Idealism | Local Intelligence

With a main interest in the systems, situations, and services people find themselves in, my focus is to find out how we can design new ways of living and working together. Through topics like public space, education, policy making, and business innovation, design is a service that has to rediscover its position in society. A designer has to be a person with the ability to redefine the relations between situations, systems, objects, materials and services in our society. Therefor I responds to what I see, hear and feel, offers solutions, alternatives and sometimes provokes with a comment.

My tweets

February 22, 2013 12:45
RT @HomeBaseProject: 3 days left to apply!!! http://t.co/e6mu2kTx4M
February 11, 2013 10:17
RT @HomeBaseProject: Apply NOW! or just spread the word for our upcoming HomeBase BUILD V Spring / Summer Residency In collaboration... ...
January 7, 2013 22:20
Local Squares Partnership REport on meeting 1: Metaphors in rethinking participatory processes in Urban planning http://t.co/SVDIieXQ
December 7, 2012 11:43
Check out the NEW European Network on Participative processes in Public space "Local Squares" - http://t.co/hV07SBA4
August 31, 2012 12:31
New post: Leonardo partnership 2012 "LOCAL SQUARES" http://t.co/FeA5EWmd

It is here, there and online. Local is the frame in which you are yourself

Local Intelligence

Jul, 2012

Local is a place that is defined by the group of people that holds it together

Local Intelligence

Jul, 2012

"Idealism" tag

April 2, 2012

Local Innovation Office

Het Lokaal Innovatie Bureau LIK; Het optimaal benutten van de lokale potentie. Een nieuwe manier om lokale sociale innovatie te stimuleren doormiddel van een lokale benadering. Kruisbestuiving, creatief denkvermogen en een persoonlijk advies staan centraal op weg…

July 3, 2011

HomeBase Lab Berlin organisational tools

In collaboration with HomeBase Lab Berlin Bas Kools is working in a business residence on location from within the organisation. This enables us to become aware and part of system to fully understand…

January 10, 2011

New ideologies

A masterclass into social design ideologies. Theoretic introduction; What is social design today. The main issues today (sustainability and climate change, Inclusive design and social inclusion) An historical overview of the major theoretical…

October 10, 2010

The future of Utopia – exhibition

The future of Utopia; Western Europe is being rocked by international financial crises and political shifts and it seems our leaders are looking for short term rescues to keep their countries and the…

September 5, 2010

The Future of Utopia – interviews

„The Future of Utopia“ is a publication about the future of idealism and how to work towards it. Since the first publication about Utopia through the english humanist Thomas More (1516), „Utopia“ has…

News

August 31, 2012

Leonardo partnership 2012 “LOCAL SQUARES”

Connecting and training participation experts in Europe Part of the European Leonardo da Vinci Partnership Program2012-2014 The Project The overall objective of LOCAL SQUARES is to contribute to the EU 2020 strategy of…

Video

July 24, 2012

Social Safari on Horizontal Accountability

As part of the Social Safari 2012 I worked on a case study for Stadsdeel Oost / City of Amsterdam, district East about how can citizens, in the case of budget monitoring of…

March 29, 2012

De Wijkbekijker

De Wijkbekijker (The neighbourhood explorer) is a location specific educational game for primary education age 7. During this project Teachers work together with their class investigating the neighbourhood they live in. With helps…

June 10, 2011

Met je school kopje onder @ OBS de Vlieger

As a part of the workshop series “Met je school kopje onder” (With your school under water) in collaboration with Lobke Meekes More information and images to be found on our project website.

December 5, 2010

Underwater love @ Hervion College

Underwater love als onderdeel van het project ‘Met je school kopje onder’ in samenwerking met Lobke Meekes, is een op maat gemaakt workshop programma voor basisscholen en het voortgezet onderwijs. Bezoek het blog…

September 20, 2010

The future of living on water

For the Niewe Veste, and stichting Electron Breda we made a workshop on the future of living on water with group 6 students (age 8). In collaboration with Lobke Meekes.

June 25, 2007

Captured by a chair

When intimidation becomes intimacy Liverpool street station, London: People rush past each other in anonymity, wait next to each other on a bench. People together, anonymous, alone, afraid to touch others, afraid to…

January 25, 2007

Flexible spaces

Houses are square, windows and doors are square, furniture is square, computers are square, tiles are square, A4 is square… What I see around me is standardization in squareness. Can it be different,…

December 1, 2006

Growing buildings

In my sense the today’s meaning of the word utopia is or should be a vision on life in the far or near future related to things that may happen or may be…

October 25, 2006

Motion swap

A project about swapping your life with that of someone else. I wasn’t really looking to swap my life with other people. But, maybe just a bit or on certain moment. A swap…

June 25, 2006

Captured

BREATHING FOAM (working concept model) Being captured by a chair, embraced by a pressuring softness, until you are released. Breathing, imagine, closing, intimidating, growing, almost touch, moving, embracing, trapping, soft, scaring … Imagine…

December 25, 2005

The perception of the word mug

The built in system (learned on a very young age) of terms in human understanding of things. What is a MUG, the perception of a cup and the understanding when a thing is…

December 5, 2005

Publication TV Pop-up 12-2005

October 25, 2005

Public shortcut

Public space is about providing a service to the public. I added a possibility to take a shorter route to the garden instead of walking all the way around the flat by constructing…

April 25, 2005

Meneer Groot

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

April 25, 2004

Mouthcup

I made this project with the same intentions as the “Lolly lab” but with another approach to that same idea. This mug is an example of the process of an experiment. I tried…