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Dreamschool
About project Dreamschool

It makes me happy to share that I will be speaking at LIFT12 in Geneva. I will do an update on what has happened since my talk there last year. LIFT is a truly great event loaded with high quality inspiration, if you have 

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!

Maybe you remember the movie about a small boy who start a movement to do good by something he calls pay it forward. In the movie, the young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother’s alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies 

Theory is good, but not when you can put it into practice years later and find out that your knowledge is not knowledgy but knowlagged. An more agile approach to learning helps in better understanding what is being learned. Agile is a term introduced in 2001 and is now mostly used in software development. Like 

All crucial innovation projects are stealth: they are there, but you don’t see them. However, they will affect you when they’re done. Most of these trajectories are carefully protected behind agreements, the so called ‘Non Disclosure Agreements’ where all parties involved solemnly swear not to share anything involved with the project. And that way, a 

Already described earlier as Value Added to Society, but rewritten because of TEDxDelft.
We all want to help, but ‘how’ is mostly an issue. That’s why we like to introduce:
VAS, Value Added to Schools
VAT (Value Added Tax) we all know: it helps the great community you are part of with everything we need in order 

Today I had my final talk at Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, also known as Ibero, kindly hosted by Social Media Club Mexico. Even more great people and nice food. Thanks for having me!

Zona Maco Art Fair 2011, is the most important art fair of Mexico. The Urban Genome Project is an archive of interviews designed by the publisher Joseph Grima, the artist Pedro Reyes and creative collective Pase Usted. To date this file has gathered more than 500 interviews with mayors, architects, activists and various 

Today I had the opportunity to visit the initiatives Carlos Slim Foundation is undertaking. Carlos Slim is one of the world’s most important philanthropists and most people have never heard about his humanitarian activities. He owns stock in more than 200 companies that employ more than 200,000 people in Latin America and beyond. 

This morning Eva took me to Instituto Docet, a paradise for kids from 1 to 3 years old in Monterrey. What an amazing place to be. Kids learning by playing, growing plants, playing music, listening to music, covering all senses. The team is truly passionate about what they are doing there since only 

Pablo Collada, director and founder of Camino Ciudadano — a company dedicated to establish links between Civil Society Organizations, Private Sector and young people, in order to generate new responsible citizens, and I had the privilege to do an informal talk at Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey. And met again a bunch of great people. 

Just returned from a visit to CEDIM, an applied design school in Monterrey. And I can only say that I was truly amazed. Housed in a brand new contemporary building in the valley, you will find a great active atmosphere. You could feel the activity happening, even though it was quite a quiet 