
here’s an interview I did with Rik Wuts and Andre Weenink as part of their Klatergoud project: 18 minutes Klatergoud #1 from Rik Wuts on Vimeo.

Based on one of the tracks at the DMI academic conference in Paris this April, the latest issue of the Design Management Review (which is a special issue on service design) ,and an earlier hunch on the relevance of BDI to service design and vice versa, I will share with you some of the insights [...]

There’s another nice summary of the DMI paris conference at molecular’s blog, by Brian Gillespie. Go see!

here is a nice survey for you all to take part in. It will sharpen your mind with regards to the role of design and designers in the future. The survey is initiated by AIGA (the american BNO) and Adobe. Results will be posted by june 2008 under the same link.

Here’s what prof. Dr. Jan Buijs wrote on the DMI conference. We spent the week with him, he’s a great guy and a veteran in all that concerns design, innovation, creativity and education. Summary Design Thinking DMI conferences Paris, April 2008 JB thoughts/ideas/concepts/…. after three days of Paris brain crunching. Both the academic conference on [...]

Both at the academic and the business DMI conference in Paris this week speakers were very keen on defining design thinking. From an academic point of view, this is quite understandable: epistemologically (wow!) there’s some very interesting stuff happening when a designer/creative puts his teeth in a problem. (See many articles by Roger Martin on [...]
I am in paris right now at the international DMI conference, writing this in my hotel room. I’ve been trying to find time to blog about it but somehow Eiffeltowers, finnish people, lunches, dinner parties and, er, the conference itself got in the way. So for now I will post the presentation I held at [...]
as promised in my previous novella, some mindbytes from the creative company conference on april 1st 2008 in Amsterdam: John Howkins: Creativity needs freedom. We dream @ 8-12 hertz, we analyse @ 16-25 Hertz. The challenge is to manage the switch. People in creative sectors are 2-3 times more educated than in other sectors: creativity [...]
For a good conference you need a good topic, a good line up of speakers, a good conference format, a good venue and a good audience. The creative company conference that was held on april 1st 2008 in het Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, organised by Rudolf van Wezel of Bis Publishers and Ravi Naidoo of the [...]
At the Design Management Institute‘s Academic Conference in Paris this april I will be presenting a paper on Brand Driven Innovation, co-authored by Christa van Gessel. It includes our latest insights gained from research and projects at Zilver. It builds on my 2005 dissertation, but goes much further in the specifics of BDI, including its [...]