Daphne Channa Horn | Glass Explorer | @ikbendaf
Daphne is a passionate photographer from the Netherlands. First she studied dentistry and work a few years as a dentist. After she realized that dentist wasn’t the work she was passionate about she started the Photography Academy and became a documentary photographer.

In this lecture she talked about her experience with the Google Glass and how she became a “Glass Explorer”

So, first she talked about how the Glass is started, it began with a project “Project Glass, where the toughs behind Glass where free your hands” Sergay Brin. His vision when he started Google 15 year ago, was that you wouldn’t have a search query at all but that the information is come to you. Daphne said that he believes in wearable computers within Google X.

More about the Glass:

You can’t use a Glass without a Nexus Tablet or Smartphone, that means that the Glass is not a standalone device.
“I wear the Glass for six hours a day” said Daphne, but the Glass has a battery for like 3 hours. So she have to charge it. She thinks that the Glass will cost around the 200/300 euros.

The Glass is a visual layer before the reality. You can see it as a transparent second screen. The job as an explorer is not to sight a contract where everything is secret. It’s more that Daphne have to talk about here experiences and share that with others.

Her opinion about the Glass:

“It may friendlier”

She is careful how to use the Glass because in other countries, you don’t want to share the pictures because of privacy reasons. Where it is possible to bring people in a complex or dangerous situation.

“Glasshole” someone you don’t like with a Glass.

“From surveillance to sousveillance” more camera’s on people than there are in the environment.

Question: Has the Google Glass changed you as a Photographer?

“It is more that I am a Glass Explorer” said Daphne. She got more connections for example with André Kuipers. People see her as someone who is special… when she is walking in stores people are reacting in a friendlier way than when she don’t use the Glass. Maybe that is a sort of status and they are scared of the idea that she can capture everything without knowing.

But if the Glass her changed in a way she takes pictures, she don’t know for sure. Now, she takes more snapshots of everyday things than before. When she is in her house, at the kitchen or drinking a coffee. “I learn more about myself” said Daphne.

My conclusion
It a nice wearable to have. I think you can capture more special moments in a faster way. I definitely should use the Glass when I do trendresearch. Because people don’t know if you take a picture of movie clip. But in my personal life it would be very distracting. I am sensitive for information. I think when I am wearing the Glass I only look at the second screen and don’t see what’s happens in the real world. I hope that Google Glass comes up with special functions that will helps people in their everyday life.

Vanessa de Groot

She know the trends in the global market, what worked and doesn’t and create therefore many valuable concepts.

Today we’ve got a lecture of a very ambitious woman her name is Vanessa de Groot. Vanessa studied ‘Advertising’ at the Willem the Kooning institute. After her graduation, she didn’t wanted to work in the advertising industry. I think a strong point is that she took knowledge from different disciplines like design, research methodology but also Photography, what makes her work like a teacher on different educations. After her work as teacher she was education manager of CMD in the times that is was part of the WDKA. When CMD moved to the university of applied sciences, Vanessa was in for a new adventure. She worked for W! games and Deloitte in the Netherlands but it didn’t fulfill her life. In 2009 she makes a radical change, she gave up her job,house and social life because she wanted to work in China. And that took her on a journey of learning how other cultures work and live. It gave her ‘eye openers’ how the people work there and turn her in an other kind of person. In her lecture she explain some points that told us more about how she worked there and gave us some insight how she tackle things and get things done. It was one of the most inspiring lecture’s i’ve heart for so far. I summarized the things that I will keep in mind.

What is her point of view of innovation? 

– Intern: how they drive innovation in their company and process.

– Extern: how they innovate in product development.

About China

 “Asia is a network culture where they say on everything “yes””

The big capitals of China are changing they move to a more design world. We know that they have their “great fire wall” with the restrictions of the internet like Google and Facebook. But they made their own variation of these platforms. And they wanna also improve it!
Other development in culture is that borders are open so the Chinese people are free to travel.

What differences we’ve got with the Chinese

– Other design perspective (everything has to be centered)
– Government is most important
– Everything is arranged last-minute (so don’t be a control freak)
– For the relation with your partner u have to visit the fabrics ( To important points are service provision and offers convenience)

“Innovation in China is looking at other brands”
they’ve got a copy culture and want to improve the products they make.

How Venessa works

Stay Curious:
ask yourself questions like why  I doing this? Why have we chosen for this way?

Play:
try to be different in the way that you don’t  take things too serious. It’s a pity if you lose your the flair in your job. So be yourself!

Suspend Judgement:
first learn to know someone before you judge.

Question assumptions:
why is there an assumption, look beyond that.

Embrace your fear:
try to move yourself to the next level don’t be scared.

Daydream:
follow your dream.

Draw and scribble:
don’t dive immediately behind your laptop. First give your imagination the change and make some sketches from that. Filter your ideas and sketch again. As result your mind stays open.

Challenge yourself:
try to put yourself higher that you think you can.
“A person who never made a mistake never tried something new”

Try something new:
like food

Accept failures:
for example how they found out Coca-Cola.

Record your inspirations:
capture everything with a dummy or blog.

Cultivate your ideas:
let your idea grow (for example, give it a color)

See another angle:
out of the box thinking

Take risks:
try to do something you never did before.

Perseverance:
hold on what you are doing.

Stop reasoning and waiting to understand:
sometimes you don’t understand it, accept it and go on. Because otherwise you can’t be happy with yourself.

Reinvent yourself:
that said enough.

Workshop
“Why not use the brainstorm room?”