One day without blogging leaves me in charge to cover two days - and what two days I have to cover. Yesterday, we went to SAP Argentina for this Social Sabbatical's official kick-off. Every team met their clients for the first time - and so did we with Federico from Puerta 18 and our interpreter and assistant Juan Manuel.
The afternoon we spent at Puerta 18. On Mondays, activities are only half-day, and only with the young people of age 18+. We started our first long interview with Federico and learnt a lot about what Puerta 18 offers to the target audience of young people between 13 and 24 years. Our understanding about who attends Puerta 18, which staff works with the kids, and what the philosophy of Puerta 18 is, made a huge step forward. Here are some great quotes that we heard both yesterday and today (I am also using Rob's notes to come up with these):
- Do not make consumers, make creators.
- The ideas is not to know – it’s to learn with the kids.
- We are producers of the ideas of the kids.
- Close the gaps.
- It's about learning, not teaching.
- ... and there were many more ...
Today, we returned to Puerta 18 and met the staff of Puerta 18, amongst them Carolina who was our second interview partner. The picture she provided was very consistent with what Federico talked about, and together with all the input that we received today, we tried to understand the architecture of the organization and started collecting the main categories into which we will need to look for our scope of work.
All in all, we spent two packed days at Puerta 18, lgot deep insights, received a really very friendly and enthusiastic welcome, felt the passion of the Puerta 18 staff and learnt incredibly much. To wrap up the day, we meeted with the other three groups and exchanged our experiences from the first two days. The range was from "we almost suspect our client's scope of work is too narrow" from one team until "we are facing quite some challenge in narrowing our client's scope of work" from another.
But now for the photo impressions of these two days:
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| From left to right: Rob, myself, Federico, director of Puerta 18 (center), Janice and Juan Manuel, who helps us a lot with his translations |
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| First glimpse into Puerta 18 - a team working on creativity techniques, watched by Janice and Federico |
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| Puerta 18 is about leveraring the ideas of the young people between 13 and 24 years old |
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| Interviewing and learning from Puerta 18 coordinator Carolina (center) - together with Janice (right) and Juan Manuel (left) |
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| View into Puerta 18: Young people working on the computer - being there, you are breathing a very concentrated and creative atmosphere |
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| Creativity with 3D-printing |
