, DK Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN
Bauhaus Weimar, DE ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, CH
TU Delft, NL Tongji University, Shanghai, CN
ETSA Barcelona, ES University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, DE SCAD The University of Creative Careers
Partners
POLE partners
9. Project Organisation
- disciplinarily mixed teams of approx. 6 students
- individual coaches from each faculty
- use case given by industry partner
- project organisation by POLE lead
10. Sept. 11
Virtual Kick-off
Topic
Introduction
Team Building
Trust Building
First insights
Comapny visit
Company input
Coaches input
Presentation
Requirements &
Stakeholders
Presentation
Quality of concepts
Decisiton Analysis
Planning
Design Presentation
and Documentation
Interdisciplinary
cooperation
Sept. 21 - 26
Kick-off week
Oct. 23 (by VC)
1st Review
Nov. 27 (by VC)
2nd Review
Jan. 9.2013
Final Presentation
Have an insight into
POLE„OnTrack“, 2012
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23. Caroline Schnell:
„I liked working on the
POLE project - it was an
inspiring and challenging
experience to breed
innovation in an
international team.“
24. Sibylle Ramseier:
„It was a great oppor-
tunity to learn aspects
outside my core compe-
tence within a collabora-
tive and heterogeneous
team.“
25. Huan Than:
„I felt responsible for
aspects outside my core
competences and the
role I assumed to have
in the team in the
beginning...“
26. Sept. 3
Virtual Kick-off
Topic
Introduction
Team Building
Trust Building
First insights
Comapny visit
Company input
Coaches input
Presentation
Requirements &
Stakeholders
Presentation
Quality of concepts
Decisiton Analysis
Planning
Design Presentati-
on and Documen-
tation
Interdisciplinary
cooperation
Sept. 20 - 25
Kick-off week 1st Review 2nd Review
Jan. 2014
Final Presentation
Project Time Line – Upcoming 2013
27. How to participate?
Application is open now!
- Letter of Motivation and CV
- Application until 31.5.13
doris.agotai@fhnw.ch
- Notification of acceptance before 10.6.13
POLE will be able to host 12–18 students from the school of
engineering, FHNW.
28. Thank you for your attention
http://www.pole-project.ch/
