Mission Education | my mission to change education (from the inside)

Invent to Learn

April 5, 2017 / 0 comments

Learning is often confused with education The book Invent to Learn, written by Martinez & Stager, is marked as important by a lot of makers and educators throughout the world including the founder of MIT Media Lab. The reviews for the book made me curious earlier, but now the book is also translated (as well…

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

March 24, 2017 / 0 comments

We are experiencing a transition of society. There is a growing demand for workers who are creative, can work together, innovate quickly and easily, dare to try new approaches and are responsible for what they (want to) learn. The study for these complex skills (sometimes called ’21st century skills’) only take place on a very limited extent in…

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First try: SketchNote of Infographic Conference

March 6, 2017 / 0 comments

At friday march 3rd we, as students from the Master Design, visited the Infograpic Conference in Zeist. For every keynote and presentation we created sketchnotes, a way to collect your insights by creating little drawings instead of writing it all in text. I hereby present one of my sketchnotes on which I eleborated a little…

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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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Critical Reading

February 16, 2017 / 0 comments

Tonight lecturer Deanna Herst took us on a journey in critical reading. As maker and researcher I considered myself critical, but I found out that I am not that objective and critical at all. Especially when it comes to judging where the author is coming from and in which circle (or canon) it is participating. When…

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Contextmap extended

February 15, 2017 / 0 comments

I am still searching for the right way to collect my findings in a contextmap. I still don’t believe I have found the right way to combine my insights. I created an extended version of my contextmap. In this version I have written down associated tags, my main source (at the moment on this topic) and…

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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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Trails

February 1, 2017 / 1 comment

Doing research is a journey. I truly believe that we should do research throughout the complete proces of design. (In 2011 I’ve written my thesis (NL) on an insightdriven innovationtool which helps designers and makers to do research at all design stages.) I start my research based on three trails: Leaning by doing Life Long Learning…

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Research proposal

January 28, 2017 / 0 comments

My mission started in 2012 when I founded Stadslab Rotterdam, together with some collegues. The Stadslab, a Fablab+, started from educational needs in Higher Vocational Education in the field of Communication and Media Design, Media Technology, and Computer Science. It can be described as a FabLab+ with an emphasis on electronic and sensor devices, Internet of…

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