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…
Connecting contemporary art with social innovation
We believe that the complex processes that shape our society can be part of a shared effort and therefore looked at in a much broader sense. In fact an open and creative mind is necessary to come to new understandings of how situations can…
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…
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,…
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…
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 the…
Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre
Collaborative project proposal for the Designer and Artist for genomics awards 2010. A piece of cheese with a great smell, washing powder that work with low temperatures or a tablet to get rid…
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…
Trgovina
Future scenarios is what we sell! The scenario’s are to implement slowly in communities and experiment with how we can live in a world based around other values than just the economic. Experiments…
Shop machine
A shop that produces itself. This project is a shop concept developed for a temporary shop. The production line of the shelving is an essential part of the shop. The shop produces its…
Scenario generator
A real life role playing game for politicians developed for “Het Instituut” and the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. The Scenario Generator can the best be seen and a game. A game in…
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…
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…
Policlinic of the future
For “Het Instituut” in collaboration with designer Isabelle Scholtemijer I worked on a project where a selected group of artists and designers helps to create new visions on the future of the policlinic…
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…
A dictionairy of free association
Through, we look at design The dictionary of free association Bas Kools & Yohanna-My Nguyen use another kind of dictionary, a dictionary of free association. We do not see ourselves as graphic or…
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…
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 job…
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. This…
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…
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 realistic…
The question why
The question why is at the same time the most destructive and most amazing question there is.
A doctor for the workspace
For RSA Designdirections I worked on a vision how to deal with the recovery of mentally ill people While Recovering from mental illness, work takes an important position and can bring social and…
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 square,…
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 square,…
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 takes…
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…
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; the…
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 kind….
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 on…
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