Student chat: Jacob Bråthen Pettersen
We had a chat with Jacob Bråthen Pettersen, 22 years old, a third-year design student at AHO.
What are you up to at AHO these days?
I'm working on a project which includes service design, product design and interaction design. The past years we have been working with the different genres separately, this semester we are tying them together in one single project. The idea is that we're exploring elements from the different genres and learning to understand how they relate to each other.
How do you start on this kind of a project?
We've been given an assignement with the title "Well being in the future" - we are trying to create something that has to do with that. I decided early that I want to work with physical activity, an important issue for me and others around me. My project is concerning physical activity for children in Groruddalen. Our teachers helps us proceeding with the process, how to find the right interview subjects and so on. In the kind of project I do, it's extremely important to talk to the potential users so that I can get continuous input and feedback.
I'm making a service for a 1st grade math teacher in an elementary school, so that the teacher easier can create an outdoors experience around the subject. The goal is that they can spend one hour a week outdoors . It's a problem that many teachers don't have the competance or the time necessary to organize an outdoors class on their own. That's where my project comes and designs an experience to be used in the occation.
What does your near future look like?
Like a lot of work! We are having reviews this week, where we introduce our concepts, get feedback and probably make some changes to the projects. I will start making products for the service I'm designing, start testing my service in a class, listen to feedback and make changes accordingly. I hope to have the time to test it once more before I start preparing for the presentation that will be explaining the project.
