Program for Natural Community Farming Together with Herenboeren en Boeren in het Bos we develop the program for Natural Community Farming. We believe that a third of Dutch agricultural lands should be farmed in a nature inclusive way and should be owned and supported by local communities. Farming in this manner is hard, and requires a…
Favela Painting Academy is a laboratory for social design, fueld by the internationally acclaimed practice and experience of Favela Painting community art and place making projects. The Academy enables local communities to become self-reliant in developing sustainable social art projects that increase social inclusion, create perspectives for youth, and strengthen urban development. The Academy researches…
Makoko Floating School is a prototype floating structure, built for the historic water community of Makoko, located on the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. As a pilot project, it has taken an innovative approach to address the community’s social and physical needs in view of the impact of climate change and a rapidly…
Co-design, or participatory design is a creative and social proces of by which a community develops its own visions, strategies, and environments so as to make a better fit between the practical, social and cultural needs of the users and the design. In particular it is the ownership that a community can develop though this proces…
An expedition Lab to define the educational vision for Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs (OMO), an organisation of some 35 secondary schools. OMO founded its first schools 100 years ago and have since then opened schools for all types of education. The expedition took the leadership of about a hundred schools to explore the “why” of its education. We developed…
De Nederlandse School (the Dutch School) offers an alternative teacher training aimed at pioneers in education and the development of teachers and schools. The participants are schools and teacher teams instead of individual teachers, so as to assure a sustainable embedding of innovation. Next to a strong focus on personal development dNS programs work on the…
One Day Dream School
Over the past two centuries we have seen the rise of schools and universities that answered to the demands and aspirations of the industrial age, and with great success. We are past that now and new questions inform our learning. We believe that schools will no longer hold the same form and significance in the…
