Instructions Budapest Coolhunt
For the international Cool City Hunt Tour Science of the Time is doing with Fontys, Sylvie Dieteren and Ingeborg Bruinewoud lectured on the “Budapesti Gazdasagi Foiskola”, Budapest Business School, the1st of March. At this page the Coolhunters can find all the information they need to accomplish a good Coolhunt.
ABOUT COOLHUNTING
The participants have to ‘hunt’ for everything they think is ‘cool’. The definition of Science of the Time’s ‘Cool’ is “attractive and inspiring with future growth potential”. It is not about the gadgets but the mentalities behind it. Coolhunting is simply searching for things, products, services, people etcetera that are attractive and inspiring and with future growth potential for you and the ones around you. This could be everything as long as you are able to explain why you think it is cool. Look on the website or especially the Top-15 to get inspired by others.
COOL MENTALITY TRENDS
To give this research some direction, the Coolhunt focusses on TEN trends:
1. Urban Nomads
2. The Social Web
3. Sane Recession
4. Cool Compassion
5. Help me to De-Stress
6. Anger, Distrust & Cynicism
7. Love Thy City
8. Let me Land
9. Total Transparency
10. Eco Cool
For all examples and short descriptions of the mentality trends
IMPORTANT WEBSITES
Log-in Webpage At this page you log-in to upload your assignment in the system
Special results page Budapest Coolhunt At this page you can check if you uploaded your assignment correctly and see what the other coolhunters uploaded. To see the results you also have to log-in.
For all details about uploading and logging-in: see ‘practical information’ below.
ASSIGNMENT
Make your own CoolHunt now!
You have to hunt for something COOL yourself.
Choose your FIVE favorite trends and find for each of these trends one example (either found/described online or in the real world, out on the streets) that is COOL. So: 5 uploads.
Remember, Cool is attractive, inspiring and with future growth potential within the own generation.
The COOL examples must illustrate the trend, and you have to write ‘Why it is Cool’.
This could be a short alinea, but it always makes clear:
- What trend are we dealing with
- Where you found it
- Why you think it is Cool
- Why it is a good example of the ‘main theme’ of the trend, or
- Why it takes the trend a little further.
- To what other trends can you link this Cool example.
Important:
-Always upload an image
-Always explain what it is and why it is cool
-On behalf of the international character of Science of the Time: Always write in English.
TIMEPATH
Deadline: 2010/04/08, 8th of April
But if you want feedback to improve your assignment before that deadline: upload before/on 31st of March.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Participating in the project is obligatory. Science of the Time will take a close eye on the content of the assignments: Insufficient assignments will be removed from the website after warning the student.
- Your username and password were emailed to you.
- If you don’t know how to post. Read this instructions: how_to_post-tutorial.pdf
- I can’t log in or I lost my password:
A) Email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). She will send you your password and username
B) With this password and your username you can log-on to the website.
C) Add your Cool Stuff on: http://www.scienceofthetime.com/eekernel
D) Your Cool Stuff will appear on a special page: The Budapest Coolhunt page http://www.scienceofthetime.com/coolhunt/
WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU
1. A great learning experience and a nice thing extra on your cv/portfolio. This assignment could be linked to competencies for your portfolio!
2. Worldwide fame if you are really good. We will show your examples on our leading website pages which has many visitors (over 15000 a month, many decision makers) worldwide. Also the best of the Cool City Hunts will be published in CODE, a cool magazine with Dutch origins that also is distributed in New York and Tokio.
3. Participation in a cool worldwide network. Entrance to the outcomes of the other Cool City Hunt projects. At this moment we use the same information as the Cool Hunters of other Universities. Exciting isn’t it? More groups of students working on almost the same assignment. The only difference is that the work will be posted online at your own special page: http://www.scienceofthetime.com/coolhunt/
4. Participation in the forthcoming Battle of the Best, in which the best people all over the world who are participating in the Cool City Hunt research will compete against each other. Or get selected like in the ‘Eurasian Student Top-25’, a product that gets a lot media-attention at the moment.
5. Future assignments for Science of the Time for which you will receive money, in case you proved yourself talented and interested.
6. A Fontys Coolhunt Certificate for very good/excellent students.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
Homepage:
-Every participant (student & education institution) agrees to the publishment of the outcome/Top-15 on the homepage of Science of the Time
-Publishing is always under the mentioning of ‘Cool Editorial Staff’, like: ‘A Coolhunter from xxx-Coolhunt (date) reported….’
-Unless the student want his/her name published, then they have to contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Special Coolhunt Page:
-Participants agree that the Coolhunt results at the Special Coolhunt Page are visible for other Coolhunt-participants, also from other Coolhunts
-Participants are allowed to comment and react on each other’s assignments, only at ScienceoftheTime.com
This to enable to reciprocal knowledge and inspiration (co-creation).