Astrid travels to Copenhagen to visit Københavns Professionshøjskole
Astrid went on a journey to Copenhagen to visit Københavns Professionshøjskole (KP), the school where teachers learn to teach. We visited their future classroom lab where they focus on how to utilize VR, AR and computation in teaching. Several members of their lab were able to test our Garden of Choices virtual reality experience and […]
Engineers in Denmark learn about Astrid’s low-poly VR solution
Vanessa, Strategic and Interaction Designer, introduced how Astrid uses low-poly graphics for the Virtual Reality experience in Garden of Choices. This is part of a publication series called “Greater Spaces” on Ingeniøren, the Engineering news site in Denmark. You can read the article here, and learn about the design decisions we made and the challenges […]
Youth activists join workshop at Hitt Húsið
At the national assembly of the Icelandic Youth Environmentalist organization, the Astrid team was asked to introduce ‘Garden of Choices’. The event was live broadcasted nationally which gave the opportunity for people around Iceland to tune in. Lemke Meijer, Interaction and Concept Designer spoke about our philosophy in how we approach climate change education […]
Speaking to the Mayor of Reykjavík about the future of climate change education
We were honored to receive Dagur B. Eggertsson Mayor of Reykjavík, and Climate and educational leaders from the City of Reykjavík to discuss the future of climate change education in Iceland with us. We presented our vision for Astrid and discussed how difficult it is to communicate relevant, scientific information in a comprehensible way for […]