We create tools for creativity!
Many social challenges that we are facing, such as climate change, inequality or poverty, have been further developed in a short space of time by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many dark narratives are being created, with environmental, social and economical crisis in the first line. But, uncertainties should not frighten or paralyze us; they should help […]
We are part of MESIS now !
Since July 2021 you can find us in MESIS in Luxembourg City (Maison de l”economie sociale et de l’innovation sociale), next to other social enterprises active in Luxembourg as well as ULESS – the federation of social impact organisations. It is great to grow together in this environment and serve our expertise to others. Our […]
Press release ART SQUARE LAB BECOMES A SOCIAL IMPACT COMPANY (SIS)
Press release 19/07/2021 (French version below) ART SQUARE LAB BECOMES A SOCIAL IMPACT COMPANY (SIS) Art Square Lab, the first Service Design agency in Luxembourg, obtained on May 31st, 2021 the approval as a societal impact company, reinforcing the social purpose of the company. Unlike traditional companies, our primary reason for being is to create […]
Webinar “Service Design in Youth Work” on 7th July
Designing services for young people vs with young people, power of co-creation and engagement of young citizens – these are the topics that we are going to talk about during “Service Design in Youth Work” webinar organised by ANIJ (Agence National pour l’Information des Jeunes). We will present two cases from our work where service […]
The European Citizen’s Initiative: focus on Luxembourg!
On Friday 18th of June we will facilitate an online event focused on the very interesting tool for democratic participation of citizens: European Citizen’s Initiative. The European Citizens‘ Initiative is a unique way for you to help shape the EU by calling on the European Commission to propose new laws. Once an initiative has reached 1 million signatures, the Commission will decide on what […]
Service Design in Youth Information
How can Service Design change the way Youth Information Services are organised? Great discussions during yesterday’s webinar organised by ERYICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) and Council of Europe. We were honoured to offer our input and discuss the value of user-research, co-creation and testing ideas for new services for young people and educators. […]
Improve your digital skills
Have you been on chômage partiel? Develop your employability by following a training course in the digital field. The Government offers you a voucher of 500 euros to train in one of the 34 accredited centres, including Art Square Lab, the leading Service Design agency in Luxembourg. We offer you our expertise to develop your […]
Future of work and skills & the role of human-centered design (meet up)
During our next meet up in Design Thinking Luxembourg group we would like to discuss and share with you trends impacting the future of work, jobs, tasks and skills (with a particular focus on AI). What kind of employees are we looking for today and what kind of employees are we looking for tomorrow? What […]
Gamification of educational content for MOOC
Yesterday we had our 2nd workshop to continue the integration of the content into the MOOC course. We learned from our partner Succubus Interactive different forms to integrate content in a more engaging way.The different modules were also defined thanks to our experts in #creativeproblemsolvingPeppino Franco and #designthinking from… Art Square Lab !!!Now we will […]
New Art Square Lab training catalogue for companies
If you would like to upskill your employees, have a look at our new training catalogue with special offers for development of facilitation and creative skills of your team members. We adapt the offer to your needs and language preferences (EN, FR, LU, DE). Download the catalogue here Contact Magdalena for more details: magdalena@artsquarelab.net
We welcome Ursula to our team!
It is important for us to collaborate with young entrepreneurs especially with social entrepreneurs! This is why we are very happy to host Ursula as an intern for next months and hope we will learn from each other! This is what she says:” I’m a second-year student of a BTS Gestionnaire en Commerce et marketing […]
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: http://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 […]