Knowmads

history

Some information about what preceded Knowmads history

In September 2007 we started KaosPilots in Rotterdam, inspired by the school in Denmark. In this two years we did a lot.

We worked with Team 1 ( 17 members, 7 nationalities) on different projects for De Baak, Ordina, Red Bull, Claesens Erdmann and Rijkswaterstaat. During the year we visited Scandinavia, we went with a fire truck to make a survey on social innovation in Eastern Europe and went to the summit I-genius in Thailand.

Also we got Workshops from different (international ) professionals about Marketing, Project Design, Communications and Business Design.

In September 2008 Team 2 got in after an admision-workshop. The school doubled in size and became even more of a community. Team 2 went through the same program as Team 1 in the first year, Team 1 did a semester Process Design and worked for companies like Phillips, De Baak, Norske TV etc. In march 2009 Team 1 went to Israel/Plaestine for 3 months to work there . The stories and what we did there you can read in :

Some press about who Kaospilots were and what they did:

• March 2008 Article in ‘Krant van de Aarde’ After De Pers and BNR again a great article (in Dutch) in the Krant van de Aarde. Check it out here.
• March 2008 Article in ‘De Pers’ On Monday March 3rd there was a wonderful article about KaosPilots in the free newspaper ‘De Pers’: ‘Directeur van je eigen ideaal’ – which doesn’t need a translation really, does it? ;-). Check it out here (in Dutch)
• Jan 2008 Article in Slow Management Magazine The cool new magazine Slow Management (www.slowmanagement.nl) wrote a compassionate story about our new school, with interviews with some of our students. Check it out here (in Dutch)