Yes, you the guy with the black suit, white polo shirt, shiny shoes, yes you that holding the “Ipad” in your left hand the Swiss watch on your right hands. Yes-You brother, that study in the best university, try to … Continue reading
This post will be a short one. And a big one. At least for me – it comes from the heart. I carried the idea with me that if I love myself less I can love others more. I did … Continue reading
Learning at Knowmads is different from learning in the “normal” educational system. Knowmads is part of a new generation of schools who all stand for the philosophy of “Invisible Learning”. Invisible learning being the kind of learning that cannot be … Continue reading
Often I´m asked what I do at Knowmads. And always, the answer is some version of “a lot.” Because we do a lot of things. One of them is doing real-life assignments, for real companies and real people. With my fellow … Continue reading
I live in the information age. New diseases I might suffer from in the near future are: Information-overload (Info expletus); Search engine addiction (Quaero apparatus proclivitas); Social network mania (Simol testamentum cupidine incensus) Emailitus (Electricitatis litteras morbi) I am afraid … 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
All of us have dreams and ambitions. We, Knowmads, have them too. In February we will be finished with our one year education. But we do not want to stop yet. Together we want to continue and take it a … Continue reading
For the project Sustainability within multinationals that we do in co-creation with our partner Royal HasKoning SMC we send out a survey. The goal is to find out how young professionals in multinationals give meaning to sustainability and how this … Continue reading
A while ago Godert van Hardenbroek from ‘Formula Zero’ was at Knowmads to give a two day seminar about sustainability and so on… Remember? Oscar mentioned it in his post about sexifying sustainability. Anyway, Godert showed some extracts of the … Continue reading
The Playground At Hembrugstraat 156 in Amsterdam, you can find the Horizon Center. A community center that hosts all kind of activities, merging or melting several communities, cultures, people, ages, educations and businesses. Knowmads Business School is located in the … Continue reading
FOKKE WIJNSTRA from FINEXT spend three mornings with us in the last weeks to talk about the integration of the new students Roy and Ditte and also do some work regarding our team values. Today there was also some time … Continue reading
This afternoon Roel van den Berg was at Knowmads to give a inspiring talk on his three month trip with his best friend through Iran – Turkmenistan – Uzbekistan – Kyrgyzstan and China earlier this year. Roel has a company … Continue reading
Remember the video on Collaborative Consumption I posted earlier this week? Well that was the nice part of the story. The reason why it is so interesting lies in the following presentation: The Story of Stuff. Quite over the web … Continue reading
“Kennisland (Knowledgeland) contributes to a smarter Dutch society. We believe that the best guarantee for future prosperity and welfare, now and in the future, is to strengthen our knowledge society. We help to realise this national goal by developing and … Continue reading
“Deep Democracy is supposed to involve openness to other individuals, groups and diverse. It includes feelings, dreams, body symptoms, altered states of consciousness, synchronicities, and an awareness of signals, roles, and the structural dynamics of the interactions between the parties … Continue reading