Disney Trip Has Storybook Ending

A team of NC State students designed a traveling theme-park experience featuring some of Disney’s most popular stories to win third place in Walt Disney Imagineering’s 25th Imaginations design competition last month.

设计学院的四名本科生是来自八所大学的20名学生，他们赢得了南加利福尼亚州南加州的旅行.25-29作为竞争激烈的创造性挑战的决赛者。

“我们觉得我们有一个良好的镜头，”艺术与设计中级的高级威廉姆斯钱德勒·威廉姆斯说。“因为他们宣布获胜者，我们只是站在那里屏住呼吸。”

On their return to campus last week, the students still seemed breathless as they described the whirlwind excursion, which included behind-the-scenes tours of Disney Imagineering’s headquarters and face time with some of the top creative professionals in the entertainment industry. They’re now waiting to learn whether they’ve scored one-year internships at the company — a possible perk of the trip.

“It was magical,” Williams says. “Something we’ll remember forever.”

The team came together last October when industrial design students Emily Wise and Kevin Lee invited Williams, whom they remembered from their first-year studio course, to join them in brainstorming for the competition. She, in turn, contacted fellow art and design student Simon Park.

“We knew we needed someone who could do illustrations, and I knew the guy for the job,” Williams says. “So I asked Simon, and about 30 seconds later he said yes, and that was our team.”

Worlds of Adventure

对于今年的竞争，迪士尼挑战队伍设计旅行体验，可以为美国巡回小镇，为没有机会访问迪斯尼公园的家庭。这场临时场地将在每个社区中运作两到三天，不会超过一天来设置和分解，并应该体现沃尔特·迪斯尼第一建造迪斯尼乐园的家庭娱乐。

The NC State team’s entry, “Ostium: An Adventure Behind Every Door,” includes plans, illustrations and a narrative describing an expandable, portable exhibit that uses interactive media and live-action elements to allow guests to step into their favorite worlds, inspired by the Disney and Pixar stories of狮子王,Frozen,Toy Story,怪物公司。和海底总动员.

“我们的目标是交通人环境和worlds they haven’t been able to experience before,” Wise says. “And to transport them into their imaginations.”

他们还努力设计一种将吸引不同年龄段的家庭和访客群体的经验。“我们希望客人共同努力，以共同的原因，”李解释道。“我们希望鼓励探索和互动。”

寿命

As finalists, they went head to head against other top teams presenting concepts to an audience of Imagineering judges in California. Preparing for that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was grueling.

“In the weeks leading up to the trip, we expanded on our idea twice,” Williams says. “We made up an entire family that went to our park that had their own personalities and back stories. And our ideas for logistics — how we were going to build the parts — changed every week. We had to do an incredible amount of work in a short amount of time.”

但学生们有大量的资源，包括一个NC州立创新和设计教师集群的教师克里斯蒂安Hölljes，包括在旧金山湾区花了17年的创造和利用突破性技术产品。Hölljes帮助学生改进了他们的演讲，并建议他们与NC国家团队交谈，在2012年想象力竞争中首先举行。

Members of the 2012 team offered practical tips as well as a unique perspective. Above all, they told the students, enjoy the trip.

“他们一直告诉我们，”这将是你生命中最美好的一周，“帕克记得。“我们说，'不，这将是一周的面试，我们有很多压力，一切都在一天。”

当然，就像任何迪斯尼故事一样，一切都始终挺身而出。

“我们肩膀上的加利福尼亚队伍，帕克说。“但我们作为羽毛点亮。”