GoNano Best practices

We’ve been exploring best practices in co-creation over the last few months as input to the overall GoNano process design. In the brief video portraits below, the people behind five noteworthy initiatives (listed in no particular order of importance) explain what the project was about, what the main results were, and what recommendations may be derived from it for organising co-creation. The video interviews complement a broader survey of best practices by way of a Lees verder

… an den Grenzen des Nichts

Performance Scholß Homburg Germany. September 2nd, 2018 The circle is the first, perfect shape. The equidistant arrangement of the outer points from the center, defining and ideal, are impossible to achieve by human hand. The space speaks of potential – the tension between what is achieved and what could be achieved. From the circle, we derive ideals and focus, both the halo of saints and the cross-haired target in gun sights.

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For over 20 years Ellis Bartholomeus has been developing interactive and playful products. Through her work, she learned about designing motivational and persuasive games, and have been doing research and taught people one-on-one, in classes and through lectures about how to design play for impact. Now Ellis wishes to scale that message and allow it to find its audience. She hopes to reach people who are trying to share their message and teach them how Lees verder

Edo Sanpu 2020

AN ARTISTS DIALOGUE ABOUT IMAGING — ONESELF AND THE OTHER — IN JAPAN AND THE NETHERLANDS FOUR PROJECTS Edo Sanpu 2020 consists of four art projects, inspired by four distinctive aspects of the relationship between the Netherlands and Japan (past and present). In particular: trade & transport, food & table manners, language & game and knowledge & science. All four projects will be exexuted and exhibited both in Japan and in the Netherlands. FOUR ARTISTS Lees verder

Watching and being watched

Watching and being watched – Performance Itoshima Japan

As a result of our stay at Studio Kura, we presented the performance Watching and being watched on June 24 (Sat) and 25 (Sun) 2017. Hannie van den Bergh and Jan van den Berg are artists from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They combine their qualities as visual artist/designer and storyteller/film director to work on performances in the Netherlands and abroad. During the last 15 years, they are researching the long-lasting Japanese – Dutch relationship, and the mutual Lees verder

Kumamoto origami

Origami and science – collaboration with Sojo University in Kumamoto

What can be the role of arts and design in this era of big changes in both society and science? How can we use traditional techniques to develop state of the art scientific research and bottom up initiatives? Senri Nojima, artist and professor at the Sojo  University in Kumamoto, invited Hannie van den Bergh from Studio HB to talk about her working method and give the students of the  University the opportunity to discuss about a broader Lees verder

Hokkaido travelogue

To the end of the world – Travelogue Hokkaido

During our research on the Dutch – Japanese relationship between 1609 – 1868 we came across a travelogue of Cornelis Jansz. Coen, first mate on the VOC–vessel Castricum. A report about a unique voyage of discovery to the islands currently known as Hokkaido, Sakhalin and Kuril. An expedition that was led by the Dutch cartographer and explorer captain Maarten Gerritsz. Vries, also referred to as De Vries (1589 – 1647). Intrigued and inspired by the Lees verder