De Boodschap van Sanpu
Met een geoefend gebaar zwiept hij de lange bamboestok door de lucht. De punt landt nét tegen de kont van de hond die haastig naar buiten sukkelt, ook al is buiten een relatief begrip. Zoals zo vaak...
View Article“It would have taken Pino…”
On Sunday January the 11th, a sad thing occurred: the hugely popular Neapolitan songwriter and singer Pino Daniele was hit by a major heart attack and died a few hours later. The city of Naples lost...
View Article“What was that you said?”
At times straightforward and up-front, at others modest and demure; sometimes distant and aloof, but on occasion flashy and flamboyant. As a designer of meetings, I listen to the messages expressed by...
View Article“Venue Message Continued”
As a designer of meeting programmes, it is vitally important to capture the messages that buildings whisper in your ears. I introduced the notion in a previous blog. How does this work? Imagine wearing...
View Article“Cube with Quirky Message”
Not so long ago, I paid a visit to a lamp manufacturer’s site. Not simple light bulbs or the run-of-the-mill ceiling tubers you can find in any home, no: the spectacular design stuff that makes your...
View ArticleKomkommercolumn: Bidden voor het eten
Eventmensen zijn nodig om de maatschappij haar rituelen terug te geven Bij mijn vriend Kees thuis begon de avondmaaltijd met een bijzonder ritueel. Vader schepte als eerste het vlees op. Zodra het op...
View Article“People like people. Sometimes”
Not long ago, Meeting Association MPI held its annual EMEC Conference, this year in delightful Kracow, Poland. I had the rare opportunity there to conduct a session under the title “The Meeting Lab”....
View Article“The Rachabanda: An Elementary Meeting in India”
Last year, we visited the Indian cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore, introducing Meeting Design to this vast and impressive country. It was an exhilarating and inspiring experience, generating fun and...
View ArticleContribience, no Google hits yet!
Helsinki, 6th of October 2016, A new word was born on this day. During a Keyshop for Meeting professionals in Helsinki, Finland. The word is contribience. We made it up because there is no good word...
View ArticleThe Meeting Design Practicum 2017
Fourteen adults from 8 different countries are standing in the four corners of a sandbox in a children’s playground. Coloured sheets of paper are strewn all over the sand, kept down by little hillocks...
View ArticleMy Spanish Khichrdi! (pronounced khi-ch-r-di)
Having gotten my VISA on the day of travel, I didn’t have much time to set expectations before landing in the beautiful city of Barcelona for my first visit to the Iberian peninsula. Most of my...
View ArticleAs a girl from Taiwan
As a girl from Taiwan, which is famous for its diversity of food, we know about taste! We also have a very varied vocabulary to describe taste in mandarin, such MA(麻) to describe the feeling on the...
View Article“Venue Message Continued”
As a designer of meeting programmes, it is vitally important to capture the messages that buildings whisper in your ears. I introduced the notion in a previous blog. How does this work? Imagine wearing...
View Article“Cube with Quirky Message”
Not so long ago, I paid a visit to a lamp manufacturer’s site. Not simple light bulbs or the run-of-the-mill ceiling tubers you can find in any home, no: the spectacular design stuff that makes your...
View ArticleKomkommercolumn: Bidden voor het eten
Eventmensen zijn nodig om de maatschappij haar rituelen terug te geven Bij mijn vriend Kees thuis begon de avondmaaltijd met een bijzonder ritueel. Vader schepte als eerste het vlees op. Zodra het op...
View Article“People like people. Sometimes”
Not long ago, Meeting Association MPI held its annual EMEC Conference, this year in delightful Kracow, Poland. I had the rare opportunity there to conduct a session under the title “The Meeting Lab”....
View Article“The Rachabanda: An Elementary Meeting in India”
Last year, we visited the Indian cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore, introducing Meeting Design to this vast and impressive country. It was an exhilarating and inspiring experience, generating fun and...
View ArticleContribience, no Google hits yet!
Helsinki, 6th of October 2016, A new word was born on this day. During a Keyshop for Meeting professionals in Helsinki, Finland. The word is contribience. We made it up because there is no good word...
View ArticleThe Meeting Design Practicum 2017
Fourteen adults from 8 different countries are standing in the four corners of a sandbox in a children’s playground. Coloured sheets of paper are strewn all over the sand, kept down by little hillocks...
View ArticleMy Spanish Khichrdi! (pronounced khi-ch-r-di)
Having gotten my VISA on the day of travel, I didn’t have much time to set expectations before landing in the beautiful city of Barcelona for my first visit to the Iberian peninsula. Most of my...
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