It is great when you come into a visual work space and already see someone there! Sanne Koopmans has been an enthusiast of the Mobile drawing laboratory from the start and is now a regular […]
VISUAL EVENT COMPASS
Getting your thinking out on paper is a great way to focus in on your understanding of any subject. But what to do when the thinking is out on the table? When the fish is […]
Open WORK SPACE city hall
Dagje flexwerken op t stadhuis van den haag. Dynamische balans in het Westduinpark. – with Tom, Joanne, Klaas & Ellen at Stadhuis. The best space is shared space! View on Path
Tijd voor Tekenen!
Tijd voor tekenen… De nieuwe leergang die voortkomt uit het interne t-mobile experiment (het mobiele teken laboratorium) begint vorm te krijgen. Binnenkort ronden we af en wordt dit de basis voor hoe Vy bijdraagt aan […]
Above and below the line thinking
This is where my story becomes a tool with clients! Great work today at de Nije Veste with @carlverheijen View on Path
Thought#0345
What if… You could float through your failures and accomplishments to see the patterns of your future? What would that look like and how would it impact on the way we make decisions? When everybody […]
Cochlear what?
a great group of people in Innsbruck, Austria invited the Event Model Generation team to come and help with the visual articulation of an audiology event that will take place in November of 2015. At […]
VISUAL WORK SPACE
2015 was a fresh start for me. After a 6 months personal recalibration following my exit from JAM visual thinking, I had to leave my temporary Shop in Wassenaar and needed a place to work. Like many […]
A beautiful day at the TU
On the 10th of Febuary JAM organised the now fifth edition of the “Generic & Professional Skill”-communication module at the Delft University of Technology. The day was impeccably organised by Jefta Bade and Freya Ruis of […]
DRAWING OUT your EVENT
Since the beginning of last year I have had the privilege to be a part of the development of the EVENT CANVAS. You might say the resemblance with the Business Model Canvas is there in […]
This is Fresh+!
How do you get competitors to get over sectoral differences and create a goal that is so big that it can only be realised by working together??? This is one of the daily tasks put to Marieke Kodde […]
het TEKEN LABORATORIUM @ T-Mobile
From February till April Vy will be exercising a “friendly VISUAL takeover” at the Digital Services Department of T-Mobile Holland. In January I interviewed a cross section of the workforce which gave me some idea […]
the Mobile Drawing LABORATORY
As a part of the “Drawing out Change” Initiative, Vy is organising an experiment in collaboration with T-mobile. The idea is to create an open space for visual change making WITHIN a company department. By […]
How to plan a park…
A a native of the city of The Hague I am all to familiar with the Westduin Park. It is the stretch of dune that reaches from Kijkduin to Scheveningen. Quite an extensive area. As […]
Daring Innovation
Because of my involvement in the BAAK STRATEGIC PROGRAM and a history involving Rutger Slump in on stage drawing of scenarios in improvising theater, I was lucky enough to reconnect with Rutger at the moment […]
The Drawing Laboratorium
Any change is good… its just a matter of how YOU look at it…When the perspective is right then you can joke about anything. I think George Carlin (comedian) said something along these lines when he […]
WE DREW BIG…;)
#BIGdraw Wassenaer w/ #EMGcanvas at @ThinkDrawShare denkstudio from Ruud Janssen on Vimeo.
BIG DRAW WASSENAAR
Lekker even groot tekenen op de muur? Samen met anderen kijken of je gedachten aan elkaar kan koppelen via papier, muur of glas? Het kan allemaal! De winkel wordt leeggehaald voor jullie om haar te […]
A whole new frame…
Recently I was asked to describe my personal biggest innovation…and yes… it’s an abstract one. On the 24th of October 2014 my personal change was displayed among 52 AMICI of Jan Buijs, who graduated to […]
A new phase… a new face
Making your mark does not get boring… I must say that for all the years I have been working there have been an equal amount of years of me trying to get my thinking to […]
WAWOE3D
A while back a friendly small lady called Brigitte came into the (th)INKING Salon. She asked me if I could help her print out one of her sculptures during a live Art-Cafe. She had heard […]
framing and EPIC event
What is the last EPIC event you have attended? Something that changed your perspective on things or even the world after visiting an event so great that it is worthy of the adjective EPIC. For […]
Haags Denken
Had a very enjoyable meeting with Ad Dekkers, new director of the bureau of innercity planning The Hague. The conversation was timelapsed on my iphone 5… 15 minutes of editing afterwards et voila! Enjoy an […]
Innovating a good thing
I travelled down to Hilvarenbeek to settle down in a nice inn and have a great diner with my long time friend Ramon Vullings and his partner in ideas Mark Heleven. On my second day after the […]
Creative Cloud
By “accident” I ended up watching Adobe’s keynote introduction of the Creative Cloud. For a lot of reasons I ended up being inspired by the vision and promise of the cloud. The operational director […]
LEAN IMAGES
During my absence in the Thinking salon I shared its thinking space with John van Beers, a neighbour and fellow entrepreneur who is balancing his consulting work for Ericsson with a Phd at the University of Leiden. His academic quest […]
1st day… in the shop
On the first day after the holiday, I made a list of all the stories I would like to finish helping before I can really start on my own. This became a daunting list of story-lines of which […]
Reprogramming City DNA
I have been working with Sam Colijn of Out-Of-Office and the team of van Dongen & Koschuch to create a translation of a complex plan to reprogram the DNA of an actual city. Pforzheim Germany […]
(Th)INK your way into reality!
The last two weeks have been a positive affirmation of my choice to act on my gut. I have been in the store for a little more then a month and have created an open […]
Window dressing
A glad sight to SEE at The thinking salon! Or maybe we should call it the draw-it-Out-with-Kids!?! The moments when friends come by and share some of their experiences are the best inspiration for my […]
Artist/Designer* in Residence
It seems that the old movie clichee is true… if you build it they will come! In all honesty the first OPEN WINDOW THINKING SESSION kind of happend when I started to invited people to come […]
“WATTS” my name!
And suddenly it hit me… dust of the old to match with the new! I have been toying around with this little LOUD SPEAKER because of my love of the visual Value of speaker boxes. […]
Interactive Media Design EXAM
I have been invited by Dave Wille at IMD of the KABK to sit in as an outsider and give my opinion about the students who will be graduating this year. My intention is to describe this process […]
Freshly pressed!
Just last week I was lucky enough to reconnect with my brother in Sand & life to help him realise a project which had been on top of his mind for a quite some time. The idea […]
FROM GUT to new SPACE
When life hands you a perfect place to start a new experiment…you take it! The family walked by the old wellness / bio-product store in Wassenaar and we saw that it was for rent …on […]
…then everybody can play!
…facing the big ocean of possibility when I turn my back to JAM, I jump in with the bagage of 10 Years of building a company that has been getting ready for the new human way […]
A GRidd for thinking
It is strange that someone who is much like yourself can be out of your field of vision for so long… but I have reconnected with my brother in Visualization and must report that bonds […]
Beyond New Governance
This project has been one of the longest running project I have ever worked on. To get to the point where new governance is proposed in a simple 3 part model, I had to wander […]
Community in between
Ronald Lenz of Cities Next is an old friend who has also ventured on to new thinking spaces. He founded the new Community building platform Cities Next with Daniela Krautsack. Together with their team they […]
Becoming Stronger
10 years of friendship & discovery. What a JAM! As brothers in visual thinking we created our own unique brand of experience and learned how to set up a creative business, while at the same time making baby steps to support the acceptance […]
Pecha Kucha means BLA BLA!
I recently attended a cross industry innovation event organised by 21 Lobster street experts Ramon Vullings and Cyriel Kortleven hosted by GDF SUEZ in Bruxelles. It allowed me to see the inspirational crossovers GDF SUEZ […]
Edventure case
I teamed-up with Roel Frissen of C4BMI to do a business modelling session using the Business Model Canvas. The day was initiated by Annemarie Kaptein, director of Edventure. An association of educational consultancy bureaus that enforces integral policy and […]
Energy & Comfort
Even a good thing can sometimes be taken too far. As is the case when I started to look around in the construction world and its efforts in energy saving. What happens here is that right […]
