In this section you will find an impressive array of projects done by our students through out their education. There have been countless great projects completed over the years, but for the purpose of this website we have uploaded only the key exam projects - which are the:
Year 1 - May project (project design)
Year 2 - Creative Process design & Outpost exams
Year 3 - Final Projects & World Internships
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Year 1 - May project
Ask Sarajevo
Students from Team 9 complete in 2004 the ’Ask Sarajevo’ project. A bombed-out youth centre in Sarajevo was covered in 5,000 square metres of canvas and decorated by 600 children from the city. 10 Norwegian designers then used the canvas for clothes and works of art at an exhibition in Oslo to raise money for the restoration of the youth centre.
The following year, spring 2005, the five female students (Julie Fjeldstad, Cathrine Widersøe, Rebecca Svae Mathiesen, Toyah Hunting and Trine Valentin Munck) returned to Sarajevo to carry out their final exam project. This time, their ambition was to mount a big national rock festival to run for three days with the participation of the biggest names in the Balkan region music scene. They succeeded – and the festival took place at the same youth centre that they had helped to rebuild the previous year.
The Sarajevo project lives up to the program’s six core values, both in terms of form and content, and can be considered as a real win-win-win project.
Year 2 - Creative Process design
My beautiful laundry
Team 12 did a process at a big hospital laundry in Aarhus during the autumn 2006. The client was an organization with 130 employees from 25 countries. And the assignment was linked to the overall ambition of the laundry to turn diversity into a strength for owners, employees and customers. And doing this by recognizing the human dimension of the work instead of seeing the workforce as parts of a machine. Team 12 decided to do a process that could lead to more appreciation and better communication in the workplace. And they did it in the laundry, partly while production was still running! The event was covered by DR in a radio programme.
Year 3 - World Internships
The students at Team13 have now engaged with companies and organizations all over the world in their World Internship - to gain new insights and learning, a chance for valuable feedback and a great possibility to make a difference "out there"
The World Internship at the KaosPilots is an opportunity for our 3rd year students to engage and work with organizations and companies all over the world. It is an opportunity for our students to work on a daily basis within an organization - and in close relationship with professionals - in developing projects, gaining relevant professional experience and to specialize within his or hers chosen area. At the same time it is an opportunity for the host organization to get new input, new ideas, energy and new perspectives to the daily business as well as to the new developed projects or programmes.
If you are curious on where the students are - and what they are doing - have a look at our world map with pictures, organizational overview and small introductions.
Year 3 - Final Projects
The Final projects allow us to see how the students have administered and used the three years they’ve spent at the school. It’s hugely satisfying just seeing the end result of three years’ focused professional competence development. Seeing 35 graduating students doing their very best. Wonderful! And more than inspiring. The exam performances and the written assignments created offer the opportunity to learn about the very latest knowledge and developments in the KaosPilot field of specialization: creative project, process and business design.
What follows is just some of the individual final exam projects form the past. You’re only getting a title and ultra-short description, which may not give a true picture of the projects’ seriousness and scope, but will hopefully give an idea of the sheer multitude of themes and issues the students work.
Tibetan National Football Association
On June 30th 2001 the national football team of Tibet played their first international match - ever. Against Greenland. In Copenhagen.
When the 22 young players ran onto the pitch they wrote world history, sports history and political history. Because since Saturday June 30th 2001 young people in and beyond Tibetan have had a new cultural focus. A focus with a built-in story the whole world wants to hear. Because a football team is one of the most powerful symbols of national identity. all over the world. Including Tibet. And China too.
Which is why China did everything in its power to stop the match. Both the Danish government and the Danish football association were heavily pressurized. And when that did not work either. The whistle was blown, the match began, and within the first minutes of play Tibet scored the first goal. Although Greenland won the match.
The initiator behind Tibet’s national team is Michael Nybrandt - and the project was his graduation exam from the KaosPilots in June 2000. If you want to know more about the project check out www.tnfa.org.
More coming....