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Weaving together?
In 1984 a Danisch NGO set up IWWA a weaving facility in Ifakara Tanzania. Since 2001 when the NGO stopped supporting the IWWA the continuity of the project was in danger. Due to lack of knowledge of...
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Follow the chain
Can you be a sustainable designer without being an sustainable entrepreneur? One of the main objectives during our trip is to meet with successful designers and entrepreneurs that managed to...
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the Pentagono Design team
When we left Indonesia our collaboration with the Masarang foundation continued even though we are not fisically there yet. On 28th of February, a group of students from the Delft University of...
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Are we designers, entrepreneurs or teachers?
As an entrepreneur, clients pay you to do what you do best. Which means that you will spend a lot of time doing the same thing over and over again. When you want to develop new skills, gain new...
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Define Design
In Lima we met Jasper Harlaar who was by that time, just finishing his apprenticeship at one of the oldest and most respected woodcarving workshops in Lima: Taller de Arte Colonial from the late Julio...
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Redefine Design
Our own design challenge has been focused on discovering more insights on the impact of design on poverty reduction. Which of these different definitions has the most impact on poverty reduction? In...
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The AMIADESIGNER Manifest
When we addressed this with designers, design teachers and design lovers during our 5 month trip the most common response was that, “although this might be the case: what should we as designers do...
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The process of human centered design versus other design processes
We have been working a lot with students from different universities and different educational programs during the last few months. Most of the time we worked with product design students. We expected...
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Using empathy and service design tools to re-design education
Design thinking is a new vogue word in Universities (of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. It seems to be used mainly to foster leadership and innovation among (honors) students that need to work in...
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The One Hour Design Challenge
Understanding the language, that we call Design or Design Thinking, is very important. The more fluent this language is spoken, the more you benefit from output the design process generates. We believe...
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