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DesignLab Workshops

Innovation Through You

The DesignLab organizes a series of workshops every year to encourage students and staff from different disciplines to be able to build from their own ideas. Their first workshop of this year’s series ‘Intro to Solid Works’ was held yesterday. A member of the DreamTeam and one of the main organizers Dirk Wanders tells us more about them.
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Biking 4500 kilometres in 30 days for sustainability

‘Sometimes you need to do crazy things to achieve big things’

In a challenge he calls ‘Mission unstoppable,’ Martin Lehman is making a 30-day biking journey from Denmark to Portugal to promote the European Consortium of Innovative Universities' (ECIU) work on sustainable development. Yesterday afternoon the professor from Aalborg University made a quick stop at the DesignLab to meet his Twente ECIU-colleagues and talk about his purpose.
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Sanderinkbeurs voor UT-student Juul Nuijen

Tweedejaars student technische geneeskunde Juul Nuijen ontving vrijdagmiddag de Sanderink-beurs in het DesignLab. Het bijbehorende bedrag van tien mille krijgt ze verspreid over 12 maanden. ‘Hiermee kan ik me volledig op de studie richten.’
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ECIU Creathon

‘Trying to help society’

The first ECIU Creathon will kick-off this Friday at the UT. It is organised by Novel-T and DesignLab for ECIU (European Consortium of Innovative Universities) members and will welcome over 80 participants. Coming from all over Europe, the teams will work on creative solutions to pressing issues faced by ECIU member regions.
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UT signs an agreement with Overijssel

The University of Twente has signed an agreement with the province of Overijssel. The aim of the newly founded collaboration is to use DesignLab’s design methodology and UT’s wide-ranging expertise as guidance for new governmental policies.
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Human-technology relations conference

A critical look at technologies shaping our lives

Around 300 scholars from different disciplines have gathered at the DesignLab to discuss human-technology relations. The three-day conference that started last Wednesday has been hosting people from all over the world to discuss ethical, political, and existential implications of technologies.
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Nieuw beheer, nieuwe start voor Classroom of the Future

Het eigenaarschap en beheer van Classroom of the Future komt bij DesignLab te liggen. Voorheen was die taak in handen van LISA. ‘Voor DesignLab is het eigenaarschap reden om vaart te zetten achter nieuwe initiatieven’, aldus projectmanager Miriam Iliohan.
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Levend netvlies op Twentse chip

Het diagnosticeren van oogaandoeningen is een ‘berucht’ probleem, weet UT-onderzoeker Andries van der Meer. Een levend stukje netvlies op een Twentse chip biedt uitkomst. In het DesignLab gaan belanghebbenden donderdag en vrijdag met elkaar in gesprek over deze nieuwe ‘eye-on-a-chip’-technologie.
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Voorinvesteringen in onderwijskwaliteit

‘Basisbeursgeld DesignLab naar onderwijsvernieuwing’

Het DesignLab kreeg de afgelopen twee jaar 2,7 miljoen begroting, vanuit de ‘voorinvesteringen’ die de UT deed van het geld dat vrijkomt door het afschaffen van de basisbeurs. Directeur DesignLab, Frank Kresin: ‘We hebben een uniek lab opgebouwd waar studenten en onderzoekers multidisciplinair aan maatschappelijke thema’s werken.’
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Queer design: products beyond traditional gender norms

Are design choices perpetuating traditional gender norms? If so, how can designers consciously develop products that break off from our conventions around gender? Silas Denz, a Master student of Industrial Design Engineering, offered the ‘Queering design’ workshop in DesignLab last Friday to explore these questions.
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Debate and exhibit China’s social credit system

‘It’s like turning life into a video game’

An interactive exhibit and open debate about China’s social credit system will be held in DesignLab today. This exhibition is the apex of Creative Technology student Quinton Denman’s bachelor thesis. He uses China’s credit system to exemplify ubiquitous monitoring that occurs within the Netherlands.
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Urban Planning through games

Play The City

As part of the first Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium hosted at the University of Twente, Ekim Tan offered a public lecture yesterday. The director of Amsterdam’s Play the City explained at the DesignLab how the games her company designs can offer advice on urban planning for policymakers, designers, and local citizens.
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