RESEARCH
The Learning Lab is a Think-Tank for social change. Research at The Learning Lab is always grounded in real word interventions that aim not only to study, but also design and change the world. Our studies go out to leading transition learning, social ecology, the future of education, urban development, and collaborative system innovation.
Thieu Besselink: I believe that with the end of systemic security in our society you cannot understand the increasingly complex world unless you participate it its creation. The same is true for our individual lives.
LEARNING
As we believe the next generation and its organisations have to reinvent virtually every system in which we live, what and how do we need to learn both individually and collectively in order to realize that transition? Universities, schools, cities, and organizations rapidly need to invest in their learning capacities for transition. The Learning Lab researches, facilitates, and designs learning ecologies for this transition. Learning here, has of necessity become a form of creating.
Create Meaning through what you do by understanding why you are doing what you do.
Create Relationships that can foster collective intelligence and commitment across domains and differences.
Create Disruptively to unlearn what we are used to in order to see and build what is needed.
DESIGN
“People come to us with a question, or half a sentence, an itch. They want to do whatever it takes to evolve. They are determined to make a mark and be the difference, because they feel this time is asking something completely different of us.”
Making the things that we want to see in the world is what drives us, so we study and create sustainable futures by generating living and strategic examples with an impact. Our labs aim at the very transition of the system in which they take place. WIth a ‘hacker mentality’ we search for the single most elegant way to push a systems acupuncture points, creating space and movement for its transition.
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