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PICNIC Innovation Mash Up event report

A True Mash Up of Industries, Companies, People, Ideas and Experiences
The PICNIC Innovation Mash Up lived up to its name: an active learning event focused on “how”: how businesses in other sectors can successfully apply top innovation and creativity processes used by Dutch and international creative industry professionals to launch new products and services, connect readmore

PICNIC all in one communication

Today we enjoyed a perfect PICNIC Innovation Mash Up. To dress up the event we decided to keep it simple and smart. The program was also the video’s, de leaders, and PICNIC Festival 2012 promotion. Since we printed it in just two colors, and we felt we wanted to have several versions, we decided to readmore

Learn from people who are smarter than you at PICNIC Innovation Mash Up

The PICNIC Innovation Mash Up will be a one-day, active learning event focused on “how”: how businesses in other sectors can successfully apply top innovation and creativity processes used by Dutch and international creative industry professionals to launch new products and services, connect with readmore

A HUMAN BEING SHOULD BE ABLE TO CHANGE A DIAPER, PLAN AN INVASION, BUTCHER A HOG, CONN A SHIP, DESIGN A BUILDING, WRITE A SONNET, BALANCE ACCOUNTS, BUILD A WALL, SET A BONE, COMFORT THE DYING, TAKE ORDERS, GIVE ORDERS, COOPERATE, ACT ALONE, SOLVE EQUATIONS, ANALYZE A NEW PROBLEM, PITCH MANURE, PROGRAM A COMPUTER, COOK A TASTY MEAL, FIGHT EFFICIENTLY, DIE GALLANTLY. SPECIALIZATION IS FOR INSECTS.

Robert A. Heinlein

Talking innovation in education at About Microsoft Innovation Center Belgium

On 18th June, the Microsoft Innovation Center is organizing its annual conference about Innovation. This year, the central topic is technology and education. I will give a talk there on reinventing education. Microsoft Innovation Center Belgium is a public-private partnership between the government( Walloon readmore

#4T2, innovating in education at Kennisnet

In the innovation program of Kennisnet, the relevance, feasibility and applicability of new ICT technologies for education is investigated. To do that, 42 people from the community have been brought together to together shape the innovation agenda of Kennisnet.

I’m happy that I am part readmore

Vechten met een verhaal en winnen

Een van mijn favoriete (niet omdat ik zijn boeken lees maar omdat Hans gewoon kont schopt) schrijvers en Vlaamse reus, Ivo Victoria, heeft een prachtig filmpje gemaakt van het gevecht om te komen tot zijn nieuwe boek. readmore

Heineken Ideas Brewery – 48 hours of Live Innovation

So what exactly happened when HEINEKEN asked industrial designer and pioneer of rapid prototyping Janne Kytannen to take on a 48-Hour Innovation Challenge?

Well, a lot of interesting ideas concerning reuse, recycling and new materials. Had the pleasure readmore

Susan Smit — Zoals jij bemint book trailer

Dutch writer Susan Smit wrote a new book Zoals jij bemint published by Lebowski. Susan featured in the video we did for Johan’s Why don’t we. She then asked if there would ever be an occasion to make a video, if we would be willing to do so. But readmore

Christian Long: Are we asking the right questions?

A nice short interview with Christian Long (@christianlong), educator, designer, school planner and futurist, talking about the questions that transcend technology, architecture, or resource decisions. He asks us what does it mean to think and learn in the future? Do we have something extraordinary readmore

THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY, NO PURE WAY OF DOING IT. THERE IS JUST DOING IT. WE LIVE IN A POST-AUTHENTIC WORLD. TODAY AUTHENTICITY IS A HOUSE OF MIRRORS. IT’S ALL JUST WHAT YOU ARE BRINGING WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN, ITS YOUR TEACHERS, YOUR INFLUENCES, YOUR PERSONAL HISTORY. AT THE END OF THE DAY IT’S THE POWER AND THE PURPOSE (…) THAT STILL MATTERS.

Bruce Springsteen

DON’T LEARN TO GET THE THINGS YOU WANT. LEARN TO WANT THE THINGS YOU GET.

From Simon Sinec’s friend Ken

KNOWING EVERYTHING TURNS OUT TO BE SLIGHTLY BORING.

Douglas Coupland

YOU CAN’T BUILD A REPUTATION ON WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO

Henry Ford

Looking forward to next Monday, when a delegation of Auchan is in Amsterdam to learn from PICNIC. Auchan is a major multinational retailer with a core business of hypermarkets and supermarkets with other operations in the banking, e-commerce and real estate sectors. Groupe Auchan is a part of the Mulliez family of brands that also readmore

In the past few months the participants of the Leaders for Economic Change Programme of Amsterdam Bright City have been learning more about economic change by reading articles, participating in trainings and attending lectures. Their greatest learning experience however lies within the numerous discussions and interactive sessions where they exchanged views on sustainable growth, economic readmore

WTF at Knowmads

Had fun doing a WTF at Knowmads today. Talking what’s in a world that is shifting towards why’s and purposes. Thanks!

Why Am See Hey! Finding your why on purpose

Yesterday we tried out something new. We in this case is me and Michael from ONLY. We did this at an event organized by Conclusion about Investing in the future. And that is not about using energy saving light bulbs. But about the world as a village where we all can sustain in readmore

Make Joseph Kony famous to arrest him

Watch. Act. Global social ass kicking.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

HOW TO HELP:
Visit: kony2012.com
Donate to readmore

THERE ARE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OUT THERE LEADING LIVES OF QUIET, SCREAMING DESPERATION, WHERE THEY WORK LONG, HARD HOURS AT JOBS THEY HATE TO ENABLE THEM TO BUY THINGS THEY DON’T NEED TO IMPRESS PEOPLE THEY DON’T LIKE.

Nigel Marsh

PressPausePlay, a documentary film

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities.

But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of readmore

Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert – video

This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the Three Little Pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper’s front page headline, readmore

The PICNIC Creative Business Club meeting on February 29th focused on “Customer engagement and the trust economy”

The latest PICNIC Creative Business Club event took place in one of our most posh venues yet: Amsterdam’s private Industrieele Groote Club.

Photo’s by Maurice Mikkers.

The topic of the evening was “Customer engagement and the trust economy” and the event featured three inspiring, yet very different presentations by speakers from Edelman, the Dutch readmore

Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world

A TEDTalk from the future as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scott.

What happened at table 7, should not stay at table 7.

The fun part of being a speaker at an event like LIFT is that you have a speakers dinner. Which means that you indeed dine with all the other speakers, that speaks for itself. What’s in a name. Last year, I had a wonderful conversation with Alexandre from Transplant. Will never readmore