Participate in the 8th COMPACT version of Value Creation through Experience , Executive course. Key note speakers Carl Rohde, Coolhunter and director of Science of the Time. Prof. Chris Voss London Business School, Desirée Struijk Senta, Dr.Kim van der Leest Warm With Senses, André Wiringa Performance Solutions, Mark William Hansen Lego Company, and many others. ” I visit frequently refreshing courses for professors at Harvard or ISE . This is way way better, more profound, way more relevant content, the selection of speakers is 10 times as better. This is really different” Workshop facilitated by Steven Olthof, Ed Peelen, Anna Snel en Albert Boswijk. For more information contact us. Adjusted compact programme follows soon, adjusted course fee € 2850.Original programme ; programma barcelona_2009-5.pdf

We just made it. Without serious damage we moved into the new year. It did not look very exceptional but I had my serious reservations. Our trust has been violated in almost every thinkable way. We sort of blindly trusted to move into a new year without too much difficulties. But now almost nothing is sure anymore. To count on something blindly is psychological a very interesting phenomenon and specifically in this year deserves our attention. There is no better word then the english word faith. Faith will be the key word for 2009 and thereafter. This year is the year of the forced transformation after the incredible Demasqué. After the deluge this year will also be the year of no return.(further reading in dutch)

Amsterdam is enriched by a new temporary club and night restaurant. At the family and friends evening we experienced “Trouw Amsterdam”. Although lots of work still needs to be done, the place feels good and the major characteristics of the building are being preserved. In the middle of the large hall a staircase lead to a kind of tribune and  break the club into the club- and restaurant part. A very courageous  and inventive solution. Going to the cellar and exposition space you imagine to be on a big ship like the titanic. All friends were happy with the environment. It does not remind the least of Post CS and that is a compliment to the creators of Trouw Amsterdam. It will certainly beat the success of 11.Friday will be the first Club evening.

Almost directly after the closing of the location Post CS on the Oosterdokskade, the remaining inventory was moved to the old printfactory of Trouw. Due to delay with contracts and permits,they could only recently refurbish part of the building.Part of the team of former 11 will start in the old Trouw building a new club annex restaurant and exposition space. The name: Trouw Amsterdam. Next week friday the first club evening is planned.It will be a rough half finshed space where the inkt spots on the doors and floors will remind you of the history of the building. “There is still a lot to do, everything will remain as much as possible in the original state. The importance is the music, the people and the streetfood”, says  Olaf Boswijk, just as in 11 responsible for the programming and now also co-entrepreneur. For programme see www.trouwamsterdam.nl See also 3v12vpro

Readers of this site will be familiar with the emergence and proliferation of a new form of value creation, peer production (as first defined by Yochai Benkler), in which communities of volunteers (but also in fact mostly paid creators and programmers once a project is successfull) create ‘(open) content’ or ‘(free) software, that is usable and accessible by everybody. Typical for peer production is that the ‘producers’ create ‘products’  (with both concepts being essentially misleading in this case!) in such a form that they form a commons which can be used and modified by others, who return it improved to the same common pool. These producers can be volunteers or paid programmers or authors, often both operating as a cooperative ecology between communities and  the companies that create market-based spin-offs from that same commons. As a typical example, Linux and its derivatives come to mind, which have created a $36 billion economy.
It is very tempting to limit such emergence to the field of ‘immaterial’ production, but we want to show in this article that the same method of production that has come to dominate the world of open source software and freely available (often ‘user-generated’) content on the internet, is now also deeply influencing the way we think about designing and even ‘making’ things.Before we describe this emergence, a few definitions as well as a basic explanation of why the peer production makes so much sense.