• 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.
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  • Education

    Through education, learning together, businesses, governments, communities but also the children at school, we all need to keep learning. Learning is something you do every moment of your life through experiences. By supporting people to start discovering and experimenting to rethink their own situations, to see challenges, to be able to design your own future, and the systems, situations and services around you.

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    Job agency for special professions

    Job agency for special professions is a collaborative project with Marja Reniers as part of the neighborhood culture project of En Plein Public Uitzendbureau voor Bijzondere Beroepen Project Blog > http://buurcultuuroosterheide.blogspot.nl/  Het Uitzendbureau voor Bijzondere Beroepen Een…

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    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…

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    Protein Scan AR

    An augmented reality web application for high school education in biomolecular life sciences. Together with Hienke Sminia of the NBIC (Netherlands Bioinformatics Center) and the team of BALLView team of the Center for…

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    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.

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    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…

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    Met je school kopje onder

    Even staat alles in het teken van leven onder water. Een nog onontdekte wereld waar dieren en planten leven die nog geen mens gezien heeft! Een spannende duik vol nieuwe ontdekkingen. Met je…

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    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…

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    Teaching teachers

    A workshop for INOS an educational organisation in the Netherlands where hands on Design thinking was applied to rethink the classroom. A first introduction to a group of teachers to become aware of…

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    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.

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    Neighbourhood signage

    For the Niewe Veste, the Breda graphic design festival and KOP in Breda, the Netherlands I participated in a project about signage for primary education. How can the children from the schools in…

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    Sharing the city

    The Mobile Workshop Group We are a group of designers that build future scenarios on how we can live together in new ways. For design colleges and institutes we develop workshops that on…

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    Designers are future makers

    The first Mobile Workshop Group workshop was held at Academy of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia in December 2008. The mobile workshop group was created by So Hyun Kim, Bas Kools, Nina Mrsnik and Henny van…

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    The Mobile Workshop Group

    The Mobile Workshop Group We are a group of designers that build future scenarios on how we can live together in new ways. For design colleges and institutes we develop workshops that on…

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    Square thinking DIY

    A workshop sheet that is a do it yourself version of the ‘Square thinking’ workshop. The goal and intention of this workshop is opening up eyes to ways of seeing and dealing with…

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    Square thinking

    As part of The big draw, Reachout RCA asked me to design a workshop for ±15 year old students of Erith school in Erith, Kent. The workshop ‘SQUARE thinking’. The goal and intention…

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    Design thinking

    Design is about making our world a little bit nicer to live in. Our design workshops take society as their starting point. The students will be looking at the everyday social problems they…

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