AMSTERDAM URBAN INNOVATIONMasterclass Innovation Leadership The program selected innovation leaders from all departments of the City of Amsterdam, forming a learning and impact community to approach complex societal issues of the city. Every half a year a new cohort joined the community. They worked with citizens, academics, decision makers, social entrepreneurs, and artists to understand…
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…
Townmaking is a collaborative initiative for integral, participatory urban development, knowledge creation, and urban digitisation. A city’s challenges lie in the complexity and interrelatedness of its life, problems, and aspirations. Everyone wants a sustainable and healthy society that promotes wellbeing, but together we produce outcomes that nobody wants. Systems and services that treat humans as…
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…
The Learning Lab developed a two year high potential program with Adviso for AXA tech world wide to enable the next generation to lead the company’s transformation. Central to the program is the connection the current and the next generation of top leadership around strategic breakthrough issues and innovation. The program develops leadership and social innovation capacity…
From May 10 – 12 2016, changemakers from different cities around the world visited IABR, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and shared experiences and insights into the ‘how’ of urban transformation. Here you will find some impressions, lessons learned and next steps. Organization In order to gain more insight into the how of urban transformation…
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…
HOW TO HACK THE MATRIX? Almost the entire European Personal Care team of Unilever came over to the Learning Lab at our Amsterdam creative campus for an experimental Empowerment lab. The main question? How might we enable each other and ourselves to make a difference? With Paul Polman calling for Unilever to make a positive and sustainable…
The Young Innovators program is a University wide, interdisciplinary honours program for master students, aimed at social innovation and leadership. The program is build up around key societal challenges that students, the respective stakeholders involved, and academic experts attempt to understand and bring further with innovative interventions and collaborations. With this program we tried to redefine the…
A the public sphere has been under heavy dispute lately, with the Gezi movement as one of its spin offs, the Institute of Creative Minds Istanbul and the Young Innovators joined forces at Mediamatic to answer the question: How do we create a new kind of self-governing society? During the opening of ‘A Day in the…
