This morning we where exploring how to celebrate success and mapped some of the positive and negative effects success can have. The session was guided by Tsi-La Piran who just arrived back from Israel and after some theory we got … Continue reading
./EDITORIAL NOTE: Open Education within Knowmads is not limited to ‘publishing lectures & speeches’ online. Other parts certainly work: We usually welcome guests at the WTF-Lectures & Floris published a first free lecture under a creative commons license. Maybe the … Continue reading
There has been another Knowmads crowd-funding initiative out there for a while: Thomas and Jorinde set up the website and I made the following trailer for them: All the student funding initiatives come together at http://www.fundaknowmad.nl where you can donate … Continue reading
He wants to ‘get gone’. Really. But read yourself about a Knowmads applicant, that has a nice offer & needs your help: http://www.wix.com/joseflloyd/getjoegone
Charley Davies gave a three day workshop on money just before the holidays – Marianne wrote a post on it: ‘To Hell With Money‘. During his stay in Amsterdam, he also got invited to speak at Stand Up Inspiration 24. … Continue reading
I love the excuse ‘not enough time’, and I also know that I probably should just ‘take the time’ whenever using this excuse. However, having ‘not enough time’ to wrap Christmas presents for my family forced me to come up … Continue reading
From the holy-days. Via my dear friend Michael.
There is a small (Dutch) article in the latest Newsletter of the Iona Stichting, one of the partners of Knowmads. Click on the picture to enlarge: You can download all their newsletters here (Dutch).
From March until December the Knowmads worked on an assignment for Royal Haskoning SMC. It was the first assignment we could work on. It connected to the theme of social innovation and especially sustainability. Working in a co-creative way we … Continue reading
A couple days ago Knowmads send out the latest Newsletter. As usual, I share it also here on the blog a little after for those who did not sign up yet or skipped the mail. Knowmads Open Day, fundraising for … Continue reading
Some of the pictures form the TEDx Amsterdam Live-Simulcast at Knowmads last week! For all the pictures see the Flickr Gallery: [flickr album=72157625509820086 num=6 size=Medium] Thank you for taking the pictures Betül and Chantal!
Today people looked at us as if we where alien. Me and Oscar did choose to meet in one of these really busy coffees at Leidseplein in Amsterdam, fully equipped with sketchbooks, laptops, mobilephones and an Ipad. The material was … Continue reading
Starring Knowmads ambassador Kwela Sabine Hermanns… Fail Safe from KS12 on Vimeo. How secure must we be to take risks? Does anonymity play a big role in how you behave online? What is the difference between losing and failing? “Fail … Continue reading
We are very grateful for being mentioned in the add on by ODE-Magazine in the NRC Handelsblad last week! (to view a bigger image, click on the picture. Sometimes ‘right-click – view image’ is needed)