The other day a friend of mine, Prananda Luffiansyah, who happened to be a lecturer in the Product Design Department of ITB, sort of invited me to give a lecture on Engineering for Designers. It was such an honour for me, mainly because there have always been things I was thinking about, but have Read More …
Category: Talks&Ideas
Entrepreneurship 101
Recently I’ve been asked to give short introduction classes on enterpreneurship to young undergraduates in the engineering field. Thought I’d share the slides here, in case anyone wants to access the. However I have tailored the slides to include mainly study cases that are relevant for environmental engineering majors, if anyone is interested in other type of Read More …
Osthang Project in Darmstadt, Germany
While visiting Darmstadt this June 2016, I was lucky to visit the remains of the Osthang Project built in 2014. The Osthang Project – International Summer School and Festival for Future Modes of Living Together took place in summer 2014 on the underused plot of the Osthang, it brought together knowledge and experience from architecture, Read More …
Falling in Love with Chimamanda
The world works in mysterious ways they say, and it is always mesmerising how sometimes those words feel true in the most random of times. During my visit to Schloss Templehof close to Stuttgart this year for instance, I never thought I would be making so many good friends. I came without expecting anything but Read More …
Equal justice for all
In this powerful and personal talk, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson talks about the justice system in the USA. The US has now the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with 2.3 million people in jail (that’s around the same population as the country Qatar). One out of three black men between the Read More …
Capitalism will eat up democracy?