Letter to New York

Letter from my mentor Lars Lundbye to Simeon Bankoff, head of the Historic Districts Council:

"Dear Simeon,

I hope you’ve had a great summer.

As promised I now get back to you on our joint project: Creating a prototype for the Historic Districts Council’s virtual portal for communities and neighborhoods.

As we talked about the setup is as follows:

The Danish School of Television wants to expose the most talented of our students to extraordinary challenges, including building multimedia websites for companies in other countries. In the spring semester we are sending our students to USA, Spain and Ireland where they will stay between 5 and 12 weeks building the sites in collaboration with local businesses.

We work under the auspices of WISE (Workshop for Innovation Studies and Entrepreneurship) helping companies and organizations develop new innovative projects in collaboration with students from a number of Danish colleges and universities.

The students will arrive in New York February around Feb 6th, unless otherwise arranged with you.

Our students are very skilled, but building the multimedia websites is an educational challenge we impose on them, not professional work that would require payment.
The only thing required by Historic Districts Council, is that you provide workspace, coaching and equipment to the student – setting up a room at HDC on 11th street with four work spaces. Most likely the students will bring their own computers – but this you will talk with the students about.

I have as we agreed upon identified the first two students (two more will follow), so that you may enter a dialogue over the next couple of months as to the project goals and premises. Both of them, Mette Ohlendorff and Kristina Karlson, are very talented students: Creative Producer within Cultural Productions with each their angle: New Media design and film. To the team we will add a programmer and one more depending on the project description, that Mette and Kristina will produce with you over the next months.

There is some formalities that w e will have do, such as going through a visa process – where you will have to fill out a few papers, but we will get back to that.

I would like to have the students get in contact with you to do a tlph. Interview so that they can have a first hand impression of your ideas and visions. Is that OK, that I ask Mette and Kristina to mail you and arrange this?

I look very much forward to this project: It has great opportunities and challenges and I think it may form something that we can get back to in later projects as well.

Very best wishes

/Lars

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Lars Lundbye
Director
The School of Television
Copenhagen, Denmark"