• 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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    • February 22, 2013 12:45

      RT @HomeBaseProject: 3 days left to apply!!! http://t.co/e6mu2kTx4M

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      RT @HomeBaseProject: Apply NOW! or just spread the word for our upcoming HomeBase BUILD V Spring / Summer Residency In collaboration... ...

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      Local Squares Partnership REport on meeting 1: Metaphors in rethinking participatory processes in Urban planning http://t.co/SVDIieXQ

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      Check out the NEW European Network on Participative processes in Public space "Local Squares" - http://t.co/hV07SBA4

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  • What means local for you?

  • 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

  • Public space

    Public space is a fascinating place. This is the place where authorities, business, and people meet. It is a space of sharing, of freedom and the other. My projects related to public space are a lot about the awareness you should have in this space, awareness that even relates to history and future as this is the space where we live together.

    Social Safari Stadsdeel Oost - Presentation 07

    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…

    Bas Kools - Local intelligence Budaörs 01

    Designing services using local intelligence

    This project is a collaboration with Jeccica Charleworth. A campaign to promote design thinking with a social approach in design education.?What do these terms mean to us, Service design & Local intelligence??Service design…

    Bas Kools - Vispoortplein Kampen 02

    Vispoortplein Kampen

    For “Het Instituut” in collaboration with Rosa Druijven en Lobke Meekes I performed a research to create a future vision on how the Vispoort square in Kampen can be developed and how the…

    Bas Kools - N340 Provincial road 16

    N340 Develloped

    For “Het Instituut” I worked on a project where a selected group of artists and designers helps to create new visions on the developments of the N340, a road between Zwolle and Omme…

    The Mobile Workshop Group

    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…

    Bas Kools - Active welfare 01

    Active wellfare

    In July 2008 I was involved in the Active Welfare Workshop, as part of the World Design Capital International Design Summer School in Torino. We where asked to take a look at the…

    Bas Kools - Muf Architecture_art 03

    Muf Architecture/Art

    For Muf Architecture Art I worked on presentation and Illustration for: the Beckton Alp project, Kings Cross square and The school of sharing in Cologne. I was also involved with setting up a…

    Bas Kools - Animalbench Beestenbank 05

    Animalbench

    Animal bench is a piece of public furniture for the local government of Waspik. A little village in the province Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands. This bench is based on the a dutch saying that…

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