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By Nik Baerten / 21 September / Event, Governance, News, Urban, urban labs / 0 comm.

future of entrepreneurship in Nieuw Zuid

How can an emerging neighbourhood be rendered the perfect feeding ground for innovative entrepreneurs? Or … which types of innovative entrepreneurship might help to enhance the ecological and social sustainability of a neighbourhood? These and many other questions kickstarted a new Stadslab2050 track on the Antwerp neighbourhood under construction “Nieuw Zuid”.[…]

By Nik Baerten / 21 September / Event, healthcare, News, Talk / 0 comm.

futures beyond distribution

At the occasion of PostNL Pharma & Care’s 2016 GDP Masterclass, Nik gave a closing keynote on some – ongoing and to be expected – key changes within the context of distribution and logistics in pharma & healthcare (see SlideShare). What happens to distribution when diagnostics and new approaches to medicine (e.g. regenerative, personalised,[…]

By Catherine Van Holder / 19 September / Academia, Event, News, Talk / 0 comm.

Engineering, Innovation and The Humanities

Pantopicon was invited by the University of Leuven for a keynote to be held during the proclamation ceremony of the Postgraduate Programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering. Last Friday, Catherine took them on a 45min journey through the 4th industrial revolution, touching upon the value of uncertainty thinking and future scenarios,[…]

By Catherine Van Holder / 13 September / Event, Governance, News, Sharing economy, Urban, urban labs / 0 comm.

sharing for sustainable cities

How can sharing initiatives render urban contexts more sustainable? Which future sharing initiatives can we develop for Antwerp? Which levers might help these initiatives gain traction and grow? What might be the role of local authorities in all of this? Around these and other questions Stadslab2050 & Pantopicon brought together a group[…]

By Catherine Van Holder / 19 August / News / 0 comm.

Henry van de Velde “Life Quality”

Pantopicon just submitted Salonklets for the second jury round to compete for the Henry van de Velde Life Quality Award 2016. Salonklets was developed for residential care centre Immaculata in Edegem and was recently implemented after a 5 month pilot in one of the centre’s residence wings. The project’s result[…]

By Catherine Van Holder / 17 August / Academia, News, urban labs / 0 comm.

Pop-up Lecture on Urban Labs

On Wednesday Nicole gave a lecture about Pantopicon’s work on Urban Labs, to a group of students looking to generate new ideas on the future of what the municipality in Gellerup, Århus (Denmark) could provide and offer to the local community. This Pop-up Class was organised within the context of the Sprout Talent Week, which is[…]

By Catherine Van Holder / 16 August / Event, News / 0 comm.

future of food and the city

How might overpopulation and climate change impact the food system in the future? What sorts of solutions might one come up with, given possible and probable future technologies? What ethical and legal challenges might lie on our path to the future? During Museumnacht, on the 8th of Augustus, Catherine touched upon these and[…]

By Nik Baerten / 06 July / Design, News / 0 comm.

the neological institute

Language is a powerful tool, not only to express but also to inspire new meanings, future dynamics and alternate realities. Hence, on June 30th a first edition of our workshop/performance “The Neological Institute” was organised during DRS2016 (Design Research Society Conference) in Brighton (UK). The performance was inspired by a[…]

By Nik Baerten / 21 June / Event, News / 0 comm.

sharing & the city

On June 23rd, Catherine will talk about the future of sharing and the sharing economy in one of the inspiration sessions powered by the Antwerp citylab initiative “Stadslab2050“. All welcome! Do not forget to register.

By Nik Baerten / 06 June / Democracy, Event, News, urban labs / 0 comm.

LAB-Café #WNM16

During the final “LABCafé” of the happening “de Week van Nieuw Maastricht” #WNM16 on June 3rd 2016, Nicole engaged in a panel discussion on the future of urban labs/citylabs. Other panellists included Maurice Hermans (author of “De Anti-stad”), Frank Strolenberg (Cultural Heritage Institute of the Netherlands), Saskia Beer (Transformcity), Gerdo van[…]

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