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Tosti Tuesdays

Free tostis and a short ‘Ted’ talk followed by a lively discussion. Those are Tosti Tuesdays alias Tosti Talks organized in and by the DesignLab.

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New art piece ‘SquareWave’ unveiled

‘SquareWave’ is a new unique art piece decorating the DesignLab. The installation, created by Edwin Dertien and Paul Klotz, was unveiled today.

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Wyss-directeur Ingber: 'Durf strategisch te beslissen'

Dat hij de baas is, daar is geen twijfel over mogelijk. Donald Ingber leidt het gerenommeerde Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering van de Harvard University. Een advies aan de UT: ‘Als je in de top league wilt meedoen, moet je strategische beslissen durven nemen.’

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Frank Kresin: Maker of Change

‘I want the DesignLab to play an important role in lives of students and researchers. I want to empower them to become makers of change who realize that they are building the society of the future,’ says Frank Kresin, the new Managing Director of the DesignLab.

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‘Wij verkopen 323 bierflesjes per seconde’

Ramses Dingenouts is senior packaging & identity design manager bij Heineken en verantwoordelijk voor de branding van het biermerk. Hij deelde gisteren zijn kennis tijdens een avondlezing in het DeisgnLab en maakte duidelijk dat een goed productdesign essentieel is.

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Random Drinks and Market of Entrepreneurs

Organizing ‘Random Drinks’ meetings and a ‘Market of Entrepreneurs’: those were some of the plans presented at yesterday’s University Innovation Fellows (UIF) ceremony, where four new trainees were pinned as Stanford UIF fellows.

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RoboTeam klaar voor ontwerppresentatie voetbalrobots

Het RoboTeam Twente presenteert op woensdag 14 december het ontwerp van hun eerste lichting voetbalrobots. Teamleider Ewoud Croll verwacht een interactieve presentatie, met de focus op software.

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UT-studenten innovation fellows Stanford University

Vier UT-studenten zijn door de Amerikaanse Stanford University geselecteerd voor het University Innovation Fellow (UIF)-programma. Ze zetten zich in om de mogelijkheden voor hun medestudenten op het gebied van ondernemerschap en innovatie te verbeteren.

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Innovatie in een oogopslag

. Masterstudenten van de faculteit Behavioural, Management and Social sciences zijn druk bezig geweest met de gebruiksvriendelijkheid van een bestaande website.

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Refugee Entrepreneurs Working at the UT Campus

DesignLab at the University of Twente is currently a home base for aspiring refugee entrepreneurs. Fourteen young Syrian refugees from a pre-startup school Delitelabs will be at the UT until Friday, working on their business ideas. ‘We encourage local students to come to the DesignLab. You will be surprised at the magic that happens when you put together people of different background,’ says Christof Hawle, Director of Delitelabs.

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Living on a tropical island for free

They were living busy lives just like so many others: commuting to work, running from meeting to meeting, building careers. Then one day they decided it was time for a change, sold everything and began travelling the world while working remotely. Today Diana Zwerink-Vermeij and Steven Vermeij, a married couple also known as the Digital Nomadz, gave a lecture at the UT to share some tips on how to live on your own terms.

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'Designers need to see the bigger picture'

'I felt awful after my first assignment as a student of Industrial Design. I thought I was learning only how to make people buy what they don´t need. That is not true, though. You can use design to help others, and so I decided to design for healthcare,' says Ingeborg Griffioen, who held a lecture today at the DesignLab.

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