The archeology of me

In 1898 my grandfather was born in the northern part of the Netherlands, called Fryslân, where I still live. As a late addition to a late addition, I set foot on our planet in 1977. In a left-wing family and interested in building (I was a LEGO kid) and technology I chose for studying Industrial Design in stead of my first love Architecture at Delft University. Within this combination of creativity and technology I developed myself as a designer as well as a person and inhabitant of this planet.

With the prospect of my master’s degree and having twin daughters on the way, I got myself a teaching position in interaction design. I evolved myself in the field of education, design and later management and leadership. After 20 years of being a formal manager and director at a vocational training institute and universities for applied science and recovering from rectal cancer, in the summer of 2026 I chose to switch to a position as lecturer and researcher in de the field of systemic design and complexity in the social and spatial domain at NHL Stenden university and Hanze university.

Looking at the future I would like to co-create groundbreaking education and design research through collective discovery, working our way towards a meaningful purpose and society.