Tag Archives: design

Symposium Creative Spaces

‘How can physical spaces positively influence group creativity’. Recently I visited the third day of this symposium on Creative Spaces Design, at Utrecht University of Applied Science. “Aim of the 3 days: Sharing knowledge and experiences about creative spaces and creating new insights in the relation between space and creativity.… »

Posted on 05/07/2010 by Anouk Randag Also tagged brainstorm, conference, creative spaces, innovation, space, studio, utrecht |

Service Design Thinks #2: Exploring the O-Gap

12 mei vond de 2e editie van de Service Design Thinks plaats in Amsterdam.

Exploring the O-Gap.

De O in O-Gap staat voor Organisation. ‘Hoe zorg je ervoor dat je prachtige plan niet struikelt bij de uitvoering in de organisatie.’ 2 presentaties, afgewisseld met opbouwende discussies. De sprekers zoomden… »

Posted on 18/05/2010 by Anouk Randag Also tagged #2, amsterdam, business, meeting, netwerk, o-gap, organisation, presentation, service, servicedesign, thinks |

Service design, a new design discipline.

For my talk at crowdsourced innovation event Community of Talents. In a room full of professionals in the area of service innovation, I had the privilege of closing the day with a talk on the evolution of design (as a verb). I finally translated my presentation in Enlish. Here it… »

Posted on 03/09/2009 by Marcel Zwiers Also tagged Community of Talents, conference, Design Thinking, dienstinnovatie, event, presentatie, presentation, symposium |

The essence and purpose of design

The waag society reports on the presentation by Henk Oosterling for the Premselal institute. Henk tells the story a lot of (service) designers have been telling for quite some time now. Design has the power to transform our society. We can’t emphasize and repeat it often enough (sorry for the… »

Posted on 29/04/2009 by Marc Fonteijn Also tagged henk oosterling, premsela, waag |

Wat is design?

Gistermiddag heb ik een gastcollege gegeven op de Hogeschool Utrecht, Product Design en Engineering. Je zou veronderstellen dat de vraag; Wat is design? door iedereen beantwoord zou kunnen worden. Van de 40 studenten was er één student met één antwoord. ‘Design is een ontworpen product. Een design lamp, of design… »

Posted on 12/03/2009 by Marcel Zwiers Also tagged designcouncil, education, hogeschool utrecht, HU |