Lectures
At the TU/e & Design Academy

This year I followed 3 lecture of which one was at the Design Academy. The founder of the company Tinqwise told about his company in e-learning solutions for companies. In a playful way he created games specified for certain companies in order to keep their knowledge up to date. Sometimes their games were too successful, making the personal only playing this game during working hours. I was very inspirational to see someone talk about his vision and how he set this whole company up by himself. Later I also want to be in the same position as he is in. You start with a good opportunity for companies and from this grow as a company yourself.

At the TU/e I followed the lecture: "Happiness, the interplay between genes and environment". It wasn’t really what I expected since a researcher just gave graph after graph and data after data after researching this subject for about 15 years. Although some of the information was interesting, I not sure if I’m able to use it as a designer.

The other lecture was about how Selfies and being acknowledge by others, are related to each other. This lecture was very interesting and also let the audience debate about the discussion. I could implement it in my vision because since this lecture I better understood the current movements in society. It was about how we as people became products ourselves that we like to sell to others. Facebook is our media to promote how well we are doing and getting likes on Facebook has become almost more important the enjoying the activity itself. A lot of people blame Facebook for this but a student made a smart remark that apparently we need this form of sharing our experiences, otherwise I wouldn’t be so popular. So it isn’t Facebook that changed people, but the changing people needed Facebook.