Learning & Education Design
Embedded Learning
We believe true learning takes place in the complex context of place and societal relationships.
Education for societal renewal
Both a place of inquiry and development of Earth attuned eduction. The Learning Lab develops and teaches transdisciplinary, experiential, and entrepreneurial programs for societal development. Some programs are offered at the universities we partner with.
Designing & Facilitating Transformative Learning Spaces
We use collaborative, creative, and phenomenological methodologies to explore and design transformational learning environments. They integrate practice, theory, and capacity building for educators, students, practitioners and partners.
Social Innovation
Labs for change
We develop labs as vehicle for strategic organisational learning and innovation, or as facilitated environment for multi stakeholder social change initiatives. Social innovation is first and foremost a learning process. Labs provide the flexible structure and facilitation in which organisations, talent, and leadership learn and develop new capabilities to explore and realise impact. They produce social, economic, human, or intellectual capital.
Living Labs
Urban Living Labs create the conditions for non linear development, often accompanied by the introduction of technological, social, and economic interventions. They provide the possibility for participatory design and a collective learning proces. We develop Living Labs in collaboration with cities, foundations, organised citizens, companies, and universities.
Why Labs?
The Learning City
City Making
Citizens, governments, and companies are finding new ways to develop cities for sustainable futures together. We develop strategies and learning labs to enhance the city’s ability to learn.
School Design
School Design Labs facilitate the co-development of schools or programs with a regenerative role in their community. Starting from people and place, developing capacity in the community of partners.
What is new?
Leonardo Award for Learning
Founder of the Learning Lab, Thieu Besselink, receives European Leonardo Award for Corporate Learning, placing a particular emphasis on work at the intersection between business, art, communities and societal innovation in learning and knowing in today´s economy.
The jury speaks of:
“far-reaching pioneering work as an innovator, philosopher and adviser, who combines academic fundamental research with practical implementation in a rather diverse context. The variety of aspects you have focused your important work on are truly holistic in the spirit of Leonardo.”
