I have been planning to write a blog about the lessons I learned from my mother’s stories for a while. Now, with Europe gradually loosening the strictest of the COVID-19 lockdown measures, the time seemed right. The ultimate push to start writing came from a column in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard by Ive Marx,…
Every good project starts with an idea. Whether it is a new design, piece of art, product, service or a new business. From hardcore start-up-entrepreneurs, I have repeatedly heard slogans like: “Ideas are for free and can be found on the internet.” And, while I – and probably a lot of people from the cultural…
From enforcing ownership to managing trust Think of the time and effort companies put into protecting their knowledge, products and services. Patents, intellectual property (IP), contracts, legal teams, etc. Imagine what could happen if companies put as much effort into managing trust. I believe that managing trust can get you just as far as –…
According to Nesta, companies that combine art and science skills in their workforce show 8% higher sales growth than science-only firms and are 2% more likely to bring radical innovations to market. While these hard numbers show the benefits of collisions, it is sometimes difficult to think beyond the abstract numbers. What really makes a successful…
Are you also someone who prefers to wait for the movie to come out rather than struggle through a few hundred pages of literature? Well, I am. Nevertheless, I do occasionally find myself tempted to read an interesting publication that crosses my path. Usually, because it has been recommended to me by someone who has…
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In this blog, I propose that we can learn from Biochemistry when mapping actors and interactions in a smart-society context. A smart society is a complex organisation with many different players all interacting with each other in different ways and at different times. Sometimes these interactions are small and sometimes they are large. This made…
When creative technology meets creative design, great things happen. But if you are in the tech world, the realms of art & design can seem so far away from everything you know. How can you find the right people in that creative labyrinth to help you give life to your ideas? Several years ago, I…