A world where we no longer systematically cross planetary boundaries. A world where biodiversity and all that is more-than-human can grow, bloom, and buzz. A world where our connections with each other, with life, and with the Earth are central. On March 12, during the Week of the Circular Economy, the LDE Centre for Sustainability will take you to this regenerative future with a workshop and talk at BlueCity.
This event is organized by LDE Center for Sustainability
Endless growth and progress, human centrality, were long considered a given. But it is high time to say goodbye to these promises of modernity. Our climate and biodiversity are at risk, political and social crises keep on arising. Reducing our footprint in the world while optimizing the existing, is no longer enough. We need innovative approaches that actively strive to restore the balance between humans and Earth. Regeneration.
Workshop and Lecture
Regeneration requires a change of mindset and values. On March 21, we will look through new, regenerative lenses. Bas van den Berg (The Hague University of Applied Sciences) and Lija and Rodolfo Groenewoud - van Vliet (In4Art) will guide you through ‘generative thinking’. They will explain how creative thinkers, artists, and designers can help overcome mental boundaries and show how we can think and innovate differently. Join the ‘Regenerative Lens’ Workshop. Meet experts working on a regenerative society. Be inspired by practical stories from artists and entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), who have worked together on just innovations.
Coffee, lunch and a tour in the BlueCity Lab
Expand your network, stick around afterwards and spar with Bas van den Berg and the other participants. You are welcome to stay for lunch (at your own expense) at BlueCity - please indicate it in the registration process. In the afternoon there will be a (free) tour of Blue City Lab with its four lab spaces, which you are welcome to join.
Program
9.00 Walk-in
9.30-10.30 Workshop ‘Regenerative lens’ with Bas van den Berg (HHS)
10.30-11.00 ‘Creation meets Industry’ with Lija & Rodolfo Groenewoud - van Vliet (in4art)
11.00-11.30 Networking & coffee
Language: English
About the speakers:
Bas van den Berg is associate lector ‘Learn for Regeneration’ at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Mission Zero centre of expertise that he helped setting up. He is also member of The Hague Climate Council and co-founder of the School of Regenerative Educators. Bas is an active writer of both academic and fictional work. This year, he is publishing his first novel #DeDrakeninMij as the first of a planned triology about the regenerative perspective. In this book he explores loss, grief, and pain. https://dezwijger.nl/programma/de-draken-in-mij Together with Dr. Mieke Lopes Cardozo (UvA) and Dr. Koen Wessels, he is publishing The Art of Regenerative Educatorship with the University of Amsterdam Press
Lija and Rodolfo Groenewoud - van Vliet are the co-founders of In4Art, an independent institute pioneering art-driven innovation since 2015. After working as innovation managers and business developers for knowledge institutes, start-ups and corporates, they dedicated themselves to guiding curiosity and creating space for experimentation that drives responsible change. As innovation orchestrators, they have developed deep practice-based insights from managing over 50 international experimental projects across AI, robotics, and materials research. Through their distinctive methodology of bridging artistic, technical and business perspectives, they connect and facilitate collaborations between art, science, technology, and industry across Europe, translating complex innovation dynamics into practical frameworks to advance systemic innovation.
This event is organized by LDE Center for Sustainability
LDE Center for Sustainability (LDE CfS) stimulates knowledge dissemination and exchange, and transdisciplinary cooperation around the major challenges that lie ahead of us our transition to sustainability. More information here: https://www.centre-for-sustainability.nl/home
