LIVING INNOVATION - Co-Creating the way we live in 2030

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Managing Sustainability

LIVING INNOVATION is an initiative started by 14 partners from all over Europe, including, major industry leaders, civil society and research organizations. They have joined forces to co-create more responsible approaches to innovation in the areas of smart homes and smart health.

The initiative will provide an online platform for discussion, knowledge creation and collaboration on new solutions that are beneficial to society and create new business opportunities. By engaging citizens and lead users in 18 co-creation workshops across five European countries, LIVING INNOVATION strives to co-create the way we will live in 2030 - combining creativity and business acumen, human-centred design and responsibility.

Benefits for citizens
• Shape your future home
• Become an innovator
• Have your voice heard

Benefits for companies
• Learn from the users
• Co-Create with peers
• Uncover new business opportunities

For more details please watch our 5 min project video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVToN1s5ZGw

A professional communication agency developed a visual design for the project, including a logo, colour codes, and an eye-catching watercolour painting (see below and http://www.LIVING-INNOVATION.net). As the collaboration with the agency was terminated, we are looking for a designer who can support us during the next two years along the already fixed design guideline (we are NOT looking for a re-design, but for additional visual elements and supporting material). As a first step we need a roll-up for upcoming events (sketch see below), including three additional watercolour paintings that should perfectly fit to the main painting we already have at hand.

The three watercolour paintings shall represent workshops focusing on

(a) Sleeping in the future home (i.e. a picture of a sleeping room in a smart future home)

(b) Cooking in the future home (i.e. a picture of a kitchen in a smart future home)

(c) Assisted living (with a special focus on blind and visually impaired people)

The winning design will fit best to the already existing painting and the design guidelines and best visualize the three themes.

The three watercolour paintings will be visual elements of a roll-up, that will be printed by a professional printing company. Therefore it shall be delivered as PPT or PDF in high resolution.

In addition, the three watercolour paintings shall be delivered as three independent vector graphics or high-resolution photoshop files (16.000 x 9.000 pixel). The different colours and objects should be on different layers, in order to allow future animations (similar to our 5 min project video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVToN1s5ZGw.

The following considerations should be taken into account when drawing the three additional watercolour paintings:
Interior design sketches: on purpose we did not make use of 3D graphics or perfectly rendered surfaces, but chose a style that signalizes that these are just sketches and there is still open room for creativity.

Cosy atmosphere: although we focus on high tech aspects of future living, the feeling at home should be safe and cosy (and not super-techno style). Therefore, we selected warm colours and technology is not dominating the room but embedded into it.

People in the focus: the rooms should not represent empty exhibition booths, but real environments in which people are living happily. At the moment we only have one person represented in the main painting (standing next to the little robot), but we plan for 3-5 additional “personas” (of different age, gender, colour) representing different target groups.

High tech aspect: Smart homes and smart health are about IT technologies embedded in our future homes. These tools should be visible (and therefore indicate that this is about the future, as the little robot), but they should not dominate the way we live.

If you need some background information about technologies and solutions addressing “Sleeping in the future home” please visit
https://www.the-ambient.com/feature…p-tech-181
http://acousticarchitects.net/index…ep-better/

If you need some background information about technologies and solutions addressing “Cooking in the future home” please visit
https://www.the-ambient.com/reviews…evices-469
http://www.homecrux.com/tag/smart-h…appliance/

If you need some background information about technologies and solutions addressing “Assisted living” (with a special focus on blind and visually impaired people) please visit
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobil…hnologies/
http://www.afb.org/prodmain.aspx