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:)
We are partner in EU supported VOLEM Project
Proud to be part of another important European initiative focused on competences needed for local development! What is needed to build resilient and strong communities where the citizens (including young people) co-create their well-being? As Art Square Lab we will be responsible for the co-design process of competence framework with and for young volunteers. We will also […]
Digital Youth Work conference for SNJ
Last week we were happy to facilitate an international conference “Youth work in digital era” for Service National de la Jeunesse and 70 youth workers from 19 countries ready to get updated about digital and tech challenges and chances that impact their work with young people. Quite a serious topic so even more we tried […]
Focus Group about entrepreneurial skills (of tomorrow!)
As partner in EU-project “Creative and Design Thinking MOOC” Cin Art Square Lab we run three focus groups on entrepreneurial learning with the #entrepreneurs, structures supporting them and educators. We appreciate the different points of views across sectors and will for sure use it to build a content of the online course on Design Thinking and Creative […]
Merry Everything …
It was a great year of service design and learning and we would like to thank all the partners, clients, collaborators and members of Luxembourg Design Thinking Group great experiences in 2020! Let’s charge our batteries in holidays period!
Luxembourg 5G Conference 2019
After last year’s successful collaboration with Digital Luxembourg, this year we had again a chance to animate a participatory part of Luxembourg 5G 2019 conference that took place in European Convention Centre Luxembourg. After the keynotes speeches and panel discussion on main stage, Art Square Lab has invited the participants to the workshops, service design […]
Creativity and Design Thinking MOOC is coming!
Doing not talking! Our ambition to disrupt learning is not only declaration: in next two days we meet our partners of EU funded project “Creativity and Design Thinking MOOC”. Together with cross sectorial partnership with University of Turku, Euro Net (Italy), MSS (Iceland) and Succubus (France) we work on an interactive learning and #gamefication tools to develop entrepreneurial #competences. It means […]
Circular, human, digital, smart… join our meet-up one 15th November
Here we go, as promised: on 15th November, together with Jan Glas we will share our impressions from the Dutch Design Week 2019. We visit annually this optimistic event that keeps up our believe in the problem-solving capabilities of the designers and give us some hints about the current and future’s trends.This year title is: […]
Inspired by Dutch Design Week 2019!
“If not now, then when?” was a title of this year Dutch Design Week 2019 in Eindhoven. We visit annually this fantastic event that keeps up our believe in the problem-solving capabilities of the designers and give us some hints about the current and future’s trends. This year showcase again reminded us about the urgency […]
Luxembourg Gov Jam 2019
More than 50 participants, 10 facilitators, 12 testers, 10 prototypes and even the Minister Marc Hansen visiting Luxembourg Gov Jam this year! Luxembourg can be proud to take part in the Global Jams movement where the citizens and representatives of the administration sit together to co-create together new services. This year’s support of the Ministry […]
Design Thinking in Education during Foire von der Jugendaarbecht/SNJ
Can Design Thinking methodology of creative problem solving be used with young people? Last week we had a chance to discuss it with Youth Workers during the Foire von der Jugendaarbecht organised by Service National de la Jeunesse. Great ambience, interesting talks about the Futures of Education and hopefully a lot of new chances to collaborate! […]
Creativity Camp with Jonk Entrepreneuren
Creative Camp for generating business ideas with Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg at ECG Luxembourg last week, was a good opportunity for us to share the #user-centric mindset with more than 100 young #entrepreneurs. Let’s make sure that the #products and #services that you want to develop address a concrete problem of the #user! Good luck folks! #entrepreneurship#ideas
Luxembourg Gov Jam- registrations open!
Heads up! We are opening the registration for Luxembourg GovJam 2019 hosted by @MinDigital_lu and @Art Square Lab. The location for this year’s Jam is at Belval. Register here: http://bit.ly/2mjYeP9 The Jam will always be the best event in the world for people who want to try out a design-based approach to innovation on services. In […]
Join our workshop for Paperjam: Design-led approach to business- and so what ?
Do the companies really need to embark Design Thinking to enhance better customer experiences? and what can be the Design Thinking impact on business development or change of organisational culture? On 15th of October we are kicking off the workshop (and the discussion) on this topic in Paperjam Club. Register here: https://paperjam.lu/club/event/2019-10-15-design-led-approach-to-busines
Art Square Lab as accredited consultant for Fit4Service
We are proud to get accreditation as consultant for Luxinnovation’s Fit4Service. The program allows the SME’s to improve their customer experience by better understanding the profile of their clients, customer journey and the quality of interaction they have with the products or services offered to them. More info about the financing: https://www.luxinnovation.lu/innovate-in-luxembourg/performance-programmes/fit-4-service/
Luxembourg Gov Jam- Save the date!
*** SAVE THE DATE *** Join us on 19-20th October in Belval for Luxembourg GovJam organised by @MinDigital_LU in partnership with Art Square Lab! More information coming soon on digitalisation.lu#MarcHansen#LuxGovJam#GGovJam#digitalgovernment#publicservices@gouv_lu
Summer Party: Design Thinking Luxembourg Meetup
Last Friday was a hot day! we had a great pleasure to celebrate the 1150 members in Design Thinking Luxembourg Meetup group- this is a great number of innovators sharing their experience, learning from each other and networking! Season 2018/2019 was one of the best seasons (and busiest!) so far with 8 meet-ups and 2 […]
Futures of Education Meetup
How might we create school out of school? How might we sustain curiosity and make learning cool again? Yesterday’s meet up on Futures of Education gathered together more than 40 educators, designers and researchers passionate about lifelong learning, to co-create solutions for educational challenges. In second phase of the project we are going to build […]
What education for what future? – join our meetup!
Ours is a time of transitions. A thousand forces are interacting in our world every day, so it’s more and more difficult to foresee what the next decades will look like – and how could our educational system prepare students for the future, if the possible futures are countless? Last 8 months we have conducted […]
Book review: How to Research Trends
For those who wonder what book to carry in the luggage to your holidays- this is the second recommendation of our team: “How to Research Trends”. Who would not like to predict the future? Here Bianca made a summary for you: