Creating Future Scenarios training
Imagine you wake up in a sustainable world. Where are you? What does your neighbourhood look like? Your house? What do you do for a living? What messages do you get? Was it difficult for you to imagine? Together with 20 youth workers, educators and trainers, we spent the last week exploring the potential of futures thinking and imagination in education for sustainable development. Do […]
Service Design for public services – join our meet up!
We are starting a new season of our meet-ups! places to learn, share, exchange and get new ideas! This time we are going to talk about #servicedesign in the creation and improvement of #publicservices . We are pleased to share a case study of the Luxembourg ‘Zesumme-Vereinfachen’ platform, which will be presented by Martine Kerschen […]
5 years of Art Square Lab- Happy Birthday to us!
5 employees 15 collaborators: facilitators, moderators, trainers, thinkers & doers 55 projects … and more to come! Many thanks to our supporters, partners and clients for your trust.
Resilience Academy 16th November- let’s get future proof :)
Hello youth work!In Art Square Lab we can’t stop thinking how might we get ready for the future and especially how to engage young people into this reflection. There are 3 “must-do’s” we have spotted: – imagination is essential, can we practice?– creativity and generating ideas will not happen in the vacuum, we need to […]
Activity Report 2021 is here!
We have a pleasure to present you the Social Impact Activity report from 2021 of Art Square Lab (SIS). It was an interesting year full of educational initiatives! ! we see ourself as an important actor of the social economy in Luxembourg but also an influencer of the educational trends !! at the same time […]
When design follows thinking in sustainable way!
#DiscoverEU is a fantastic initiative where young people of 18 years old can win a free train ticket to travel in EU, valid for 1 month (interail). Sustainable adventure! In addition, they can stop over several places and take part in a #meetup together with other participants of the program. Last week in Luxembourg, Anefore […]
Creativity tool box is there!
We are proud to announce that the Imaginarium tool box online is up and running! Our great partnership of 4 organisations involved in creativity, design thinking, innovation and future studies from France, Finland, Ireland and Luxembourg combined forces to share the Toolbox with methods, games, ideas for youth leaders and educators. Using the tools makes […]
“Le travail social dans les communes” – Journée d’échange
Nous sommes heureux de soutenir l’organisation de cette importante #journée de #réflexion pour l’Entente des Offices Sociaux et le Syvicol, avec plus de 140 participants apprenant et échangeant de bonnes pratiques et #cocréant des #idées pour l’amélioration des services sociaux. Echanges importants sur les bonnes pratiques de collaboration entre les services sociaux et les municipalités : le rapport avec les résultats des ateliers […]
VOLEM project in Luxembourg
The partners of the European Erasmus + project Volem (VOLunteering for EMployability) organised a transnational meeting with about twenty young French and Italian people in Luxembourg from 10 to 15 June 2022. The objective of this meeting was to propose to the young volunteers to reflect on the skills acquired during their volunteering and the […]
Design Thinking for 90 students of Ecole de Commerce (ECG)
What is a Thinkathon? it is a co-creative workshop where young people imagine sustainable futures for their communities using Design Thinking and Futures Thinking tools! We were happy to work with 90 young people at ECG Luxembourg and our European Partners on Imaginarium- Creative Youth for Sustainable Future. We finished the day with 10 prototypes […]
Join our team!
We are currently looking for a new Team member in Art Square Lab: Project Manager (version FR ci-dessous) Do you want to join a boutique consulting firm to grow with us, our clients and partners? If you are looking for diverse projects and a team that likes to learn and is always looking for new […]
Design Thinking during Consumer Day 2022
Take the opportunity to help develop consumer protection! The Consumer Dialogue Day is the ideal moment for all people living in Luxembourg to get directly involved in the development of consumer protection policy. If you are interested in co-creation workshop with the Ministry of Consumer Protection, sign in for the 27th of April (9.00-17.00) at […]
La résilience dans le secteur jeunesse- Plan B Project
Comment pourrions-nous développer l’adaptabilité et la capacité à faire face à une nouvelle crise ? Comment pourrions-nous encourager le bien-être des professionnels du secteur jeunesse? La Conférence avec sessions de co création sur la résilience dans le secteur jeunesse a réuni 25 participants le mardi 29 mars dernier. Le projet “Plan B : Comment développer […]
Second hand as a first choice?
The “Imaginarium- Youth for Sustainable Futures” project prototypes developed by the participants are present at the Pop-Up Store in Esch sur Alzette this week! Stephen and Olya, two of the youth project members, have been working hard on setting up the space and talking with locals and youth alike who have come into the space. […]
Thinking-Talking- Building Scenarios for the Future
Imaginarium- Creative youth for Sustainable Futures project aims into design of tool-kit for educators on various scenarios of the future. But how to talk to young people about the future? what kind of “futures” young people imagine? How far we can assist them with nurturing their imagination so that they can use it as a […]
Plan B: Conférence avec des sessions de co-création le 29 Mars
Le projet “Plan B : Comment développer la résilience et une approche agile en tant que professionnel du secteur jeunesse” développé par Art Square Lab, avec le soutien de l’Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, entre dans une phase plus opérationnelle ! Après avoir mené une phase d’analyse des pratiques existantes (entretiens importants avec les […]
Resilience in Youth Work: Plan B Report is ready!
How might we shape education and youth work in our changing world? The project “Plan B: How to develop resilience and an agile approach as a youth sector professional” developed by Art Square Lab, with the support of Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, is entering a more operational phase! We are happy to present […]
Design Thinking Courses for Teachers (IFEN)
In 2022, Art Square Lab provides online Design Thinking Fundamentals training for teachers in Luxembourgish and English. The basic course will give you an overview of the methodology, offer some examples from educational sector in Europe and will answer your questions about further materials and resources. More details in IFEN’s catalogue of courses or please […]
Consumer Protection: Focus Groups in March 2022
In the frame of preparation for the Consumer Dialogue day in April, we kindly invite the citizens to take part in the 3 Focus Groups (in ENG, LU, FR) organised in March in 3 different locations (Luxembourg City, Ettelbruck and Esch-sur-Alzette). The purpose of the Focus Groups (and the survey that is still open here) […]
Co-creation session with ILA: design Thinking in action
The creation of new ideas for solutions rarely happens when we are sitting at our desks, between meetings and the urgent need to answer emails. That is why a co-creation session in a creative lab (Art Square Lab:) gives you the opportunity to step out of your real and mental box, change your perspective, turn […]
We wish you the best future!
At the end of the year, let’s think about the new: how will it look like? Dreaming about the future is one thing but as designers we have the responsibility and motivation to co-create it. Together with young people, experts and the researchers from Luxembourg we have imagined the possible future scenarios addressing the climate […]
It’s time to take a rest…
Thank you for your time with us in 2021! we are charging our batteries for the future, to offer best service to our partners and our clients!
Creativity Training in Ireland
We are lucky to meet our partners for IMAGINARIUM project, in person Zoom is good but nothing can replace #creative process offline, with real people, emotions and ideas. After 9 months of the project activities run online we are glad to discuss the first intellectual outputs and plan next steps: Creativity Tool Kit designed for […]
We facilitated peace education seminar for Service National de la Jeunesse
Last week enriching experience for Service National de la Jeunesse: facilitating again face-to face (and sometimes mask to mask) in a real room, with real people, peace educators from all over Europe. We have learned again that it is worth to engage our energy into creating best learning conditions where professional who are strangers build […]
Building resilient education? Possible with Plan B project.
Last year, we got used to talks about the future of work and the set of competences needed to turn fragile businesses into resilient structures that will face the new challenges. And what about education? How has work with young people been impacted during the pandemic? How did youth organisations adapt to the change? What […]
And what if … Imaginarium Project connecting science and youth for sustainable futures
It was not a hackathon, it was a think-athon! A 2-day Design Thinking workshop where young people put their heads together with selected researchers to re-think and build ideas towards sustainable futures in Luxembourg. The workshop, organised by Art Square Lab, was hosted by the city of Esch-sur-Alzette between the 22nd and 23rd of October. […]
We did it again! our visit to the Dutch Design Week 2021!
We are happy to manage to travel to Eindhoven for our annual “pilgrimage” to see the Dutch Design Week 2021! Best place to be to observe how the world is changing so we come back full of inspirations! “Together, we explore how design can foster our future cities, where collective ownership, fluid identities and nature will thrive.”(DDW) […]
We facilitated Assises des SIS – gathering of Social Entrepreneurs in Luxembourg
Last week, we were happy to to support ULESS (Union luxembourgeoise de l’économie sociale et solidaire) in organisation of the ASSISES des SIS: building together social economy where #impact on #society and #environment is as important as monetary value. No utopia, not philanthropy but simply smart business with futures thinking. Looking forward to our next […]
Imaginarium: Youth for Sustainable Futures 22nd-23rd October
We are looking forward to our Design Workshop next weekend! Together with young people from all over Luxembourg, we are going to spend 24h on inventing new ideas to develop sustainable communities. Join us! We will speak English, French and Luxembourgish! If you are young person concerned with the topic of climate change and you […]
Design Jam on Social Entrepreneurship was ON!
Last weekend was a special one: after long break we could get back to our signature events: Design Thinking Jams! And this edition was special because we ideated on Social Entrepreneurship and its understanding by the future generations. How might we encourage young people to social entrepreneurship? how might we act together for betterment of […]