Lyfta - GLOVR Hackathon

Wel­come to the GLOVR Hackathon! Dur­ing this 4-day in­ten­sive work­shop, we will learn about the UN Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals and how they im­pact on our ev­ery­day lives. We will learn how a VR pro­duc­tion is made and we will pro­duce a num­ber of pro­duc­tions to­gether, where we com­bine sto­ry­telling, de­sign and tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate real im­pact for a more sus­tain­able fu­ture. We look for­ward to work­ing to­gether!

Tutors from Lyfta:

• Paulina Tervo, Co-CEO, Cre­ative Pro­ducer
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauli­natervo/

Paulina Tervo, Co-founder of Lyfta

• Ser­dar Ferit, Co-CEO, Cre­ative Di­rec­tor
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ser­dar­ferit/

Ser­dar Ferit, Co-founder of Lyfta

Jo­hannes Met­sälampi, Cre­ative De­signer, UX de­signer

Ka­tri Mer­iläi­nen, Head of Ed­u­ca­tional De­vel­op­ment
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ka­tri-meril%C3%A4inen/

Ka­tri Mer­iläi­nen, Head of Ed­u­ca­tional De­vel­op­ment

Ma­te­ri­als for work­shop:

• We rec­om­mend that all par­tic­i­pants read these prior to the work­shop: http://www.yk.fi/sdg
• Please print the fol­low­ing ma­te­ri­als (in colour) prior to the work­shop: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BBz4jM4w2T5-OtvQ1uKbu8EqiGzrIqcI
• Padlet wall (for post­ing up­dates, ques­tions, news through­out the work­shop) https://padlet.com/lyfta/bo189twv2f1q -> http://bit.ly/2ztkPO0
• Pitch vot­ing form (link will also be shared on the padlet wall): https://goo.gl/forms/BQKbbpc4s9lAqRwb2

TIMETABLE FOR THE WORKSHOP

Mon­day, No­vem­ber 13

• In­tro­duc­tion to SDGs
• (ma­te­rial pack­age to be shared to stu­dents by Inka)
• We rec­om­mend read­ing the fol­low­ing: http://www.yk.fi/sdg

Tues­day, No­vem­ber 14

Ori­en­ta­tion, Ideas and Pitch De­sign

SES­SION 1 – Venue: Big hall

9.30 – 9.45  – In­tro­duc­tion to the GLOVR Hackathon and timetable of the week

• The over­all work­ing method is ex­plained and we go through what each ses­sion con­sists of so that the stu­dents can start ori­en­tat­ing them­selves for the week.
• A group of 10 stu­dents will be cre­at­ing a ‘Mak­ing Of’ project dur­ing the week, which will work as a ba­sis for a VR mak­ers’ tool­kit that we will pro­duce.
• Stu­dents will start think­ing about which SDGs they feel strongly about and what kind of role they would like to have dur­ing the GLOVR Hackathon.

9.45 – 10.15 – A 360 space and a short film from ‘The Awra Amba Ex­pe­ri­ence’ is watched.

• Stu­dents dis­cuss in small groups (of 5) what SDGs the film touches upon, how they are vis­i­ble through the film’s nar­ra­tive and what could one learn from this?
• A 360 space and a short film from ‘Din­ner­Time 360’ is watched.
• Stu­dents dis­cuss in small groups (of 5) what SDGs the film touches upon, how they are vis­i­ble through the film’s nar­ra­tive and what could one learn from this?

10.15 – 10.45 – Pre­sen­ta­tion of themes: Agenda 2030 Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals

Quick brain­storm in the small groups on:

• Group work – how does this theme man­i­fest it­self in your ev­ery­day life? If not why not? Who does it im­pact?
• To what pur­poses is VR best suited?
• What kind of added value can VR bring to Agenda 2030 ef­forts?
• Ideas are gath­ered and may be posted on the padlet through­out the week

10.45 – 11.00 – Form­ing the pro­duc­tion teams.

• All the 17 SDGs are up on the wall and stu­dents will write their name un­der them. The stu­dents are en­cour­aged to chal­lenge them­selves to think crit­i­cally and from mul­ti­ple per­spec­tives.
• Ev­ery­one se­lects an SDG to work on (there will be a max of 15 stu­dents per SDG; and min 5 stu­dents per SDG) so that we end up with 17 teams who will pitch the next day.
• A group of 10 stu­dents is also se­lected to take re­spon­si­bil­ity of col­lect­ing and com­pil­ing the ‘Mak­ing Of’ project.

11.00-11.30 Lunch break

SES­SION 2

11.30 – 12.45 Crash course on Brain­storm­ing

• The rules of brain­storm­ing > learn­ing to brain­storm in a pos­i­tive and en­cour­ag­ing

Stu­dents look at Agenda 2030 goals from the an­gle of their ev­ery­day life.

• My ev­ery­day life through Agenda 2030 lenses
• Half the group will cre­ate a mood­board, half will cre­ate a mindmap for the po­ten­tial story

Out­come: Ready story out­lines – one lin­ers

12.45 – 13.00 Break

13.00 ― 14.30 Crash course on Pitch­ing

• What makes a good pitch?
• Pitch­ing check­list
• Groups start to pre­pare their projects for pitch­ing (slides may be used but not nec­es­sary. If us­ing slides, they must be sent as PDF to Paulina (paulina@lyfta.com) by 8.30am Wednes­day morn­ing).

Wednes­day, No­vem­ber 15

Pitch­ing and Pro­duc­tion De­sign

SES­SION 3 – Venue: Big hall

9.30 – 11.30

The 17 groups pitch their ideas in front of ev­ery­one. Ev­ery group has 3 min­utes to pitch and 2 min­utes for feed­back / changeover. One teacher will be in charge of tak­ing time and no­ti­fy­ing the pitch­ers when they have 1 minute left and when time is out. 6 of the most in­spir­ing and fea­si­ble pro­duc­tions will be se­lected through a demo­cratic vot­ing process.

• Af­ter each pitch the group will get quick feed­back from an ex­pert panel (panel con­sist­ing of Lyfta, tech ex­pert from school and one teacher).
• Vot­ing will be done by all the stu­dents and teach­ers lis­ten­ing in. The vot­ing will hap­pen at the very end and will be done us­ing this link: https://goo.gl/forms/BQKbbpc4s9lAqRwb2
• The stu­dents whose pro­duc­tions were not se­lected among the 6 pro­duc­tions, choose which pro­duc­tion they want to be in­volved in. Max 22 stu­dents / pro­duc­tion team.
• *Here we would need help from the teach­ers to make sure it goes smoothly.

11.00―11.30 Lunch break

SES­SION 4 -Venue: TBA

12.00 – 13.00

Work­shop on VR pro­duc­tion stages and pro­fes­sional roles & re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. Af­ter this brief in­tro­duc­tion, stu­dents choose to ei­ther join the con­tent pro­duc­tion or the tech­ni­cal pro­duc­tion group dur­ing the pro­duc­tions.

13.15 – 14.30

Pro­duc­tion Work­shops ― The stu­dents work in two dif­fer­ent groups and start plan­ning and learn­ing how to cre­ate VR pro­duc­tions.

1. Con­tent pro­duc­tion group with Ser­dar
2. Tech­ni­cal pro­duc­tion group with Jo­hannes

14.30―

Back to pro­duc­tion teams ― in­de­pen­dent pro­duc­tion plan­ning in teams

Thurs­day, No­vem­ber 16

Film­ing and post-pro­duc­tion

PRO­DUC­TION DAY

9.30 – 14.30

• The whole of Thurs­day is re­served for film­ing and post-pro­duc­tion.
• The pro­duc­tion teams work in­de­pen­dently with men­tors from Lyfta.

Fri­day, No­vem­ber 17

Post-pro­duc­tion and screen­ing of the pro­duc­tions (MVPs)

POST-PRO­DUC­TION

Venue: TBA

9.30 – 11.00

• Stu­dents fi­nal­ize pro­duc­tions, with the help of men­tors.
• Those stu­dents who are not work­ing in tech­ni­cal groups will be given other tasks, for in­stance:
• Pre­par­ing the screen­ing venue, the pro­gramme, the posters and any­thing else
• Plan­ning the con­tin­u­a­tion of the GLOVR Hackathon
• The ‘Mak­ing Of’ group to pre­pare a short clip to show to ev­ery­one.

SCREEN­ING OF WORKS

Venue: Big hall

11.30 ― 14.00

• Pro­duc­tion pre­sen­ta­tions, feed­back ses­sion and end-sum­mary.
• Feed­back forms will be avail­able via Google Drive for ev­ery­one to fill in on Fri­day.
• Have a fun week of learn­ing!

Lyfta Team con­tact num­bers:

• Paulina Tervo 0440998015
• Ser­dar Ferit 0449728224
• Jo­hannes Met­sälampi 0401625505

Paulina Tervo, Co-founder of Lyfta and Jo­hannes Met­sälampi, Cre­ative De­signer, UX de­signer