After its great success in 2007, this edition also saw the participation of an Estonian school and a Chinese school.
"Rennpappe was born out of childhood memories, in a village in the mountains which was just timidly beginning to open up to winter tourism", said Kuno Prey, Dean of the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano.
"The village chairlift had metal chairs, much like garden chairs, hanging from a cable."
"With temperatures which reached 20 degrees below freezing, sitting there was certainly no pleasure."
"So the employees of the chairlifts offered the skiers a square of cardboard to sit on, as insulation."
"These pieces of cardboard would sometimes fall from the chairlift and the local children would pick them up, sit on them and off they would go down the ski runs."
During the three days of the workshop, 52 students of 10 international design schools had the task of creating a sports apparatus, only using cardboard found in the streets of the city centre, glue and cutters.
The "rennpappen" (racing cardboards), designed and made at the university in just one and a half days, were thoroughly tested in an exciting race held on the snow of the Obereggen-Latemar ski area.
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