{"id":734,"date":"2017-05-01T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.lamk.fi\/ajoneuvomuotoilu\/?p=734"},"modified":"2017-05-01T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:00:16","slug":"lada-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/stancefinland\/2017\/05\/01\/lada-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"LADA 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lada 2050 Future Vision: The story began in\u00a02016 when our friends in Moscow suggested an ambitious project idea. We cautiously agreed to attempt a\u00a0project to collaborate with 2 other schools, and one very large car company.\u00a0The project was for Lada Moscow, and eventually\u00a0things were set in\u00a0motion when 12 of our students travelled to Moscow to take part in a 1 week workshop. Our generous hosts at Moscow Polytechnic looked after us handsomely, and that week was the beginning of a 3 month project coordinated\u00a0between Moscow Polytechnic, Steiglitz Academy of St. Petersburg, and Lahti Institute of Design. Lada Moscow chief designer Raphael Linari mentored the\u00a0students on this project, with close guidance and feedback every step of the way. We are all extremely grateful to his input. 36 students took part and worked as 6 teams of 6. Each team had 2 members from each school, to ensure cross collaboration. After the 1 week intensive workshops, development of vehicle concepts continued within each group- but with internal competition driving the projects. Students regularly pitched their projects to Raphael Linari, who was instrumental in his feedback, along with staff of all institutes guiding students. On our side, students were helped greatly by Tapani Jokinen with the strategic design and future scenario aspects of this project, and we thank him for that. 2050 is far in the future, and Lada as a business were interested in true blue-sky thinking. The competition was narrowed down to 9 designs (from 36) but eventually only one was chosen to be produced and developed fully. The project continued in 2017 in Moscow, with a specially selected team working to finish the final design. That team worked to create\u00a0a scale model for\u00a0the Moscow biennale Design exhibition, in\u00a0<\/span>April 2017. This video shows the final result of the project, and I have included a gallery of some of our activities in Moscow.<\/p>\n