At the HCI for Safety Summer School, I enjoyed being able to come together with peers from around the world and hear from their perspectives. It was interesting how different cultures brought forth different value systems and thus different ideas about safety and human-centered design. For instance, on the first day of the Summer School, the participants were grouped together to design a bridge - a maritime control center - that functioned better for the people who were running the ship. After listening to Margareta Lützhöft explain current difficulties that mariners face with their ships’ bridges - such as bright lights that interfere with a captain’s night vision - us participants began discussing ideas. I was intrigued by the variety of ideas that the participants came up with; from changing the structure of the bridge’s buttons to developing a new mapping system for the controllers, and even finding ways to keep the captain awake, the diverse academic and cultural backgrounds led to creative and functional prototypes of the bridges. In most if not all of the prototyping workshops during the Summer School, the participants came up with designs that involved humans monitoring the computer. From this experience, I learned more in-depth about HCI for the maritime domain and how to work with others to tackle complex problems. What followed this was a week packed full of more stellar workshops and informative lectures.