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Designlab hosts first SDG DataViz Camp

‘It was a dream of mine to organise a data camp’

In the DesignLab, 36 participants from all over the world recently started working on data visualization. Organised by the UT and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the SDG DataViz Camp allows participants to join workshops, listen to speakers and work on their assigned challenge, connected to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), over the course of a week.
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Stelarc

The ‘man with three ears’ in Twente

Stelarc is a world famous artist and a legend in his own right. For decades he’s been pushing the limits of a human body. He swallowed a ‘Stomach Sculpture’ that could have killed him. He grew a third ear on his arm. Now he is in Enschede and will give a talk at the UT tomorrow.
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DesignLab works with Sheltersuit

Urban Safety Kit to protect the homeless

Sheltersuit is a waterproof and windproof coat which can be transformed into a sleeping bag for refugees and homeless. The creation with origins in Enschede is now going to receive an upgrade – with the help of the UT’s DesignLab.
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‘Fix Your Bike’: Adjusting to the cycling lifestyle

Over twenty broken bikes and students eager to repair them filled the DesignLab, during yesterday’s ‘Fix Your Bike’ workshop. We wandered around to find out how international students are adjusting to their new cycling lifestyle and get the organizer’s tips on how to deal with damaged bikes.
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Spirituality meets technology

Students at DesignLab helped to develop a meditation suit, aiming to create a personalized meditation experience. The suit was showcased yesterday in the symposium on Enlightenment Through Light.
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Creathon: new phase of Living Smart Campus

The third phase of the Living Smart Campus (LSC) programme will kick off with a Creathon event on the 25th of April. This phase will bring a few changes, including a larger involvement of UT students who will now be able to conduct their thesis’ projects within the programme.
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‘Policies exist, attitudes have yet to follow’

Having a gender policy is one thing, but having the attitude to have a more equal workforce is another. The ‘Is he or she?’ workshop at the DesignLab last Friday aimed to come up with solutions to solidify company policy on gender equality in the workspace.
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UT students’ fight for gender equality

‘Is He or She?’ That is the name of an event held on Friday in DesignLab. This brainstorm is organized by UT students to support the HeForShe campaign by UN Women and to galvanize corporate diversity.
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‘We start by changing the mindset’

A dozen of UT-students with backgrounds in Engineering, Industrial Design and Business began building two plastic recycling machines a few months ago. Now functional, the machines were disclosed during an inauguration party held in the DesignLab last night.
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Benefits and dangers of digital democracy

Two weeks before the municipal elections and the Sleepwet referendum in the Netherlands, the UT and the Rathenau Instituut came together to give the ‘Digital Democracy’ workshop, held yesterday in the DesignLab.
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SpaceSociety hosts hackathon with NASA

The new UT association SpaceSociety will collaborate with NASA to host a two-day hackathon in DesignLab at the end of May. The event is open for about eighty participants. ‘Our efforts can help to make the concept of space more tangible.’
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DesignLab bridges the gap

Minimizing the number of fatalities and injuries in traffic is not just a key concern for the police and the Public Prosecution Service (OM); countless other parties are involved as well. Jeroen van Leeuwen, head of Policy and Strategy at Parket CVOM, believes that DesignLab managed to bring all these parties together and help them reach new insights.
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