February 2021

Your final design project – “Is it your masterpiece project or a great building block in your life-career-journey?”

    Written by Marie Van den Bergh, researcher at Delft University of Technology A TU Delft project: Co-creating the graduation journey “How would you define your final design project as a Master student? Is it your masterpiece project or a great building block in your life-career-journey?” I graduated not that long ago, but during my journey, I would have answered the first. Now that I am finished, I say there will never be just one masterpiece in my life since there will always appear a new challenge where one wants to master in. It is about giving… Read More »Your final design project – “Is it your masterpiece project or a great building block in your life-career-journey?”

    The university as a flock of birds? — learning our way forward together to promote wellbeing

      Written by Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer, Associate Professor Design for Social Innovation at Delft University of Technology “The world is changing so fast that no one can be an expert in anything” (John Seely Brown) In 2017, John Seely Brown — former chief scientist and director of the Xerox PARC centre presented a fascinating keynote lecture at the Ingenuity conference about how ‘we live in amazing times’, times that are characterised by exponential change. He explains how ‘the world is changing so fast that no one can be an expert in anything’, and ‘every one of us… Read More »The university as a flock of birds? — learning our way forward together to promote wellbeing