The first edition of the Pop-up School has taken place and can certainly be called a successful pilot since requests for a new edition have been coming in from several sides. You can read up on the first edition through a short summary now, watch a video and come back after the summer break for a more extensive report. Any news about
upcoming editions will be added as soon as we have more information.
The Pop-up School is a temporary school where committed individuals explore challenging case studies in depth, and together look for surprising solutions and possibilities from the standpoint of opportunity. We do so together with students, teachers, experts, and stakeholders who directly benefit from creative and innovative solutions. Through diversity we try to establish meaningful activities in a sustainable society. Every person is unique! And we like to keep it that way. Our core drive is our eagerness to learn. We take control, and use everybody’s expertise and network. We are not afraid to take the plunge or to surprise.
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The Pop-up School takes place at a special, inspiring location, where we will be able to fully focus on a socially relevant theme. The Pop-up School makes use of the method of Design Thinking. The design phase starts by defining the challenge and our interest and personal connection to the topic. We research the opportunities and possibilities in the surrounding context. By interpretation, ideation, and focus we make choices, which we will work out in a concept. Application of the concept allows for feedback and teaches us in what way the suggested solutions provide changes for the future. The power of cooperation brings us further.
Many roads lead to Rome. Discover that not only the goal, but also the road itself will enrich you. With us you are in good company. Working together with students from different disciplines, who bring in a fresh perspective, sharing ideas with professionals who want to move forward in their field, and diving into the special atmosphere we create together. The Pop-up School will help find creative solutions for a socially relevant theme.
Our current society is tilting. Existing models and organizations ask for renovation. The Pop-up School can respond to this and investigate the problem, showing opportunities with applicable solutions. What question keeps you up at night? Let us know.
The personal working process of the Pop-up-School.
The first Pop-up School is a wrap and was focused on the theme:
Senior citizens have a built up a broad experience and expertise and like to employ their talents for the good of other people and society. We have explored the different ways in which their knowledge and experience can be put to good us to form new connections between people. Together we tried to find inspiration to create a pleasant and rich environment in which we all can thrive.
Diversity is the power of the Pop-up School. Talents come and go. Also in our team. The core team of the Pop-up School is just as diverse and dynamic as the problems itself which concern us socially and culturally. The society is in constant motion like a living organism, and it’s continuously changing whilst the experience and knowledge is guarded. Through diversity of contributors, from students to teachers and from juniors to seniors, we have large interfaces and affinity with all our target groups. This implies that an enormous relevant network can be used when necessary in new cases.