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CINEMAKE

Taste stories behind films

Alessia Orizio | Naiyi Chia | Pan-Shin Wan | Ryohei Kawagishi

Collaborated with Nuovo Armenia

CHALLENGE

In a neighborhood with 25% habitants who came from other countries, how can we help an NPO create more opportunities to help habitants know each other?

SOLUTION

We provide multicultural experiences with cooking, film night, and archiving the events in the neighbor in order to create a stronger community.

ROLE

Research, Concept generation, UIUX, Graphic

What is CInemake?

CINEMAKE produces multicultural experiences with cooking, film night, and archiving the events. Thanks to CINEMAKE, participants will have spontaneous communication to share their own cultural backgrounds.

And thus, CINEMAKE supports the neighborhood and reinforces the identity of the community.

FOOD

FILM

COMMUNITY

Method

Before jumping to the result, this is the method we used to develop the project. Under the triple diamond structure, the whole process can be divided to these four steps, research co-design, pss design, and prototyping.

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Reasearch

In order to thoroughly understand the whole context of this community and organization, we conducted the research through field investigations, several interviews with stakeholders, including the organization and the audiences, literature reviews, and study cases analysis. 

I listed some key points of the research in the following strips. Also, you can download the whole research booklet if you are interested in the topic of immigration in Milan, art performance, and community solidarity.

RESEARCH
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FIELD INVESTIGATIONS

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LITERATURE REVIEW

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INTERVIEW

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STUDY CASES ANALYSIS

How did it start?

A MULTICULTURAL ZONE

  • Globalization has accelerated the demographic movement
     

  • In Bovisa and Dergano, a huge industrial area from 19th, these two districts of northern Milan has nearly 25% habitants came from other countries.
     

  • The foreign communities more present in this area are Chinese, Egyptian, and Filipino communities.

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ABOUT NUOVO ARMENIA

  • Nuovo Armenia is a non-profit organization located in Bovisa and Dergano.
     

  • It aims to create a strong community in the area by their activities with film and music.

  • They have invited many artists, musicians and filmmakers from all over the world.

  • Mostly, the participants are Italians.

WHAT WE FOUND

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​New inhabitants have no confidence to share the culture

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Language barrier makes the communication difficult

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Low relevance between each event are hard to keep people engaged

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The targets are lack of information to participate

WHAT WE EXPECTED

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Engage different groups of people in several process

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Calling
attention from target audiences

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Keep people engaging by impressive experiences

CO-DESIGN

Co-Design is a participatory design process with all the stakeholders, including users, experts, and staff from the organization. With the ideas from the people who will be truly involved in the design, we can make the views more comprehensive and realistic. The ideas will have a higher possibility of being executed. 

There was a lockdown when this project came to a co-design process, forcing us to turn the physical workshop into virtual workshops. This challenge allowed us to understand and manage the difference between offline and online sessions.

To have the ethnic diversity, we had...

6 co-design sessions
4 staff from Nuovo Armenia
9 audiences living in Milan from 7 countries
2 shop owners as collaborators 

I listed some key points and a summary video of the co-design session in the following strips. Also, you can download the booklet if you are interested in the details.

CO-DESIGN
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CONCEPT IDEATION

CO-DESIGN TOOLS

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OFFLINE CO-DESIGN

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ONLINE CO-DESIGN

SO we had a concept evolution

Thanks to each Co-Design Session we were able to reinforce the starting concept arriving to a new one.

Food as a way to create community

Food as the means to enrich culture understanding throughout the neighbor

Film that accompany others activity / parallel dimension

Film for creating new activities related / integrated dimension

Stories that represent the community variety

Stories that investigate about the community variety

PSS DESIGN

With the insights from co-design, we started to make the concept more solid These service design tools help us defining the details and presenting the design concept. 

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WHO WILL JOIN CINEMAKE?

  • By analyzing the people we had interviewed and codesigned with, we defined three user types to clarify how these people would join CINEMAKE.
     

  • With a stakeholder map and user profile, we can get the role and features of each user type in the service.

WHAT CINEMAKE CAN OFFER?

  • In the storyboard, a general flow of participating in the event can be shown.
     

  • The offering map can present more details about all the elements of this service no matter online or offline, tangible or intangible.

WHERE TO HOLD CINEMAKE?

  • We considered the space of Cinemake and drew a map of the venue to organize each event and where they happen.

HOW DOES CINEMAKE WORK?

  • A system map is a useful tool to understand the relationship of each character in the service.
     

  • At the same time, a business model canvas can help us manage the service from a business perspective.
     

  • A service blueprint is a tool for us to understand the whole journey from both the customer and service provider's perspectives.

WHY CINEMAKE IS VALUABLE?

  • The social innovation scanner helped us evaluate the solution with 7 social impact standard.
     

PROTOTYPING

I made a prototype of the website for a cultural log book. It is an online cloud archive collection and offline commemorative card, which records past activities, provides a channel for people who cannot physically participate in learning about foreign cultures and enhances their willingness to participate in the next event.

PROTOTYPING
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