Building Creative Capacity....

Sustainable & Societal Challenges

In the Netherlands and Europe, the pressure of the major challenges in the field of sustainability and solidarity is increasingly tangible. Complex challenges require transformations in how we live, work and think. The development of technological solutions is not enough, because these transformations also require social and cultural adjustments.

The main focus of designers is always user centered, and this is very powerfull in bottom-up changes. Interdisciplinary design is needed to find integrated solutions from different perspectives and sectors. Inspiring and with support for the necessary behavioural changes.

Designers with an innovative project idea that connects different disciplines can submit this for support from the EDUventure foundation. We guide the initiator with the project plan, finding funding and implementation. By supporting leading projects by interdisciplinary designers, we contribute effectively to social innovation.

Accelerating Innovation

Innovative power accelerates through the combination of research power and imagination. It is therefore necessary to link science to design, art and culture. By building bridges between disciplines and aiming for broad participation, we arrive at feasible and local solutions. Designers play an essential role in this, because they fulfil a connecting role in co-design processes and shape the results thereof, so that the transformations become attractive, tangible and accessible.

The EDUventure Foundation brings together architects, designers, artists, engineers and behavioral scientists to tackle social issues. With extensive experience in facilitating co-creation, we optimally organize each project, tailored to the team and the participants.

Active projects that don't get going or get stuck? We analyse the cause and provide a suitable approach so that all parties work together motivated and productive again. Together we discover new models to tackle complex challenges.

Building Creative Capacity

Social transitions require thinking power and making power, fed by data and creativity. Due to increasing digital infrastructures, more and more data is becoming available, but increasing creative capacity still needs impulse and empowerment.

Research shows that there are many barriers to creative thinking. Uncertainty and pressure to perform are the causes, because it takes resilience and courage to let go of familiar frameworks and introduce unconventional points of view. In addition, the course of the creative process can be erratic and uncertain. Lack of control can lead to declining motivation.

We increase the creative capacity in society through research, workshops, training and coaching. The focus here is on understanding the barriers and finding personalised solutions. In this way, the quality of the creative process and the output can improve.

Our training program is based on years of experience in professionalizing the creative sector. In addition, we collaborate on process improvements in an international context to increase creative capacity.