The Future of Utopia | 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.

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

The Future of Utopia

The future of Utopia is a research project to investigate what idealism is about today and how, in this diverse and complex world we can work toward ideals worth fighting for. How does Utopia exist today?

December 23, 2011

Practical Policy Making Europe

A project to make grass roots policy creation a possibility by combining top down and bottom up experiences of all stakeholders involved. This document is a first step in the direction of realising…

July 5, 2011

Soft systems

My wish to live in a soft system If we look at all the possible uses of the word soft than we might get an understanding of what soft systems can be about,…

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…