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Kinder Co-op
Vind jij dat dingen anders zouden kunnen in de wereld? Vraag je je af waarom kinderen niet meer inspraak hebben? Heb je zelf ideeën hoe dingen anders kunnen? Beter? Geef je dan op voor de Kinder Co-op. We gaan een creatieve stalletje ontwerpen en bouwen voor op de markt. Hoe dat eruit ziet en werkt…
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Weer kind zijn?
Oproep, 16 maart, 10 uur, Marsepeintje, Amsterdam In het kader van mijn Master Design Research onderzoek ik de verschillen tussen kind zijn en volwassen zijn. Daarom zoek ik 8 tot 10 mensen die kind willen zijn voor anderhalf uur in een echte crêche. Wil je mee doen, geef je hier onder op, of stuur een…
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‘Designing climate education programs for children and their imaginations in a time of climate crisis’
On the occasion of Professor Tilde Bekker‘s Inaugural Lecture at the Eindhoven Technical University, on June the 10th, 2022, there was a public symposium with talks by myself, Professor Helle Skovbjerg and Rob Tieben under the banner: ‘Design for playfulness and learning – Combining theory and practice’ This is a summary of that talk. This…
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Include more children speakers at (online) conferences. Some ‘how to’s’ on making it work and keeping it authentic.
Children’s voices are largely missing from debates and conferences, even when they themselves are the subject matter. How can we ensure that more children get to contribute and be heard? In this post I share lessons learned at Design-athon on how we have included children as speakers in a variety of offline, online and international…
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Kosovo, Creating the Future.
Dafina Morina is working on a prototype which would help blind people to have better access to the Museum of Kosovo, where she works as part of the Designathon Works training in Pristina Kosovo. Dafina is one of a team of curators at the museum in Pristina where they share the cultural artefacts and contribute…
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Global Children’s Designathon
9.32AM CET In the superbly light and spacious main hall of Freedomlab, we gather around a standing table covered in brown butcher paper. The doors are held open by a heavy piece of rail: the Amsterdam welcome of the Global Children’s Designathon has started. Emer Beamer, initiator of today’s gathering, is briefing her team of…
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A selection of children’s ingenuity for Inspiration
Oftentimes adults seek to inspire children, especially in educational settings, to learn, to discover, to know what we already know and would like children to know too. We often forget however, just how inspired and inspiring children already are. This post is then a thinly veiled propaganda piece, a note to remind adults, to wonder,…