Basics Design: Design Thinking

Design Thinking

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Client: Empresas Públicas de

Medellín

Design:Cooperativa Mejía

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Design thinking: Large-scale

design to illuminate a large

area of a city

Empresas Públicas de Medellín

These installations, from Lights of Lifeby the river Medellín in Medellín, Colombia,

form part of the city’s 2008 huge Christmas lights display. Sponsored by public

services company Empresas Públicas de Medellín, the display illuminated many

areas of the city centre as it spread over 27 kilometres of its streets, and included

the use of 14 million lightbulbs, 5.8 tonnes of metallic paper, 220 tonnes of iron,

180 rolls of chicken wire and 300 kilometres of hosing.

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Title: Basic Design-Thinking

Client: QPL Size: 160mmx230mm

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