This year I had the privilege to contribute to the ThingCon conference for the first time. My choice: ask for the insights and ‘Hot Takes’ of the participants. This became the ‘Hot Takes’ booth, where I recorded short, spiffy interviews with everybody who dared to go against the grain and share their pet peeves. Kars…
The first pure VIBE research agency? Vibe is externalised instinct, happenstance on demand, crafted artisan bravery and luck by numbers. AI helps the creatively limited, cognitive fatigued, and perspectively perplexed. The pure vibe research agency pushes these concepts in a service with a research flavour. Thoroughly backed by electronic nostalgia, lost inspiration and shaped to…
To create good policy, you need to understand what is happening, what the cause is, and for that, you need data. Unfortunately, much data is hidden in databases, reports and unconnected data lakes. It can be challenging to turn these data into insights. Data engineering, economic knowledge and storytelling helps with this, particularly by visualizing…
Together with Ron Kersic, I produce and present a podcast on topics that most people don’t talk about. We call it the interstitium, the connecting tissue, highway, magic space where topics like innovation and design come together, similarly where business models, history and AI come together. Our conversations are informal and unrehearsed. You can find…
In 2020 I spearheaded a unique collaboration between Cognizant and ARCAM. This collaboration consisted the creation and sponsorship of one of the expositions on Safe Spaces in ARCAM. The result was an interactive and data driven conversation data visualization on various aspects on safety in the city of Amsterdam. The goal: start and guide the…
Sometimes data cannot be easily read through graphs, lists or maps. Sometimes we need 3D. That’s why we mapped our climate sensor data onto a realtime 3D model. To control this ‘digital twin’ we also created a physical controller, shaped after our office building (KBF). This is the KBF-controller. Please note: I wrote this article…
Can we transform visual- and auditive emotional cues into emoji’s? And if so, can we improve your digital experience by reading between the lines? I think so. This is the pitch I send my colleagues to get them to research the subject. Please note: This article was written by me, posted on the now defunct…
For Mirabeau/ Cognizant I have created various murals for the conference and collaboration spaces in their offices. As part of the new offices I had the delight to collaborate with the founders of Mirabeau and the directors of Cognizant to name and decorate their new office in the Kauwgomballenfabriek (a former chewing gum factory). For…
I contributed to the distributed art project by Koen de Wilde, called HUISNR (house number). I made something very flexible and bendy, something you’d expect from people, but also from things. You want them to be real, authentic, true and transparent. I also love weird material. That’s why I added something to the collection of…
“De Goeie Buienradar” (good mood radar) is a semi real time map of people in The Netherlands that are in a good mood. The idea was: “be inspired by the moods of other people.“ De Goeie Buienradar (good mood radar) is a website that shows happy, or optimistic tweets on the map of The Netherlands.…
In my travels I have recorded various binaural recordings in Hongkong, New York and Amsterdam. These were contributed to a virtual travel website, an art project called SoundTransit. Here’s a listing of my work: Amsterdam, NL A short recording of Central Station in Amsterdam … An awesomely diverse place to record. 29.10.2008 04:00 Amsterdam, NL…
In collaboration with art project ‘SoundTransit’ and Museum ‘De Pavilioens’ I organised a workshop for kids in Almere, where we would go out, experience and record all kinds of sounds.
Immersive sound project at Gallery P\\\\akt in Amsterdam.
For the dutch NGO “Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte” I created one of the first technical incarnations of the wonder machine through the design made by Rob Meerman of Mannschaft fame. It was 2006 and this was surely a fast and advanced website by the standards of the day. Later I called the experience we…