How I behave in my everyday life.

On Thursday we went to Germany to visit Essen Zollverein and the Red Dot Museum. In the early morning we took the train direction Essen Haubtbahnhof. First we visit the Ruhr Museum. It was a real museum with things installed behind glass, but I could’t feel the real history of it. Soon, my interest decreased in everything that was displayed. I took some pictures of the mythes we had to visualize and hoped I saw more historic details. I have seen so many things from different times and subjects that I can’t remember what I’ve seen.

I thought we got a tour trough the Red Dot museum. But the school had a wrong reservation so we actually had booked for a tour that brings us in the area that was not public. The tour took all of my energy because the guide gave us so many information about the specific area that I couldn’t focus anymore.

The areas of the mineshaft was better than the museum. But even there I missed the whole experience. I compared this visit with an other kind of tour that I did in England (Dover Castle) where I got that experience from the past. But maybe it depends of the guide, because I heart from the other group that they had a nice tour anyway.

We still had two hours left to visit the RedDot museum. It was nice to see it, but there was a lot of information that passed me. I saw some good improvements on products and nice design objects. But for thinking a little further there was no energy for.

Conclusion about the whole day is dat I think we seen many things that we can connect to our theory of innovation. But in my opinion the goal of the day was a bit sketchy… so people took there own plan but beyond that I had a great day in Essen.

When I start to think about a blog. I was wondering if I had to start to write in English or Dutch, because my English is not very well. But this minor is a sort of international and I want to learn something and share my blog with everyone! So the decision was easy. I’ll give it a try. Start to write in English.

The first week of the minor was a little bit chaotic. I don’t know what to expect. I hoped this first week made something clear. The first day of the minor was a bit hard for me, because I came back from a festival called ‘Into The Great Wide Open’ it was a beautiful experience but with less sleep.

The first day we talked about the exercises we have to do. And the second thing was have to make something from this study area and we’ve got 24 hours to see the first changes. We started with the ‘college room’. First we gave in teams little presentations and you saw everyone had many ideas. But the question is: ‘How do we implement it?’ the difficult part for students like us. Nice to see and to observe. I didn’t have much energy to join the conversation but I observed and let others speak. The conversation continued at Facebook where we make our plans. Student Lucas took the natural leader role, he was the one that came with a ping ping table. Very nice!

So, the study space will get more and more creative. Let the brainstorm begin!

On the picture in our new area: Cathelijne is drinking one of the new healthy smoothies from downstairs. It looks like she enjoys it.