Mission Education

my mission to change education (from the inside)

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The Museum of Failure

June 26, 2017 / 0 comments

We are to afraid to make mistakes, that’s not only a soft conclusion from my cultural probe study on mistakes but also the opinion of Samuel West, director of the Museum of Failure in Sweden. Why are mistakes that important in design and innovation? Mistakes are leading to innovation. And we need to acknowledge the…

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Living Atlas: Foutje bedankt, de foute(n) atlas

May 31, 2017 / 0 comments

[this publication and post is in dutch because of the dutch participants that joined the cultural probe] Ons onderwijs is aan veel verandering onderhevig. Toch lijkt veel van ons huidige onderwijs nog steeds op de oorspronkelijke inrichting. Tijden veranderen, en onze onderwijssystemen moeten bij de veranderende tijden aansluiten. Onderwijs moet voorbereiden op de snel veranderende…

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Insights from three expert sessions

May 10, 2017 / 0 comments

This week I joined three (!) different expert sessions on making in education, mainly focussing on monitoring and assessments. In this post I share my first findings / notes on these sessions. Monday: Learning group from teachers in universities of applied sciences. A few years ago I started several learning communities in as well primary as secondary education….

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Cultural Probe started

May 2, 2017 / 0 comments

During the last two weeks I prepared an Cultural Probe to collect more insights on making mistakes (and successes). I bought 14 diaries, 7 for mistakes and 7 for successes which I engraved with FOUTJE, (mistake) and bedankt (thanks). Next to that I choose 7 heavy paper sheets with a pattern for a call to…

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Interview Bas Leurs, Head of learning experiences at Nesta

April 28, 2017 / 0 comments

During my visit in London I arranged an interview with Bas Leurs. Before joining Nesta, Bas spent over a decade as a lecturer, programme leader and researcher for the Multimedia Design course at Rotterdam University. He played a key role in the curriculum development, and also co-authored the course’s national qualification profile. Areas Bas has…

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Cultural Probes

April 21, 2017 / 0 comments

Tonight we read five different articles on cultural probes and started a debate on the purpose and value of this design research method. During my (bachelor) graduation almost 7 years ago I stumbled upon this method for the first time. I was graduating at Zilver Brand Driven Innovation, a company by Erik Roscam-Abbing professor at the…

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Makers about learning

April 17, 2017 / 0 comments

Today I decided to interview some makers in the lab to gain some insights about the way they learn. In this blogpost I share some quotes from these five interviews.* Maker 1  I consider myself a designer with a background in art(design) Learning is an abstract word. For me is means that I try and…

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Superbook for Superteachers?!

April 13, 2017 / 0 comments

This book is on my shelf since Dutch Design Week 2014. But when moving some books, this one popped out yesterday. Wouldn’t this be a great form to inspire others on a specific topic. I can imagine this working for education (teachers and students) as well. Hoe to design that amazing learning environment? It is…

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Social Design

February 22, 2017 / 0 comments

As designer we are asked to shine (our) light upon the discussion about social design. In my practice as entrepreneur I use design daily to solve a various set of problems, also social issues. In 2015, for example, I participated in a project for the municipality of Bussum. In this project Bussum transformed the social domain…

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Contextmap

February 7, 2017 / 1 comment

To create an idea of my research  I created a mapping with my two research trails: learning by doing and life long learning.  I have abandoned my initial third research trail (named: the structure of higher education) for now. I am conducting research on the future of education. I truly believe that our current approach of…

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