Creating magic play with refugees

UNITE – In Utrecht around christmas a party was organised to make citizens of Utrecht connect with refugees from Syria, while waiting for their next situation. What other then play can be done? So I was asked to create a play station. I brought as many games and toys along as I could find, create […]
Create & Play your Identity – workshop ID play

Some people do not have an elevator pitch prepared, to tell the most important (business) message to a person in a very limited time. It is interesting to develop one, but this very often lacks spontaneity and authenticity. An many occassions people are in a different context with a different background and want to find […]
Workshop Gamedesign

I was invited to give a workshop at the Major Game Design and Development at Hanze Hogeschool in Groningen. 16 international students working together in teams to develop serious games for children in Africa, Butterfly works is involved as stakeholder (they developed and implemented a water awarnes game GetH2o in several countries in Africa). The […]
Retro game design workshop

The Media Instituut ‘Beeld & Geluid’ hosted a Retrogames festival, and we were invited to do a Retro Game Design Workshop to a class of children at the age of 12 years old, including teachers and parents to co-create games. They team-played pacman with makey-makey, learned about game design, experimented with gamemaker and programming games, created props and […]
Workshop “Dissecting a classic game” at Summerschool UU2014

More info on the Summerschool: Gamesandplay Description of the workshop: “A hands-on workshop with post-its and markers for all participants to participate on how to taste and ‘cook’ a game. In this workshop, we will use a model to dissect an old known game such as Pacman and learn what are (the) game elements and […]
Working the magic game circle…

My workshop at the Technical University Eindhoven, a small group, limited timing, but we made it (MGC) work, thanks to the participants! See the results here>>
Poetry in public transport…

I was mentioned in the newspaper for the Dutch Design Week this week…. In 1997 I graduated at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, my project was “Poetry in public transport”.I made several projects, but mainly an animation to give more of an impression (animation then was still very new by the way! ; )
MagiGameCircle Workshop at HH Groningen

At the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen is a 6 month program: ‘Game on‘ for international students to work in applied game development. While working on a HIV awareness game for Kenya, they are inspired by workshops by guest teachers, I was so lucky to do one workshop on the magic game circle as a tool to […]
1 trophy, 2 dagen, 5 games, 6 teams, 30 spelers De Internal Audit Trophy Games!

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Workshop color & design Nairobi

As a volunteer at Nairobits I co-developed educational courses for the youth from Nairobi to become Web designers. In 2002 I went to Nairobi several weeks and learned amazingly much about different ways of learning an teaching. I brought many books and materials to lecture about design and for instance specific on the use of colours.