I am very proud that Niels van Huizen got awarded Cum Laude 🥳 for his Phd thesis “Design Your Life – Bringing the Autistic Lifeworld to Supportive Technology Design” on 11/12/24. What an achievement! And well deserved. More on Niels’ …
This year our Design your Life project was presented at the Dutch Design Week. A nice outcome in the final year of Niels van Huizen‘s Phd project. Niels presented the project and the prototypes that were fabricated by the Dream …
I was interviewed for the DesignLab Brew podcast! “hosts Gemma Ciabattoni and Chiara Poli Reghenzi delve into the fascinating world of industrial design, theories of embodiment and the intersection between physical and digital design, and particularly the development of empowering …
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I was interviewed for the Beyond Human Relations podcast. I talk about teaching in the master course Embodied Interaction and on our research into designing assistive products for and with autistic people, how to add meaning to people’s lives, as …
The ‘hole’ man in Brazil that just died after having lived for 26 years alone in the jungle made me think. Another part of the thinking came from listening to the latest episode of #TeamHuman by Doug Rushkoff and guest …
Designers, if you ever write in academic theses or articles about your work, please write in the first person about your design process. You are the designer. Individual human beings design, not abstract processes. Individual human designers, with their particular …
Geachte redactie, Frans Leijnse pleit voor meer universiteiten. Ik ben daar voor, als het betekent: meer plekken waar jonge mensen fysiek bij elkaar kunnen komen om in kleine groepen, samen met voor hen inspirerende voorbeeldfiguren meer te leren over dat …
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Ik word bijna elke dag wakker met een ingezonden brief in mijn hoofd. Soms heb ik die ook daadwerkelijk geschreven en opgestuurd. Maar ik ben er achtergekomen dat het eigenlijk meer de ratels zijn in mijn drukke hoofd die even …
I have been reading this very interesting post on the relation between anarchism and cybernetics. I got sent the article through the Radical AI network. It took me back to my undergraduate years when I was very interested in cybernetics …