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  • Notes from the EU conference on Social Innovation, 16-17 March 2011, Brussels

    Last month we attended the EU social innovation conference in Brussels, a great two day conference filled with discussion, interaction and the building up of new relations. We enjoyed talks by Geoff Mullgan of…

    March 20, 2011
    News, Systems
  • One line of service design

    Questioning the question and looking for answers by designing the research. The people involved are the experts on what they do and why or what they actually would want, it is our…

    May 31, 2008
    Thought
  • Design thinking ‘for business’

    You can read it everywhere, business should use design thinking, but what do they mean by this. What is design thinking and how is it used? Creativity It all starts with Creativity.…

    April 24, 2008
    Thought
  • Education and service design

    Education and service design How, what and why This blogpost is about a big dilemma, problem, issue, idea, that needs some thinking, feel free to comment, add, adjust to work toward an…

    January 24, 2008
    Thought
  • The question why

    The question why is at the same time the most destructive and most amazing question there is.

    January 1, 2008
    Thought
  • The world is square

    ‘The world is square, borders are square, land is square, street blocks and houses are square, gardens are square, doors and windows are square, trees are square, furniture is square, cars are…

    June 15, 2007
    Thought
  • Function has lost it’s functionality

    You can say that design has lost its value when the function of things disappears. From a different perspective you could also say that contemporary design is not talking about function, but…

    April 29, 2007
    Thought
  • Communication in design

    Design is all about the communication. You can do whatever you want, in the end the only important thing is if the product of your process tells the story. If it communicates;…

    May 12, 2006
    Thought
  • Jungle

    Even today you see the returning images of sex, dirt, provocation, exposure … in the arts. Design in that matter does not show and hasn’t shown this basic animal side of human…

    November 25, 2005
    Thought
  • Every day…

    It’s quiet on the street. Everyone’s inside their homes defending it from everything that tries to interrupt there controlled existence. Inside it’s nice and comfortable. Nothing unexpected, the news and the commercials…

    October 19, 2005
    Thought
  • Meneer Groot

    Every person has a mascot, Mister Groot is mine, he is my example.

    April 25, 2005
    Projects, Systems

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  • Berliner Zeitung 3 March 2016
  • Guest speaker symposium “Transitions”
  • Berliner Woche 8 July 2015
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