After a long week of sitting in the classroom and doing Computer Aided Design on Fusion 360, we decided that we need a little break. What better way to do it than to go to Liseberg, one of the best amusement parks in Europe located here in Goteborg. Typically, I am not the type of person to go to amusement parks for fun, but a little convincing from Christian did the job. Although the weather was a little rainy, we had a lot of fun going on the roller coasters and other rides they had. It was, hands down, my best experience at an amusement park ever. My favorite ride at there is the Helix. It wasn’t too terrifying like some of the other roller coasters, just thoroughly enjoyable.  

Helix @ Liseberg

Fun fact about Liseberg, it first opened in 1923, almost a hundred years ago! We saw pictures of people wearing suits and long dress on roller coaster and thought it was hilarious. We didn’t know it at the time, but the amusement park is also really close to us, only one stop away from Chalmers University. (I bet the students here go there all the time, and I am jealous!) 

So the 2nd Week of iSEED is actually the 1st Week of Dare2Build. We started off Day 1 with a presentation in the form of storytelling by the stakeholder representatives. Not gonna lie, the story didn’t make much sense and I was left confused. Luckily, I was able to have a chat with Victoria, one of the representatives, and able to ask questions. What I learned was that we will be building an outdoor learning center which is the final part of their plan to turn a previously dangerous area into a safe place for anyone to be able to come and reconnect with nature. This learning center will consist of a center circle for storytelling and 4 learning paths leading to the circle which represents the frogs’, plants’, mushrooms’, and woodpeckers’ path to the central meeting point. Each element is the responsibility of a small group of around 6 students.

We spent the entire week coming up with a design for what this learning center will look like and how we will build it. We took into consideration what the children want from a playing space, what would be least intrusive and damaging to nature, and tried our best to incorporate elements of nature that would provide some form of knowledge for the children who come to our learning space.

By the end of the week, we were able to complete about 70 percent of the design and preparation of work that was need to be done. Although we are not 100 percent done, we think that it is best that we move forward and start the construction phase due to the limited amount of time we have. We do not want a repeat of last year where we were not able to complete the construction of the project and the instructors had to get their hands dirty and finish the project themselves.

~Kung

Preliminary Material List