Future. City. Life!

Assignment A: A point of view

Your Vision for the City of the Future!

Work in teams on six different assignments

Create your vision for the

future of „Leinwig“

Visualize it in a 90 sec

presentation

Present it to the city planning

council of Leinwig

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During the orientation week six assignments will lead you to your own vision statement for the city of the future

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A – A point of view

B – Megatrends

C – Vision

Photograph five urban settings relevant to your character. Then let your character comment (not: describe) the situation in the frame.

D – Conceptual Map

E – Storyboard

Summarize the main points of each speaker/trend. How will these trends affect your character?

In 5 statements describe your program for a desirable future for Leinwig in 2050. Please give your vision a title, and add a short explanation to each statement.

Draw a one-page diagram of the elements and actors in your city, visualizing their relationship with each other.

Find the most persuasive communication strategy for your vision. Please give your presentation a logline first, then draw a storyboard showing everything you want to present.

F – Visualization Produce a 90 sec video clip convincing the Leinwig City Planning Council of your vision.

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What to do?

Assignment A – A point of view

Photograph five urban settings relevant to your character. Then let your character comment (not: describe) the situation in the frame. Submit everything by 14.00 directly to class2016.

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Leinwig Family

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Omi (95)

Trude (63) Ella (42) + Gunther (41)

Nicole (29) + Leon (5) Great-Nephew (51)

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Trude (63)

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• Divorced, looking for a partner • Advisory member in the Leinwig

Pensioner Committee • ½ professorship at the University

Hamburg, free lecturer • Commutes regularly to Hamburg and

throughout Germany • Very interested in culture (theatre,

opera, museum etc.)

Ella (42)

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• Nanny • Currently lives with her husband Gunther in a

5-bedroom apartment in a building near the city centre

• Children (18 und 20) have (just) moved out • Vegetables from her own organic farming

(small garden), she has a green thumb • Does charity work several times a month at

the food bank and in the Multigenerational House

Gunther (41)

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• Sells pickled Hering (Rollmops) • Currently lives with his wife Ella in a 5-

bedroom apartment in a building near the city centre

• Children (18 und 20) have (just) moved out • Enjoys going to his local bar for a beer in the

evening • Is often angry, that anything happening in the

daily city life can only be experienced with money

• Is a drummer at the ‘Scrapdrummers’

Great-Nephew (51)

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• Married, no children • Lives with his wife and her son from a

previous marriage • Works in Controlling of the Bernheim AG

(textile producer) • Plays table tennis at the TSV Leinwig • Active member of the Free Voters

Leinwig – campaigns for protecting the environment

• Enthusiastic cyclist

Omi (95)

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• Lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment

• Widowed • Diabetes mellitus type 2 und kidney

failure, so she receives dialysis 3x a week

• Not very mobile anymore, she can walk to the corner shop with her wheeled walker

• In good mental shape

Nicole (29)

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• Long-term student • Single mother of son Leon • Just moved out of a building into a housing

project • Drives her son through the city at least 3 times a week (doesn’t own a car) • Works in a call centre

Leon (5)

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• Goes to the Montessori-Kindergarten • Plays football and does Judo • Can ride a bicycle and when his mother

accompanies him, he rides it to the Kindergarten

• Has friends all over the city (there is only one

Montessori-Kindergarten in Leinwig)

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What to do?

Assignment A – A point of view

Photograph five urban settings relevant to your character. Then let your character comment (not: describe) the situation in the frame Submit everything by 14.00 directly to class2016.

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Take your photos from the point of view of one of these characters:

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Omi (95)

Trude (63) Ella (42) + Gunther (41)

Nicole (29) + Leon (5) Great-Nephew (51)

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Think beyond the obvious

Upload your photos on class2016

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http://class2016.leuphana.com/users/sign_in

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Your Group Work Time: 11:30-14:00 Submit your photos to class2016 by 14:00 Please be in plenum HS2/Vamos at 15:00 Enjoy discovering Lüneburg!

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