About Monday's lecture

The lecture(s) held on Monday were very interesting and personally I feel that it was easy to find links to our project:

1) Beyond vision
- the lecturer started by mentioning that it is easier to work in group, which I agree as long as the group shares the same vision and goals. The examples represented here were quite different although there were many common factors.
The most important was to hear how environmental aspects can be taken into account already in the planning phase by the architechs.
Also the main concern about using renewable energy was important, although as the lecturer said; local people won't necessarely care how the energy is produced and besides they may have some prejuduces against some renewable energy forms, e.g. biogas. Getting the people being involved with project will make it possible that they adopt it "as their own", which will eventually mean that the project won't die away right after the financiers/developers leave.

2) Shalin ry
- the group work given was most likely one of the challenging ones so far; 5 minutes time to find solutions how to solve the energy problems/issues of developing world! Yes, do that and get the Nobel prize...
It was nice to hear something that supperted my own vision about development projects, one can try to do everything "by the books" but the reality can be totally different. The (mean of) communication is also something that one has to give specific attention.
In here also it was mentioned that is good that end-users have some tangible to see, already in the early planning stage.

3) NSN
- naturally it was interesting to hear from the Village Connection; how it has started, what different kind of phases there has been and what kind of problems.
The part where Mika was talking about working with communities was closely related to our project, we also should solve a problem(s). Also, who is in our project the customer and customer's customer? What different needs they have and how those differ from each other?