Designing turns trainees into designers
The students of the vocational school in Winterthur were allowed to get creative in a project on participatory design - supported by the agency Gestalten.
Those who train at the Cantonal Vocational School Winterthur actually do so in order to work as care specialists, health and social care assistants, or retail trade specialists or assistants. Now, however, students and teachers have ventured into unfamiliar territory for the first time and, on the school's initiative, have become designers. Thus, all the participants have designed their own personal icons for the more than 30 toilets in the school buildings. For the experiment, the school brought on board the creative minds of the Zurich agency Gestalten.
"Many Souls - One Spirit"
Each learner was given a personal platform for self-expression - a concept for a community art project under the motto "Many Souls - One Spirit. In the end, 2,500 individual works of art were to form an overall picture.
The agency developed a manual that the students could use to design their works. This helped to digitally implement the initially sketched motifs later via the school's own team infrastructure with the help of a tutorial and design program and to save them as a file. A personal icon was requested from everyone, which could then be placed - printed on the wall panels - in the restrooms. For this purpose, all classes had a day to experience the motto of the project week with a special program and flash mob.
