The notes here are taken quickly and will be consolidated with feedback from partners.

This creative jam draws lessons from the experience of Lugo Creative Jam in Lugo, and from various partners' remarks at conferences Main Lessons from AYCH in Brussels. The aim was to give young people present a creative experience, but also to disseminate AYCH tools in the hubs, in particular through the creation of hub mentor groups.

Two guiding documents were produced with the experience of the Brest hub and the support of Plymouth: the mentor's notebook and a welcome kit for young people Welcome kit Gijon

For this second creative jam, were present: 5 nationalities, 72 students, 30 mentors and accompanying, from 16 to 30 years.

The School of Design mobilized: 4 students, 2 supervisors, a communication officer for the production of thematic films.

A goal of disseminating tools

• Reuse tools already used in other contexts
• Disseminate tools in hubs through this event: presence of observers or mentors from other hubs to ensure replicability in the hubs.

A reinforcement of the transnational dynamics (see the report of the creative jam of Lugo)

• Work on a transnational dynamic (which has been progressive)
• The objective of giving birth to projects was this time secondary.

3 days with continuity and theme: reinventing the city

• Icebreaker, discovery: test of a game icebreaker (bright mirror) and discovery of the city in investigation mode
• Technical Workshops (list of workshops here): delivered by each of the partners
• Hackathon (1 day for “hacker” elements of the city) and reuse the elements of the workshops (techniques, etc.)

IDEA WALL has served as a common thread throughout these days of creativity. This tool had already worked well in Lugo and Tate Modern as starter of a creative emulsion and icebreaker. He has done his work again, but some improvements could be made.

See how to feed it not in the context of workshops, but put it in strategic places and explain the rules at startup. Make tools available to complete this chart throughout the 3 days.

• The small details of the organization (power strips, cables, screens etc.)
• Poor sound quality to make intermediate announcements
• Room unfavorable (big development work) and big resonance / noise
• Play well on the music: to have more attention during the announcements.
• Waiting for HDMI / VGA displays / connectivity: ensure both upstream
• For juries, upload presentations
• Internet connection sometimes poor quality

See the elements given by PY Jaouen here.

This report is not exhaustive, could not observe a workshop, the School of Design being mobilized on the preparation of the room for the bright mirror.

The workshop was provided by a local agency. The goal was to mix discovery of the city's use of research tools through design.

• Applying to a local agency was interesting to identify the key points of the city a priori.
• This workshop was not well received.
• No culture of partnership and design on the part of the local agency, no visibility on tools and their reproducibility, no adaptation of tools for a young audience.
• Improvement track: to review how to mix discovery of the place and ethnographic survey: protocol to be created.

  Workshop provided by the School of Design with the support of Grand Angoulême.

• The idea was developed in September by Olivier Balez, illustrator of the hub of Angoulême see here for the first version
• Tested with an audience of master 2 (CNAM, Master MEDAS)
• Tested in Liverpool with animators (AYCH TEST)

• Some changes to the rules of the game were made upstream through simulations made by students and teachers of the school of design (workshops). They have started to create 12 games in easy mode to produce and transport.

• Reassure on the possibilities of co-creation
• Give power to imagination (prospective 2045)
• Develop a culture of cooperation
• Development of a critical sight on technologies.

See also: http://colossus.lecolededesign.com/forsoni/aych/doku.php?id=fr:brightmirror

• Illustrations and storytelling: Grand Angoulême, Olivier Balez (illustration of the characters, creation of the universe, respect of a narrative scheme)
• Respect of the process of design thinking
• Opening (2045, insights, photos on Idea wall)
• Conceptualization: to pose a frame and a beginning of narrative
• Production of a final object: a newspaper: work on cooperation

The final object makes it possible to finalize the construction and to stimulate debate

  * The game is played in teams of 6 willingly mixed (but in two nationalities only) to ensure a transnational component.   * See slideshow and rules of the game here   * To facilitate the progress: instructions given on screens punctuate a limited time

  * Link to the review video: very enthusiastic feedback   * Easy to conduct a workshop for 70 or more young people (very didactic).   * Many interests of participants to reproduce the game in the hubs

  * Realization of all the stages in the allotted time: can it be done in one day?   * Some interesting thoughts on technology (newspaper photos)   * Cohesion of the teams   * Launches reflection on the issues of technology and the city, the red thread of 3 days. On the other hand little connection between the hackathon day and bright mirror which was more used like an icebreaker.   * Very important: the final sharing moment   * Choice of teams: random but 2 nationalities

  * Ease to produce the game   * All files can be downloaded here, zip format

  * Possibility of a constraint (or choice) optimistic / pessimistic (Black, Bright)   * Template of the log to release: the risk being little cooperation if one makes 3 separate sections. Maybe give an example?   * Maybe the pictures (above) are to dissociate from the game: to create an IDEA WALL well visible of all? Or to specify the rules and choices that must be more free associations to create a story (not too much constraints?)   * One could imagine with a break the noon a longer time with a moment of sharing then longer creation of the newspaper   * Name change ? the name is already used.