KAOSPILOTS TAKES ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION TO A HIGHER LEVEL: PROJECT DESCRIPTION

NAME
Sky Gardens in Dublin
An educational and sustainable hybrid project for a better environment and social innovation

WHEN
May 1st – 30th 2007

WHAT
We will together with Cultivate and Erik van Lennep make a hybrid project with focus on how urban roof spaces in Dublin city could be used in a more sustainable and contributing way, benefiting the environment in Dublin city, its citizens and the proud owners of the green roofs. The company Plant4Life are in a start up phase where the next step is to develop a “toolkit”, which will be used to attract companies to invest in a Sky Garden. Our mission is to research the area “green roofs” and based on the founding, create this toolkit.

HOW
During the month of May, we (5 KaosPilots) will work and live in the city of Dublin to feel the temperature of a developing city and to use our knowledge to endorse why an environmentally and sustainable way of thinking is necessary in this development process. Through different research methods, creative brainstorm sessions and marketing strategies à la KaosPilots, we will find the innovative aspects of green gardens on rooftops. We will then use this knowledge to put together the toolkit, which Plant4Life will use in the continuation of this project.

WHY
As a student at the KaosPilots, you finish the first year of education with an exam project called “The May Project”. We wanted to focus on our own values and select a project accordingly. The group is sharing the following values:

We want to increase the understanding for environmental sustainability.
We want to inspire people to take innovative actions towards environmental and social challenges in western cities.
We want to apply the knowledge we posses and the tools and methods we’ve learned in another culture.

We see that the project criteria are reachable within this short time frame. We have decided to peruse the project from different angles to challenge ourselves on a higher level, cause when we fly – we fly high!

When we fly - We fly high!

The first year at the KaosPilots is finished with what is called "The May Project". We, as students, chooses freely any project imaginable to work with during the month of May and gets examined upon how well we have dealt with the project due to the previous semesters syllabus. The 4th of May, 2007, KaosPilots flew to Dublin, Ireland to work with a project that would create a new meaning to urban spaces. We wanted to bring these spaces to a higher level and here is our results! Welcome to The KP Sky Garden Blog!

Daniel Seifter, Sweden

If I had to choose one of many things I adore about the KaosPilots, then it has to be that you as a student TAKE your own education. It's not being given to you! I have woked as a HRM for two years, started a youth organisation in Stockholm, worked as Key Account Manager, Cocktail Bartender and after studying law for 2 years at the University of Stockholm, I decided to do something different and more appealing. I had a look at the KP website and let's just say I found what I was searching for!

Pontus Bergqvist, Sweden