Stories Matter
After completing high school, I didn’t immediately come to The Netherlands to study what I am learning today. I began my university studies in Italy following my strong passion for [...]
Rising Stress from Rising Seas
The Emotional Toll of Climate Change Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with someone deeply concerned about the state of our planet? Perhaps you’ve had a [...]
Words Shaping Action
How Three Non-Environmental Books Influenced My Climate Activism In my previous blogs, I talked about how environmental issues have impacted me as a social innovator and person. But my journey [...]
Moving Beyond “Doom & Gloom”
Despite the increasing attention the climate emergency receives from media, institutions, and governments, people are still not engaging with the issue as much as we had hoped. The latest IPCC [...]
We Can All Be Hopepunks
I still remember the time during my first year at Breda University of Applied Sciences when we had the introduction days about the different tracks. I remember listening to a [...]
Past, Present, and Future Me
The start of my journey at Social Innovation feels like a lifetime ago. Now that I have finished my graduation project, both physically and mentally, it is time to [...]
Addressing Unknown ‘Unknowns’
Currently, technology is developing at an alarming rate (“International Labour Office”, 2020). Nobody can accurately predict what the future societal landscape will look like. Within my graduation assignment as [...]
Health Care Policies: Ambulatory Care & Protected Living
One of the sectors that always fascinated me is the Dutch healthcare system. When I was a child, I wanted to become veterinarian, a job that combines both my [...]
Social Innovation: Working with Children
At the study Social Innovation, we students learn a lot about co-creating with other people. Whether you are designing an interactive experience, guiding a complicated process, or supporting the [...]
De Uitvindfabriek: A Tech-Based Experience Centre
For my graduation project, I worked together with the De Uitvindfabriek, an organisation located in Breda. De Uitvindfabriek is an experience centre aimed at the target group of children [...]
Impact within Technology and Education
What does it mean to create impact? During my time at Performatory, I have done many projects. From creating a podcast to connecting a community for a start-up, I [...]
A final goodbye
This is the final blog of this graduation series and it will elaborate on my final expedition. You have read about my approach, lessons and project in the previous [...]
Go with the flow
Go with the flow, it is something that is being said often. But what does it mean? Why do I value this quote and what does it lead to? [...]
It’s not just a lucky number
Do you know that feeling when you're celebrating success and people are amazed at 'how lucky you are'? Or when they say 'things fall into your lap'? What if [...]
Authenticity: the courage to be yourself
As you know by now, I have started working at the company I did my graduation assignment for. LEF Recruitment and LEF Green are recruitment agencies and one of [...]
Chasing Dreams
I have explained my interest in sustainability and how it has led to making an impact professionally. And that was the initial focus of my graduation project. In the [...]
Call to action
There are various reasons why I have eventually chosen to focus on this particular graduation project I am currently involved with. Several interests have grown over time and have [...]
Imagine connection – what does it feel like and how can we build it?
“Is human nature separatism, tribalism and passionate distrust of the ‘other’? Or is it co-operation, recognition and, provided basic needs are met, a live-and-let-live attitude to all? What’s your [...]
Having one good friend can make a difference
Leisure as an instrument for impact Leisure time is an amazing time. It is the time that you enjoy and makes you feel alive. However, Leisure is more. [...]
A Homage to Design Thinking
“The future is fiction and with every choice, we are writing that future now.” Designing Our Future Humanity’s future does not look charming. With [...]
Play-Fight practice: a journey of connection
In the autumn of 2019, I participated in the Movement Immersion camp organized by the Formless Arts collective. This is where I first encountered the Play-Fight practice which proved [...]
Can we learn from our past instead of repeating it?
In this article I mean to share some personal thoughts that arose after watching ‘Landscapes of resistance’ (2021), by Serbian director Marta Popivoda. The movie touched me and triggered [...]
The Creation of Thinking
Out-of-the-box thinking is a well-known phrase in creative thinking. Already from an early age, creative thinking should be stimulated in the development and growth of children. Called the 21st-century [...]
Dancing to change the world – the role of embodiment and performing arts in societal transformation
Picture from an embodiment workshop I facilitated for a group of Performatory students together with Suzan Lindhout. In the search for my own practice as transformative social innovator, I [...]
Rebelling for Regenerative Cultures
For an Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest about a year ago, I was asked to give a speech about regenerative cultures. It was recorded through a Facebook livestream video which [...]