Day #10 - The end of the Game

The Game ended on 18th November.

Final Scores of the Game

The winner was team MakeKielGrateAgain and their final statement was "You asked me: "How to make Kiel great again?" -Kiel is a beatiful city with beautiful people. We will do everything to ensure that Kiel rises to be the best city in Germany."

The Second in the Game was team #assstag, here are their final thoughts:




Third in the Game was Synkea Jr. and they felt like this:

All the students got Diploma of the first ever Seppo Game of Intensive Course in Intercultural Approach to Design Thinking

All teams together

Day #9

Today the teams uploaded their team spirit into Seppo!

Day #8 Prototyping

The teams prepared very innovative prototypes of their projects. The drafts included video, animation and 3D modeling. Very hard working day!


Kiel Center Prototype from team Syneka Jr.

The prototype from team #assstag

3D modeling from team MakeKielGreatAgain

Day #7 Testing in theory and practise

The exercise was to write an entry on team´s experiences as testers. Students enjoyed the testing session as they met an other group of service designers, who had worked with the same Kiel marketing project, but stayed in Finland. One of the teams wrote that "it was very challenging not to push your own ideas or listen the idea at whole and then comment after the presentation".

Best grades for this day got team Syneka Jr. We have now three days of Seppo game left, and MakeKileGreatAgain is leading. The differences between the teams are under 100 points.

Testing session in Laurea, Leppävaara.

Day #6 in Helsinki

The exercise of the day was "What are your impressions on comparing Kiel and Helsinki from the tourist´s viewpoint." Teams made great videos and they seemed to had fun when making observations in Helsinki city centre.

The winner of the day was team MakeKielGreatAgain. They had really completed the task in full with they several short video clips and deserve full points!





Video clip from team MakeKielGreatAgain


Video clip from MakeKielGreatAgain


The others made some capturing videos from Helsinki, enjoy them here!




Video from team #assstag




Video from team Syneka Jr.

Flash exercise: Teamselfie in Helsinki

During the weekend the teams traveled from Kiel to Helsinki. This week we are working in Laurea, Espoo. The teams had an extra exercise in Seppo: Take a teamselfie for the first moment you are on the Finnish ground.

Team Syneka Jr. has arrived in Helsinki

Team #assstag

Team MakeKielGreatAgain

Day #5 Customer Journey

All teams have done great work with customer journeys and they are worth developing further. Paper and pencil again seemed to be an effective tool in face-to-face work. We also used realtimeboard.com as well as other digital tools during the workshop.

Examples of customer journeys

Day #4 Creative Ideation

The exercise was to write an entry on the team´s ideation process. All the students´ ideation work was marvelous. The entries could have had more analytical touch and self-reflection, but otherwise great work 👍

Team #assstag is leading the game after 4 days!

Ideation in action

Ideation in action

Ms Barbara Reschka guiding #ideation process

Day #3 Creating personas

Every team created convincing Personas with good stories. The winner of the day was team #assstag with Freja-Astrid and Johann.  The Second pleace went to team MakeKielGreatAgain with their personas Harold and Jana. The third team was Syneka Jr. with Tobias S. and Johanna. The teams got their scores and short feedback in Seppo.

We found a great free tool for creating personas Xtensio https://xtensio.com/user-persona/

Team #assstag

Day #2 Existing tourism services

The exercise was to upload two short videos (max  1- 2 min) on existing tourism services in Kiel. What things raised team´s interest or any emotional response in these services? Teams used their storytelling skills nicely. The best team was Syneka Jr. again! The second was team #assstag and third was  MakeKielGreatAgain. The difference in points was slight.



Team Syneka Jr.




Team #assstag




Team MakeKielGreatAgain

Day #1 Cross-cultural communication

The first Seppo exercise was to upload team´s first impressions on intercultural communication and cultural artefacts as a series of photos (3 - 5 best shots).

All the teams did a very nice work! Winner of the day was team Syneka Jr. and here is the series of their photos. The team really plunged into new learning process :-)

Intercultural Approach to Design Thinking

We started in Kiel today a new Seppo Game for Intercultural Approach to Design Thinking. Players are students from Laurea and Kiel Universities of Applied Sciences. There are three teams and each team has 4 players. The game is running until November 18th. Seppo is used as a learning diary in the 2-week intensive course and it collects the main lessons learned together at each day.

There will be 10 exercises (one for every working day) and perhaps some flash exercises, which are extra, but obligatory. First week we play in Kiel and second week in Espoo. Let the Game begin!

Seppo Game for Intercultural Approach to Design Thinking