Generate Input for Your Business Model with Your Stakeholders (Case Study MixTup/Bloc23)
Strategic Engagement of Stakeholders around a business idea with the Amsterdam Hospitality Branch & Creative Sector [...]
Open Drawing Night 16-2-2012 Impressions
Last week we had our first Open Drawing Night this year again. It was great fun: Floris Koot facilitated an enthusiastic 30+ group into exploring, discovering, and challenging their own style of visual capture. Showing us multiple real-life examples and making it practical to experiment with refined exercises. Focused work indeed! Professional illustrators, experienced facilitators, students...
The World’s Cultural Lag: How it Affects the Legitimacy of Contemporary Governments
The world experiences a ‘cultural lag’: the collective thinking with regards to contemporary technical solutions lags behind. Do you feel it? Or see it? The Feelings Beyond With the role of governmental bodies contested worldwide, this quote from the eigthies proves useful today. Back then, the quote was directed against the development and use of...
Direct Participatory Democracy with the Upcoming European Citizen’s Initiative
A revolutionary project has launched this week: it is the European Citizen’s Initiative. It is an opportunity for direct participation by civil society from the 1st of April 2012. Since we are involved in redefining the governmental role in society with our inclusive methodologies, I got to notice this exciting project. Since I love the...