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master class lecture - 17/06/2010

On June 17th 2010, Nicole will hold a lecture and facilitate a workshop on future thinking in practice, within the context of a masterclass on Integrated Assessment at University College Maastricht (University of Maastricht).

business model innovation - 11/06/2010

Starting on June 22nd 2010, the IBBT - together with VUB Smit & iLab.o - organizes a 2 day masterclass on business model innovation together with Alex Osterwalder, author of the book "business model generation". Michael will present the businessgame for sustainable business model innovation, we developed together with our partners BECO and Howest. Our game builds further upon Alex Osterwalder's business model canvas, adding two elements to it, i.e. "societal & ecological costs and benefits".

milk the green cow - 03/06/2010

At the occasion of the third 'Milk the green cow' session organized by Recentre, the centre for sustainable design, Michael will present our businessgame for sustainable business model innovation. The game challenges companies to redesign their business model in a more sustainable way and was developed by Pantopicon, BECO and Howest, supported by Flanders in Shape.

business game at Reynaers - 27/05/2010

Together with our project partners BECO and Howest, Michael facilitated a full gaming day of our business game for sustainable business model innovation for more than 50 employees from Reynaers Aluminium. In an animated session 8 teams played the game and competed to (re)design the business model of a fictitious company in a more sustainable way. After two astonishing 3min pitches by the finalists, the audience voted their winner.

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what if ... my city? - 20/05/2010

On May 20th 2010, Nik participated in PechaKucha Maastricht on tour at Kaai16 in Hasselt (B) with "What if ... my city?". In the famous 20secs x 20pictures format, he took the audience on an inspirational walk through Hasselt, asking the "what if ?" question when showing a series of streetviews. What if city traffic would be relieved/limited to an e-vehicle delivery system? What if people could decide on where to spend 50% of their taxes in their local town/neighbourhood? What if protocell architecture would find its place? etc.  Check out the video below.