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Just stumbled upon this great video for a Dutch band named TIKA. As you do not know I’m working in a personal project, soon to go live, on ‘happy places’. This video so fits into that.
In the documentary music video, actor ‘giant’ Carel Struycken (who rose to fame by playing iconic freaks in pop culture, 
Emily Dickinson

I’m truly happy to say that I’ve been invited as a visiting teacher at CEDIM, a place that felt like a candy store when I was there last year, full with unlimited potential to create anything. I will be there from 9 to 20 April. Looking forward to it!

‘Driving safely in the dark: opportunities for design as the crisis unfolds’. It is the full title of the lecture held by John Thackara on December 15th, to celebrate BNO’s 15th anniversary. I have been a fan of him for a long time, following 
Margaret Mead
Steven Furtick (via Pieter Spinder)

Nice interview by Submarine with Jeff Hull of Nonchalance at PICNIC festival 2011, a hybrid arts studio in San Francisco with an expertise in Situational Design. Jeff’s company created The Jejune Institute, an immersive game set in San Francisco 

The PICNIC Creative Business Club is a network of companies and organizations which comes together throughout the year. Its objectives are to create the future and explore game-changing solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges.
Members participate in PICNIC events and connect with a diverse group of Dutch and international professionals, entrepreneurs and young 

My talk is online. Enjoy! All nine ideas in detail about closing the Dream Gap you can find here, final two coming up!
Brian Wilson

Looking forward to be speaking at Trendsfactory in January. I will be sharing things we’ve learned from working with and for schools, and how you can apply them in other territories. Will be fun!

Got this image from Jan Willem Weissink, CEO Corio Nederland when we were working on Hoog Catharijne together. He took it at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy. It’s a work by Maurizio Nannucci from 2003. It’s so relevant 
Had good fun today in Meppel, talking about my ups and downs as an ‘entrepreneur’. And did that fully uncensored and that was nice too, even more because my mum and brother were there. Great to learn more about local initiatives that are heavily influenced by technology. Key learning for me was though that ambitions 
Malcolm Gladwell
Jonathan Swift

Choosing for a school is hard enough as it is when you’re 12. Making that easier we can not, that’s something personal. But for Stad&Esch we decided to be at least be really clear what we stand for and inform you well. So we filmed students on different subjects, to get their opinion 

Spotted this on Fran’s blog, to cool:
Bruce Mau’s The Bureau of Doing Something About it: A pop-up studio, working in real-time, designed solutions in response to complaints.
Last year, the Toronto Complaints Choir, produced as part of the 2010-2011 World Stage season at Harbourfront Centre, collected 