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Little green & blue & purple & pink & orange & yellow & beige & grey & red Stad & Esch bags

For the open day, we created these cool fashionable put cotton bags. To carry as a tote or over your shoulder. It will also carry a 15″ laptop. In our aim to create something that lasts, we designed it to be distinct, not as another logo carrier. We thought it would be cool to connect readmore

An update on Project Dreamschool at LIFT12

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 readmore

Happykampers

Through my work and projects I get to meet and work with lots of amazing people; people who change things simply by touching them. These people can shift paradigms, change thinking, create both movement and movements, inspire others, make things happen and realize seemingly impossible projects. readmore

Guest lecturing at CEDIM, Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseno de Monterrey, Mexico

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!

Open day!

It’s done and I love it. Based on a simple idea, namely that a school is a lot of people that together make the school, we made the poster.

Graphic design Martine Eyzenga
Photography Marcel Kampman, assisted by Bart Hoekstra, colour correction Maurice Mikkers.
Copy Theo van der Vlugt
Design readmore

Making the Stad&Esch open day campaign

Because it is not yet finished, a sneak preview of a work in progress. Currently in the making, the new open day campaign for the school. A simple idea, namely that a school is a lot of people that together make the school, we’re making the poster. We cut out all letters in different sizes readmore

Molen zoekt bestemming!

Het cultureel erfgoed in Zuid-Holland levert een bijdrage aan de ruimtelijke kwaliteit van de provincie. Met de themajaren brengen Zuid-Holland de bijzondere waarde van de cultuurhistorische complexen in Zuid-Holland onder de aandacht. Op deze manier wil de readmore

Start conversations

Sometimes learning occasions are so close by you don’t even see them. I sit in trains a lot. Because I live far away from where the questions I work on are asked. And I like trains, have been writing and telling about that frequently. I like readmore

Get to know Stad&Esch

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 readmore

Flexwork

Flexwork is a new idea on how to work together. Not flex working as in knowmadding around, but a way of using people for what they can do best in their talent. Imagine you get an assignment. That assignment has a bundle of restrictions — a fixed readmore

Pay it forward

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 readmore

Internshops

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 readmore

Stad&Esch acceleration session Symbolism

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will readmore

Do Disclose Agreement®

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 readmore

VAS — Value added to Schools

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 readmore

TEDxDelft

Yesterday I had the opportunity to do a talk at TEDxDelft, a first in Delft, at the TU Delft. It was a highly electric day, from orbiting weather balloons to astronauts to brilliant books, from fast cars to a high tech opera preview. In my 12 minutes (+8 seconds, oops) I shared 9 readmore

John Moravec on education for Stad&Esch

John Moravec joint me at TEDxDelft as a guest since he was in the Netherlands. And that was nice, had some great talks about a lot and we shared a lot of insights. Inbetween the inspiring talks we did a small interview, readmore

Stad&Esch acceleration session Education

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will readmore

Presenting Stad&Esch

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. That also means that we invited former students and students to have them readmore

Once you’ll Pop!

Collaborating with Thomas Jacobs on a smart new web service that enables you to get the most out of your questions. We’ve named it Pop a Question. And invited the brilliant Stang to help us bring this visually to life. You still have to readmore

Stad&Esch acceleration session Culture

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will readmore

Drawings at PICNIC Festival 2011

Symen Veenstra, better known as enkeling was at the PICNIC Festival 2011. While listening to the talks he drew some attendees in the ‘PICNIC passport’, beautifully printed by Zwaan printmedia by the way. On day 3 he drew speaker Mr. Heath Bunting and some weird cityscapes. Cool stuff, this is what the passport readmore

Themaweek ‘De toekomst van de stad’ op Holland Doc 24

Hoe moeten we ons de steden van de toekomst voorstellen? Naar aanleiding van PICNIC Festival 2011 (14 tot en met 16 september in Amsterdam), een festival dat zich richt op innovatie, creatieve industrie en technologie en dit jaar als readmore

Stad&Esch session management team

The ambitions for Stad & Esch are high. The mission is to prepare pupils optimally for the challenges the 21st century offers them, knowing that this century is already well on its way, and successful people require more than just a diploma. This will be a future in which technological, social and demographic developments will readmore