Notes from work
and curiosity.
Reports, AI, organisations and hands-on experience. I collect materials and explore connections between technology, people, places and nature.
Reports & market signals
Changes in business, work and everyday choices. Reports, their context and my own reflections.
2018 → 2025
The future of work
WEF 2018 and 2025: what the forecasts say, what they don’t measure and why they’re worth reading side by side.
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Berry — how generations learn to live
BERRY’s KONSUMER 2026: how growing up in different worlds shapes everyday habits — and what we share.
Read more →Mintel 2027
Mintel — making everyday life easier
Mintel 2027: less effort, more control — and a useful role for brands in everyday life.
Read more →Local futures
Fab City — local futures
Design, technology and local production: how knowledge can travel globally while making happens closer to people.
Read more →AI & work
MIT — working with technology
AI changes tasks. Organisation, pay and workers’ influence shape whether it also creates better work.
Read more →Places, people, technology
Experience from building and looking after places. Hospitality, on-site work and observations of the people who use them.
What happens between the homes
Small homes, terraces and shared spaces. Working on the coastal Basecamp IJmuiden site.
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Looking after a place with history
Le Moulin de la Tuilerie: maintenance, renovation and welcoming guests in one place.
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One system, different ways of living
From the workshop to a specific place. Notes from assembling and finishing modular homes.
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Understanding a home from the inside
Working on structures, sealing and insulation. Getting to know a home through workshop practice and construction details.
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Bohdi Beach — building a beach bar
Helping assemble a beach bar: hands-on work, materials and a different rhythm of everyday life.
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Wageningen — light that shapes plants
Wageningen, vertical farms and observations from a study visit.
Read more →Things I find worth exploring
Other people’s work that inspires my own. Research, experiments, people and initiatives looking for better ways to live, create and work together.
SPACE10 / The Growroom
An experimental research lab in Copenhagen and its locally fabricated urban garden. SPACE10 closed in 2023; its ideas are still worth exploring.
Land Art Generator
Public art that presents renewable energy infrastructure as a shared cultural and spatial experience.
Fab Lab Barcelona
A meeting point for open technology, distributed design, civic experiments and the future of making.
Atelier LUMA
A design lab working with local materials, natural systems and regional knowledge.
WikiHouse
An open-source building system exploring how to make homes with accessible digital fabrication methods.
FarmBot
CNC-inspired open-source robotics for gardening, growing food and hands-on technical education.
ROMI / Robotics for Microfarms
An open agricultural robotics research project designed around the needs of small organic farms.
Valldaura Self-Sufficiency Labs
A living experiment bringing together local food, forestry, materials, energy and fabrication.
GREEN LAB London
Interdisciplinary exploration of the regenerative economy, biodesign and future food systems.
Buurtschap te Veld
A Dutch neighbourhood exploring new approaches to housing, community and shared green space.
Cooperatives Europe
A map of European organisations developing democratic ownership and cooperative economic models.
Opendesk
An early, influential experiment in openly shared furniture design and local CNC production.
Materiom / Material Cultures
Recipes, research and design methods connecting natural resources with a less extractive material culture.
Vivihouse
A modular timber building system combining ecological materials, shared knowledge and the possibility to build and adapt spaces together.
Minitopia
A Dutch living lab exploring flexible homes, shared spaces and new ways of building and living together.
MIT Media Lab
An interdisciplinary research lab exploring how design, technology and experimentation can turn ideas into new applications with a positive impact on society.
Si Design Hub / Systemic Design
The meeting point of social systems, creative possibilities and productive tension between structure and freedom.
Workaway
A platform connecting travellers and hosts through cultural exchange, practical help and learning from everyday life together.
Questions take us further.
A shared collection of analysis, field notes and hands-on experience. I also want to develop communication case studies here — from the problem and decisions to the lessons learned.
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