Innovation. Everyone seems to be talking about it. We all need to become creative and innovate, otherwise we risk falling behind. Now, let’s for the moment let go of the warm and fuzzy word. When can you call an innovation really successful? When it is successfully brought to market. When it is turned into a [...]
This weekend, Kite Consultants, Flanders DC jointly organised the Belgian version of the Global Sustainability Jam, kindly hosted by Idealabs in Antwerp. Team 3 came up with the idea of the Heat light. Heatlight is an illuminating garment using the body heat as a power supply. And this group even succeeded in making a prototype. [...]
This weekend, Kite Consultants, Flanders DC jointly organised the Belgian version of the Global Sustainability Jam, kindly hosted by Idealabs in Antwerp. Team 2 came up with the idea of the H2O project. Project H2O is changing water consumption behaviours by creating awareness. It consists of an add-on for all water taps in your home. [...]
This weekend, Kite Consultants, Flanders DC jointly organised the Belgian version of the Global Sustainability Jam, kindly hosted by Idealabs in Antwerp. Team 1 came up with the idea of the Plantenbank. Project ‘Plantenbank’ aims to create green cities creating an exosystem of owners and gardeners producing local food on their rooftop, wall and terrasses [...]
This weekend, Kite Consultants, Flanders DC jointly organised the Belgian version of the Global Sustainability Jam, kindly hosted by Idealabs in Antwerp. The world wide theme of this jam is (heart)beats. After a wild brainstorm, 3 teams came up with 3 marvelous ideas. We bring more biodiversity in our cities. We create awareness about spilling [...]
Designer Reinhart Paelinck advocates kites as a system to capture wind energy. Theory shows that kites are much more efficient than classical wind turbines. There’s two reasons for that: the kite is much bigger than the wind turbine blades, and the kite can reach altitudes with increased wind speed, compared to wind turbines. We invited [...]
This afternoon starts with some guest speakers. Stefaan Vandist (Studio Spark) and Wouter Ulburghs (OVAM) will be presenting the SIS toolkit in a minute. This to expand our horizon and feed the discussions in the afternoon. Short video presentation of the OVAM SIS toolkit. Combining financial, human, intellectual, social, and natural capital.
Belgium is part of the Global Sustainability Jam 2012. In Antwerpen we are working on a more sustainable society at Idealabs. After a kick-off session with Vicky Daniëls and Manu Bollue, we were ready for a brainstorming session. This resulted in over 400 ideas for a better world. We have selected 3 which will be [...]
The digital has taken the economy by storm. The shift is from physical to digital, from bricks to clicks, from manpower to mind-power. In a world where anything is possible wealth is created not so much by brute force, money, power, and scale but by imagination. The way we create wealth is changing, work has [...]
Saterday February 4th – Outside the streets, the houses, the trees, the world is covered with a carpet of white snow. I imagine how each snowflake could be a spark of something new, a materialization of each idea that is hanging in the air here at the Muziekodroom. Today I am at TEDxEutropolis in Hasselt. Together with [...]
