A new year, new opportunities, fresh perspectives!
We wish you creative flow, positive energy, growth and wakefulness in 2018! While discovering, innovating, co-creating the new. From the heart, Liesbeth & the co-creation team
read moreOther world, this world
Sometimes it is important to see the world in a new light. To help us imagine how and what the future might be like, it is possible to use Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) to get a sense of new possibilities. VR has a dreamlike quality, getting into another zone, discovering what is in there, sometimes hidden, sometimes like a game. Of course, these zones do not come from nowhere, they have been created and programmed, to trick our minds into an illusion that helps us see a different kind of reality. However, the headset largely isolates you from the real world. Augmented...
read moreCitizen City – empower to co-create future cities
At FreeUp, we do quite some work with and for city governments. More and more cities face challenges that can not be solved in isolation. There is a need for engaging with society to create our cities’ futures. To find ways to tackle the challenges, cooperation is needed, not only with businesses and knowledge parters, but especially also with citizens. “Successful cities will be designed around the needs and desires of increasingly empowered and enabled citizens – who are expecting personalized services from the organisations that serve them.” (Future Agenda) FreeUp is involved in an...
read moreVisual storytelling for ‘testing the future’
In strategic projects, we try to make a bridge from now to a desirable future. The bridge tends to consist of ideas and concepts on how to get to that future. Often we call this a roadmap. Obviously, in a commercial context, it is key to involve customers in the making of a roadmap. Especially in business-to-business, you would like them to continue to be your customers in the future. Customer conversations can be carried out to explore their emerging needs and the future challenges they foresee. This will give you insight into your potential future business with them. Through a creative...
read more‘Mash Up’ to strengthen the National Food Agenda
During a ‘Mash Up’ Meeting on Thursday April 20th representatives of local, regional and national governments joined up with Food Valley NL and various agrifood companies to strengthen the National Food Agenda. FreeUp helped to develop and execute the process for this Mash Up, in such a way that the participants, coming from different backgrounds, could share, explore and develop insights effectively in quite a short time. The use of creative tools, designed for the event, helped to bring thoughts and ideas together. Sacha Kramer was the process lead and she also did the overall facilitation...
read moreGame-changing teams for transformational change
Not everyone is a game changer but everyone can make a game-changing contribution. FreeUp’s co-creation team includes all game-changing roles, including the key role of the “Play Maker”. Here is a summary of an inspiring report commissioned by eg.1: “The DNA of a game-changing team”. Many organisations are driving their vision through innovation, often in quite a controlled way, by investing in innovation hubs, labs, processes and programmes. However, in order to survive and succeed over the long-term, organisations must consider the challenge of re-defining themselves and the ways in...
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