The document describes a 10-day workshop called "Light Through Culture" held in Ankara that brought together a multicultural and multidisciplinary team of students. The workshop involved lectures and exercises to design an interactive lighting installation to communicate cultural values. It explored topics like group dynamics, the design process, installation as a design research tool, experience design, understanding metaphors, and developing concepts. The goal was to create personal experiences that avoid stereotyping by taking multiple perspectives and using interactivity and engagement to create a vision of cultural values.

1. LIGHT
THROUGH
CULTURE
new and interactive way to communicate and explore cultural values

2. 10 days
Light through Culture workshop
Ankara

3. Multi-cultural team:
Turkish, Belgium, Iranian and Dutch students

4. Multi-disciplinary team:
Industrial Design, Communication,
Graphical Design, Intelligence, Social Design

5. communication entering group
styles a group dynamics

6. Exploration

7. Ideation

8. Confrontation

9. Lecture 1: process with group clashes
LINE OF THOUGHTS
INTERACTIVE
LIGHTING
INSTALLATION

10. Lecture 2: fluent design process
communicate cultural values
LINE OF THOUGHTS
INTERACTIVE
LIGHTING
INSTALLATION
LINE OF THOUGHTS

11. Lecture 3: installation as design research tool
LINE OF THOUGHTS
INTERACTIVE
LIGHTING
INSTALLATION
LINE OF THOUGHTS

13. EXPERIENCE
DESIGN
in a multicultural and disciplinary team

14. RECHT
DOOR
ZEE

15. DESIGN
METHODS

16. UNDERSTANDING
METAPHOR

17. UNDERSTANDING
METAPHOR

18. ACTING
OUT

19. First person Perspective
& Real life Experience
independent on the characteristics of an explanation
ACTING
OUT

20. ABSTRACTION
OF
METAPHOR

21. CONCEPT
DEVELOPMENT

22. TO
CONCLUDE

23. RECHT
DOOR
ZEE

25. MEMNUM
OLDUM Karin Niemantsverdriet

29. Focus on one culture, not on the comparison
Interactivity is a must in presenting cultural research

34. Focus on one culture, not on the comparison
Interactivity is a must in presenting cultural research

39. Focus on one culture, not on the comparison
Interactivity is a must in presenting cultural research

45. Focus on one culture, not on the comparison
Interactivity is a must in presenting cultural research

46. Focus on one culture, not on the comparison
Interactivity is a must in presenting cultural research

47. MEMNUM
OLDUM Karin Niemantsverdriet

49. A Multi-Perspective Approach
for Designing Interactive Experiences
to Reveal Cultural Heritage.

50. El Ele - Hand in Hand
interactive installation
to perform design research
in the cultural field

54. to create a vision on cultural values
it is required to catch multiple perspectives

58. we need dialogue, interactivity and engagement of participants

59. to create personal experiences we need to avoid stereotyping

60. mathematical functions

61. group dynamics are translated in
unique patterns

63. use interactive design

64. use interactive design
to catch

65. use interactive design
to catch
to create a vision on cultural values

66. use interactive design
to catch
to create a vision on cultural values
multiple perspectives

67. Lia Bardoel & Laura Duncker
Karin Niemantsverdriet
lightthroughculture@gmail.com
LIGHT
THROUGH
CULTURE
new and interactive way to communicate and explore cultural values