Border Sessions 2016
Thursday 7th 2016 we hosted a workshop on ‘Thinkering Government’ during the Border Sessions festival in The Hague, a city hack to engage citizens in a dialogue about matters that concern us all. After a short plenary introduction by Rob…
IoT at Forum Da Vinci in Sint-Niklaas
April 1th we travelled to Sint-Niklaas in Belgium to do a talk and host a workshop on the Internet of Things. The setting was exiting, because we were invited to the Forum DaVinci, a comprehensive school (state college or middle school) to engage the students…
The hanging Gardens of the Schilderswijk, pilot workshop
The Schilderswijk (or Painters district) is a stone and asphalt dominated area in The Hague, the Netherlands. In this neighboorhood you’ll find al lot of low income households and imigrants. But it is also a resiliant neighboorhood, with very engaged…
Opening ICX
Today was the official opening of our new initiative: ICX, The International Centre for Civic Hacks in The Hague. http://i-c-x.org In this initiative we’ve joined forces with Arn van der Pluijm, Gerrit Jan van ’t Veen en Nathalie Stembert. Together…
Internet of Things day 2015
Today was the international Internet of Things day. And since we’re in the proces of starting up ICX (The International Center for Civic hacks), we invited everyone to join us for an informal talk about the possibilities IoT has to…
Living lab symposium february 4th 2015
Today we presented our ideas on the Internet of Things and Big data together with Rob van Kranenburg at the Living Lab symposium on the 4th of February in Den Haag. The symposium was organised by Geonovum and the municipality…
Big Improvement Day 2015
On the 20th of January we presented our Paperboat project in the Innovation Corner at the Big Improvement Day 2015.
Pitch TedX Amsterdam 2014 – Paperboat project
Well, here we go… Today we’ve pitched our Paperboat project before the 12-headed TedX jury. Fingers crossed! http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/paperboat-project-mr-mrs-gray/ Watch our pitch: Read the full text: The power of imagination Before we begin our story, we want to share with you…
Interview Binckie Den Haag FM
The brave journalist Willemijn de Koning from Den Haag FM joined us during the maiden voyage of Binckie as our first passenger. She was later joined by Sabrina Lindeman who organised the I’M BINCK festival and Hassan El Houari, district…
Binckie the paper ferry
Den Haag FM devoted an article on Binckie. Read the whole article (in Dutch) here: http://denhaagfm.nl/2014/10/10/den-haag-krijgt-unieke-pontdienst-tussen-laak-en-binckhorst/ Photography Maarten Fleskens