Our team always learns!This time about circular design
Our team learns continuously! Yesterday we got a portion of #learning and practical tips about #circular #design from Change Pilots. Big Thanks to Henryk Stawicki for all the #insights, we are inspired! #circular #design #strategic #servicedesign
Conference to welcome new members of IMS
#people #planet #prosperity these are the axes of the activities for IMS Luxembourg – Inspiring More Sustainability and as they are also in our focus, we join the network ! As Christian Scharff, the President just mentioned: acting for sustainability is very altruist action and also a bit egoist because we do it for us, for our kids and the future […]
Facilitation of Journée de réflexion for ULESS
Facilitating creative learning events is one of our speciality ! Our team of facilitators has worked last week with the members of ULESS ((Union luxembourgeoise de l’économie social et solidaire) on defining strategies for coming years. Despite the virtual setting we managed to engage more than 30 participants in creative dynamics and constructive exchange of […]
ANIJ co-creation workshop
We co-create! this time together with ANIJ we design the desirable youth information point. Young people from 16 years old are welcome to join us in this creative process at the end of February and share their ideas what space/service would serve them best. Let’s consult the direct users, before we innovate on services or […]
Circular Design Workshop for Luxinnovation
Last week we had a chance to facilitate a 4-hour Design Thinking workshop, with the focus on #circular #design. The workshop kick-started the 12-week coaching programme for our 10 candidates of the Circular By Design Challenge, the new program of Luxinnovation supporting 10 entrepreneurs in development of circular products and services. We cross fingers for […]
All the best for the NEW!
Big big THANK YOU for all our partners, friends, clients, facilitators, participants, interns, beneficiaries for all the learnings together in 2020 and we are looking forward to meet you again, very soon!
Re-design Your Career with Design Thinking Workshop
More details here: https://artsquarelab.net/re-design-your-career-workshop/
Design Thinking Meet-up tomorrow (online of course!)
2020 is the year full of challenges! For a lot of trends analysts COVID-19 was a black swan, but for another part it was predictable, but nobody has taken it seriously. We have expected more digital viruses than biological.What does it mean for us? Do we really seriously think about climate change or we still […]
Futures Thinking in ECG
In the frame of our partnership with Ecole de Commerce et de Gestion, Magdalena Jakubowska offered the students an afternoon conference about Social Entrepreneurship and Futures Thinking. How to analyse potential signals of change? How to build new business models based on those signals, customer feedback and trends like sustainability and circularity? InWe hope to […]
We are member of IMS Luxembourg
Last 3 years of designing services we realise that #sustainability is a condition we do not want to compromise. As the partnerships with like-minded organisations are essential, we have a pleasure to become member of IMS Luxembourg – Inspiring More Sustainability to learn, share and develop competences. We have also re-defined our mission: Art Square Lab feels committed to co-create […]
SDG impact training sessions start 11th November!
Interested in building positive impact on society with your business? looking closer at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework will allow you to assess how far your company is from supporting environmental or societal needs with your operations, products and services. Our 4-steps process is open for teams ready to reflect, rethink and put their […]
Social Entrepreneurship Conference on 15th October
If you are into topic of social entrepreneurship, register now to digital co-creation #conference of Work in Progress asbl titled: “Can social companies change the future of refugees and migrants?” Together we will work on 4 key-topics defined previously by the community during co-creation sessions, using #designthinking. Happening on October, 15th (Thursday) from 9 am […]
Collaboration with School of Business and Management
We are pleased to welcome ECG Luxembourg as our associated partner for Creative and Design Thinking MOOC project! Together with an international consortium we are going to prepare and test #design#thinking online modules for future #entrepreneurs. Looking forward to our collaboration: direct connection with the school will provide a direct feedback for the intellectual outputs of the Erasmus Plus project […]
Transversal skills for employability
VOLEM project (VOLontariat for l’EMployabilité) Many European countries encourage, though dedicated legal schemes, young people to volunteer, at national or European level, to gain experience and develop new skills. What are really the benefits of volunteering for young people? Does this experience enhance their chances when entering the labour market? What is the impact on […]
Sustainability Academy- 5R in Youth Work training Course (50h online)
The Sustainability Academy is a 4-week online training in sustainable youth work. Using Design Thinking, we will focus on sustainable development principles, social entrepreneurship and circular economy and learn how to apply those concepts while working with young people. The training is financed in the frame of EU Program Erasmus + More information and registrations […]
Academy for Diversity and Innovation
Having time and appetite for learning during summer? Join Academy for Diversity and Innovation online courses and masterclasses where you can #learn together and #network with the participants from all over the world (yes, its is synchronised learning!) We are happy to be part of the team of 17 facilitators and we will offer “Design Thinking and Doing Diversity” training: 12h of […]
Co-creating Social Business
What is the smart business? for us it is a social enterprise: it creates #profits while benefiting #society and the #environment. Last week had a chance to facilitate #online #cocreation in a great company of #social #entrepreneurs from all over Europe working on great initiatives like Köömen (= cumin) catering service in Estonia, magdas Social Business hotel in Vienna or Magnet- Migrant Entrepreneurship Academy. It was a second […]
Ideation Workshop for LISER
In June we had a great pleasure to work with researchers from LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) and LIST supporting the process of ideas’ generation with Design Thinking. During 4 workshops we managed together to come up with 6 great prototypes for further development of Gender Game project: an interactive board game that rises […]
Webinar with Paperjam Club
“If you are going through hell, keep going” W. Churchil The current crisis shakes the way we think about doing business and makes the company wonder what will happen next. Some take courageous “ad-hoc” steps to come up with new ideas, others prefer to wait and see. In both cases, it is necessary to navigate through […]
Rethink your business with Fit4Service
More than ever, the medium and small enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged now to rethink what customer experience their products and services offer to their customers. Investing in diagnostic of the situation is sometimes overlooked even if the process can bring interesting evidence (and insights) for further business decisions. Last weeks, we put out time and […]
Circular city- is that possible? Impressions from Meet-up in May
Inspired by the case of the city of Amsterdam where the “Doughnut model” by Kate Raworth was formally adopted by the municipality as a starting point for public policy decisions” we were eager to discuss how far this change is possible in Luxembourg, what it takes to become circular city? Is a circular economy the […]
World Creativity and Innovation Day
Managed with fitness and yoga routine during lockdown? Time to stretch your creativity muscles – it can be also your daily habit. Let’s start with a light challenge: what about defining the word that does not exist yet? The winner will get the free ticket to our Design Thinking Fundamentals online course! Post your ideas […]
Welcome Julia to our team!
In these turbulent times we need to put more heads together to create better services of tomorrow! Ladies and Gentleman: Julia Gregor, a social innovator!Social entrepreneur, dedicated to develop sustainable projects and build social innovation in Luxembourg. Julia has almost two decades of professional experience with environmental education, development of regional projects with LEADER program […]
Luxembourg Service Jam 2020- POSTPONED!
Dear all, due to the latest developments of COVID-19 the date of the Luxembourg Service Jam 2020 will be changed for the second part of the year. We will keep you posted: at the moment HQ of Global Jams suggested 8th August as the second date. We will keep you informed. In the meantime, say […]
How to manage virtual classroom: free webinar for teachers from Luxembourg
If you are a teacher in Luxembourg and planning to transfer the content of your class to the students online, join our free 2h-webinars to learn about DOs and DON’Ts of creating best online learning environment for you students. Piotr Gawel and Magdalena Jakubowska will be glad to share with you our expertise about managing […]
Participatory Art Projects Seminar
Last week we had a pleasure to facilitate an international conference about #participatory methodologies in art #education programmes in the frame of Trans Europe Halle network for Kulturfabrik and Cooperations Luxembourg. A lot of discussions and ideas how to involve the end #users in process of #cocreation, planning and realisation of new events and #community […]
Sustainable Development Goals and business?
How #sdgs can inspire and change #future #businesses? For us it is a great challenge to support companies and institutions with creating new solutions inspired by #sustainabledevelopmentgoals. During yesterdays’s meet-up, after presentation of Karel Vanderpoorten, policy officer from Social Economy Unit in European Commission, we took part in the workshop led by Tanguy de Lestre about implementing #sdgs in #business. […]
Creative and Design Thinking MOOC
A throwback to last week Join Staff Training in #Turku, Finland where together with partners from Finland, Iceland, France and Italy we planned the next steps to create the Mooc on Design Thinking for students of #entrepreneurship.When in 2018 we were invited to co-create the #designthinking#mooc in an European consortium we could not imagine how much learning it’s going […]
Sustainable business- an oxymoron?
Interested in reflection on #sustainable business models? Join our discussion on next meetup #luxembourg on 26th February. Our two excellent speakers Mr. Karel Vanderpoorten (Policy Officer in EC) and Mr. Tanguy de Lestré will share their input and the discussion will follow: How might we support companies to make a shift in their business models or get inspired by […]
Want to co-create the future of food?
Join us for co-creation session about future of food next week at Exki Gare on 25th of February! together we want to build ideas for the challenges of healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Please register here: http://bit.ly/2V6NfIl we offer snacks and drinks during the session:)