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Engineering Solutions for Inclusive & Sustainable Live Music

Engineering Solutions for Inclusive & Sustainable Live Music

Creathon INSA Hauts-de-France 2025
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Our challenge

This challenge immerses students in the heart of the creative process, using design thinking to develop innovative products and services. Each year, the Créathon training program explores a different theme in collaboration with industry stakeholders. This year, the focus is on music—ensuring its widest possible reach. The challenge will explore music’s use, practice, listening habits, and accessibility to new audiences. The program’s partners play a key role in enriching the cultural life of Hauts-de-France (Northern France), including concert venues, performance spaces, public authorities, and music schools. Following online sessions on the fundamentals of design thinking, the challenge takes place on-site through a 5-day mobility program (which can be extended to 7 days). If you opt for the 7-day mobility, you will participate in the Fête de la Musique, a nationwide celebration of music, prior to the start of the challenge week, using it as a live case study. During the obligatory 5-day mobility week, you will then form creative teams of six and engage in five intensive days of hands-on problem-solving—interwoven with inspiring musical events.

The Team

YM
Yves Mineur
Teamcher
GR
Guillaume Richard
Teamcher
MT
Marie Thilliez
Teamcher
AV
Antoine Veyer
Teamcher
JB
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Jeremy Basley
Teamcher
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Study format
Blended
Application period
19 February – 18 April 2025
Study period
12 June – 27 June 2025
Credits
3 ECTS
Pace
0%
Hosting university
INSA Group
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Learning outcomes

Identify user/client needs and formulate innovate opportunities

By the end of this challenge, you will be able to identify user/client needs and formulate potential innovative opportunities in response to them.

ESCO SKILLS

Implement innovation and creative processes to develop innovative solutions

By the end of this challenge, you will be able to implement appropriate innovation and creative process in order to develop innovative and dynamic solutions using digital devices and applications.

ESCO SKILLS

Deliver a project as part of a team

By the end of this challenge, you will be able to work efficiently as part of a multicultural and multidisciplinary team.

ESCO SKILLS

Communicate an original concept concisely, clearly, and persuasively

By the end of this challenge you will be able to produce a concise, clear, and convincing way to promote an original concept.

ESCO SKILLS

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Music plays a vital role in creating shared experiences and bringing people together. However, organizing and broadcasting a cultural event is no easy task. Festivals and municipalities must rethink how they design accessible, sustainable, and engaging experiences for all audiences—including people with disabilities, children, and underprivileged communities.

This is where our challenge comes in. Stepping into the role of creative engineers, students will collaborate with local stakeholders to develop innovative solutions that make music accessible to everyone. How can we design inclusive experiences that allow people with mobility restrictions or sensory impairments to fully participate in a festival? How can a city ensure that a cultural event reaches all its citizens, regardless of their background? How can we reduce the environmental impact of large-scale music events?

Over just a few days, student teams will tackle these critical questions, combining creativity, technology, and user-centered design to develop concrete, practical solutions. Their work will not only offer fresh perspectives but also provide actionable strategies for local decision-makers.

Hosting university

INSA Group

INSA Group

Challenge providers

Les Nuits secrètes
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux