Last week started out with a visit to the Utrecht Medical Centre to discuss a possible new project. I was introduced to this by my younger brother Ties, who is one third of the infamous Pony Design Club, a graphic design studio and also of Dufarge, whose apparel I regularly sport. Anyway, the project is […]
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Week 169
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Also tagged Amsterdam, Brendan Dawes, Dufarge, Kamermaker, Monobanda, Open Coop, Pony Design Club, Sake, TEDxUtrecht, The Village, Tinker, Topika, UMC, Victory Boogie Woogie
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Kars speaking at several upcoming events
There’s a number of upcoming events in the Netherlands and abroad that I’ll be speaking at. Here’s a quick rundown. The first one is short notice: this weekend I will be in Helsinki for Virtueel Platform’s Dutch E-culture Days at the World Design Capital Pavilion. I will be talking about PLAY Pilots, and specifically the […]
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Also tagged /dev/haag, Berlin, Den Haag, Dutch Game Garden, Helsinki, Pig Chase, PLAY Pilots, Playpublik, Virtueel Platform
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Come over and play at Tweetakt
From my window I can see guys building the Tweetakt pavilion on the Neude square. They’ve started today. Next week, the festival starts. And I’m a little excited because this year I was asked by Tweetakt to curate the interactive exhibition that will be on display at the pavilion. Tweetakt is a festival for performing […]
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Also tagged events, festivals, installations, interaction design, performance, theatre, This happened, This happened – Utrecht, Tweetakt
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PLAY Pilots is live
We’ve launched a first version of PLAY Pilots; a web site we’ve been working on the past few months. It is the next phase of our engagement with the city of Utrecht on cultural innovation through play, which I alluded to in this post.1 At this point, the site allows you to see what custom-made […]
So yeah we’ve moved
If you look in the footer of this website, or on its contact page, you’ll see a new address. Neude 5, Utrecht, NL. We’ve been happy renters at the Dutch Game Garden for almost two years now so when they announced their move to a new location of course we wanted to stick with them […]
You’ll find us at Kunstgras 2010
On Wednesday 2 June you’ll find me at Kunstgras 2010; an event where creative entrepreneurs from the Utrecht area and beyond meet and exchange ideas. The We Love Creatief Utrecht book, which includes an interview myself, will be presented there as well. (Many thanks to Karel Millenaar of FourceLabs for making that happen.) It’s not often that […]
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Also tagged art, conferences, creativity, entrepreneurship, events, Kunstgras 2010
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Join us in Utrecht for FRIDAYS AT 7
So it’s time for a new thing, something that will possibly turn into a irregularly recurring get-together for friends of the studio. We’ve borrowed the name—FRIDAYS AT 7—from the drinks Urbanscale organizes in NYC. With permission, of course, as can be told from this exchange on Twitter: @kaeru Do what thou wilt shall be the […]