Comments for vandeWerk - The Creative Business Blog http://vandewerk.nl Bastiaan van de Werk shares ideas and insights about business strategy, marketing, branding, creative thinking and innovation that help you grow and transform your business or organization. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Pick the Right Design by bastiaan http://vandewerk.nl/picking-the-right-design/#comment-3062 bastiaan Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:31:08 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=1268#comment-3062 "What If London’s Geography Were As Distorted As Its Tube Map?" http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669080/what-if-londons-geography-were-as-distorted-as-its-tube-map “What If London’s Geography Were As Distorted As Its Tube Map?”

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669080/what-if-londons-geography-were-as-distorted-as-its-tube-map

]]> Comment on Seeing What’s Not There by bastiaan http://vandewerk.nl/seeing-whats-not-there/#comment-3060 bastiaan Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:48:34 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=579#comment-3060 I just read a great little blog post by Alicia Arnold http://alicia-arnold.com/2011/12/13/do-you-see-what-i-see/ recommended! I just read a great little blog post by Alicia Arnold

http://alicia-arnold.com/2011/12/13/do-you-see-what-i-see/

recommended!

]]> Comment on Enter the Multiversity by Bastiaan http://vandewerk.nl/multiversity/#comment-2964 Bastiaan Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:36:07 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=2264#comment-2964 Hi Yvette, thanks for your great input and sharing some of your thoughts. I took me some time to get back to you: my apologies. "One shift that seems the move away from segmentation (by age for example) towards more inclusive models that help make sense of open systems." I couldn't agree more. Anybody with kids will agree that in some situation kids of various age-groups mingle and cooperate very well - or kids who do not even speak the same language for that matter. A non scientific observation. My own kids grow up in a somewhat multicultural (or at least multi-lingual environment); they have Indonesian cousins who speak some broken English at best, have perhaps a dozen 'funny' Dutch words under their belt....just watching them interact with each other: playing games, teaching each other songs, making drawings etc. It's amazing how well they communicate - and improve their language skills in a matter of days. Kids are amazing learnings as well as teachers. This is particularly true when kids share a passion and a set of complementary talents and skills. Such cross cultural exchanges could be facilitated by schools - I know we have a British an American, a Japanese school nearby and tons of schools with the children of immigrants. I would take some courage and I'm not sure such an approach would work with all school subjects: but art classes, music classes or gymnastics would probably be good starting points. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me again! Talk to you soon. Hi Yvette, thanks for your great input and sharing some of your thoughts.

I took me some time to get back to you: my apologies.

“One shift that seems the move away from segmentation (by age for example) towards more inclusive models that help make sense of open systems.”

I couldn’t agree more. Anybody with kids will agree that in some situation kids of various age-groups mingle and cooperate very well – or kids who do not even speak the same language for that matter.

A non scientific observation. My own kids grow up in a somewhat multicultural (or at least multi-lingual environment); they have Indonesian cousins who speak some broken English at best, have perhaps a dozen ‘funny’ Dutch words under their belt….just watching them interact with each other: playing games, teaching each other songs, making drawings etc. It’s amazing how well they communicate – and improve their language skills in a matter of days.

Kids are amazing learnings as well as teachers.

This is particularly true when kids share a passion and a set of complementary talents and skills.

Such cross cultural exchanges could be facilitated by schools – I know we have a British an American, a Japanese school nearby and tons of schools with the children of immigrants. I would take some courage and I’m not sure such an approach would work with all school subjects: but art classes, music classes or gymnastics would probably be good starting points.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me again!
Talk to you soon.

]]> Comment on Enter the Multiversity by Yvette http://vandewerk.nl/multiversity/#comment-2961 Yvette Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:56:50 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=2264#comment-2961 Hi Bastiaan, I really appreciated this post and agree with you! I have been looking at a similar concept from the perspective of new socio-technical infrastructure (concepts and development). Actually moving in the direction you propose does require that this new thinking be carried over into tech development as part community change management. One shift that seems the move away from segmentation (by age for example) towards more inclusive models that help make sense of open systems - I think this suggest that areas like economic or community development are integral to identifying how to solve the educational challenge - like how to implement the shift or how to cover the cost of the change(s). I have been looking at how this could emerge as part of an inquiry process - I'd love your thoughts and feedback. I've sent you a "tweet" invitation to connect on Linkedin and would also like to share this link with you http://openrfp.net/node/547 and http://www.ideaconnection.com/solutions/innovative/1653-New-approaches-to-infrastructure-help-reframe-economi.html ....just in case you are moved to have a conversation along these lines. Best always! Hi Bastiaan,
I really appreciated this post and agree with you! I have been looking at a similar concept from the perspective of new socio-technical infrastructure (concepts and development). Actually moving in the direction you propose does require that this new thinking be carried over into tech development as part community change management. One shift that seems the move away from segmentation (by age for example) towards more inclusive models that help make sense of open systems – I think this suggest that areas like economic or community development are integral to identifying how to solve the educational challenge – like how to implement the shift or how to cover the cost of the change(s).

I have been looking at how this could emerge as part of an inquiry process – I’d love your thoughts and feedback. I’ve sent you a “tweet” invitation to connect on Linkedin and would also like to share this link with you http://openrfp.net/node/547 and http://www.ideaconnection.com/solutions/innovative/1653-New-approaches-to-infrastructure-help-reframe-economi.html ….just in case you are moved to have a conversation along these lines.

Best always!

]]> Comment on Stuck like a Broken Record by Bastiaan http://vandewerk.nl/stuck-like-a-broken-record/#comment-2956 Bastiaan Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:37:36 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=636#comment-2956 Interesting thoughts from HBR: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/lessons_from_the_industry_form.html Interesting thoughts from HBR:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/lessons_from_the_industry_form.html

]]> Comment on Closing a Chapter? by Bastiaan http://vandewerk.nl/closing-a-chapter/#comment-2940 Bastiaan Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:25:37 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=1900#comment-2940 Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk&feature=youtu.be This Toddlers seems to think that print media are basically iPads that don't work. :) Case in point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk&feature=youtu.be

This Toddlers seems to think that print media are basically iPads that don’t work. :)

]]> Comment on Cool New Jobs in the Social Economy by Bastiaan http://vandewerk.nl/jobs-social-economy/#comment-2756 Bastiaan Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:22:16 +0000 http://vandewerk.nl/?p=2135#comment-2756 Technically that would not really be a job: rather an agent or avatar of you or something along those lines. Technically that would not really be a job: rather an agent or avatar of you or something along those lines.

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