New Member

We got a new member in our group, welcome Anne!

Anne Toftelund

I am a Dane, from the fairytale city Odense. After high school I went to Nottingham to dance for a year, I enjoyed my time in the UK very much: to get up in the morning knowing that I should dance, improvise and make choreography. Back in Denmark I earned money enough to go the Academy of Physical education, Gymnastikhøjskolen I Ollerup, a challenge in many ways. Inspired from a play I saw during my stay in the UK, I started to fence. Moving to Århus to study Scandinavian Language and Literature also gave me the opportunity to fence even more. Luckily to get into the Kaospilots, I stopped at university and have never missed it. The last three years I have been in the board of the fencing club, but my stay in Canada together with the KaosPilots is going to be a break and I’ll try something new, e.g. go skiing…. And please do not laugh too loud if you see someone in big, yellow skipants sliding backwards down the piste… could easily be me.
I’m looking forward to the stay in Canada. I’m sure that it is going to be fun, playful and creative. I'm good at digging into things, reformulate and presenting the results, sure it can be used in this project.

About...

Ellen Lidgren

I am raised and born in Stockholm, Sweden. After I graduated from high school I started to work as a waitress. At the age of twenty I had collected enough money to travel around the world. I backpacked for seven month around South America and South East Asia. When I came back home I got back to my old job, and took a course in photography. A little after that I decided to move to Barcelona and to learn Spanish and a lived there for six month. While there I applied for the Kaospilot education in Denmark and got in. A moved to Århus, Denmark the same year. Now during my mid education I am moving to Vancouver, Canada to work with sustainability and reusable food ware. I am a curious and inquisitive person, who loves to try out new challenges. I am use to group work and I am not afraid of taking the initiative.

Helene Hasen


I was born and raised in Herning, Denmark.
After high school I was working one year as waitress and bartender. But I wanted to see the world and therefore I started my journey in Austria where I took the Austrian ski instructor education. After this first season I have been working as area manager in Austria, Spain, Tunisia and Greece, for different Danish travel agencies.
After seven seasons I went home to start my studies in Denmark and am currently a student at the Kaospilot School in Århus. A creative business school with focus on project and process design and management.
Half way trough, my class mates and I are now heading towards Vancouver, CA to study and work with different projects regarding sustainability the project me and my group are to work on is a reusable food ware project.
I am an energetic, happy and eager person that sees challenges as opportunities instead of borders.


Pouria Ruhi

I was born in Iran, moved to Norway at the age of 9 and raised by my parents.
My life has been great, with lots of things happening, and lots of experiences. During my education I have been fortunate enough to have many different jobs. I have worked at a big communication house in Norway, I've sold guitars and pianos, been a nurse at a home for elderly people and also made subs at the world famous Subway, amongst other things.
After graduating from high school, I've been a student, first getting a bachelor from the university of Trondheim, Norway, in political science and history, and now I'm a happy go jolly student at the Kaospilot in Denmark.
During my student years, I worked a lot with TV, and just before starting the Kaospilot I produced a TV show for ZTV, not the biggest channel in the world, but still very fun thing to do. Now, Canada is the country of residence for the next three months. I hope that I can learn to love hockey, maple syrup, have more knowledge about sustainability, and maybe if I am lucky get hold of a Canadian Mounted Police uniform.

The group

Reusable Foodware Project

The City of Vancouver is working with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Organizing Committee and Federal Government partners to reduce waste for the Winter Olympics. To design, test, modify and retest waste reduction systems in the years leading up to the Games.

Our project is to provide Olympic volunteers, & spectators, with an ‘Olympic Lunch kit’. The City of Vancouver would like to problem-solve various aspects of reusable food ware in a retail node with a high restaurant density. Researching the opportunities, surveying restaurants and customers, designing the system & reusable container, and running real-world tests with sketch prototypes.