PEOPLE | In the last week of 2011, we wrapped up the experience called the THNK pilot. And what an experience it was! The Challenge (the actual project we worked on during the ...

BOOKS | From the discovery of gases lighter than air that lifted the minds of the world’s first balloonists, to the invention of a safety lamp that saved coal miners’ lives, and shed ...

NEWS | Designers, programmers, researchers, writers, planners, managers working together to solve a slightly wicked problem. How to present THNK to the world. Our new dynamic visual identity and website are a true ...

INITIATIVES | THNK’s Creative Leadership Program is a work in progess. That’s why we welcomed a group of eleven participants at De Waag in Amsterdam for a THNKLab – a prototype of our ...

TAKE A STAND | Yes, the potential to become a truly creative leader does depend to some extent on the unique combination of personal assets that an individual is bringing to the table—intelligence, ...

TAKE A STAND | Only a short while ago, strategy and planning was king. Forecasting, and consistently anticipating smart bets, generally created the power sources within organizations. The future of a business (or ...

INITIATIVES | THNKLab ‘Design Democracy’: “We live in a time of change, but also through a change of time”

“When you want to increase innovation, build your own greenhouse.” This opening statement suited ...

PRESS RELEASE |

Amsterdam, 24 September 2010

Gap between politicians and citizens easy to bridge THNKLab experiment offers surprising solutions

In merely four hours, four teams of experienced professionals and visitors to the Amsterdam PICNIC ...

PEOPLE | John Maeda is all about simplifying the complex, which is becoming more and more important because of our technology-based culture and our increasingly interconnected world. There is an interesting paradox here: the ...

RESEARCH | The need for sustainable urbanization is a major—and ever increasing—challenge of our time. Many conventional and less conventional plans have been designed in order to experiment with tackling some of the ...

RESEARCH | Can you relate to the feeling that people that are diagnosed with mental disorders are sometimes all the more inspiring to be around? Of course there’s a scale of eccentricity, but ...

BOOKS | The Opposable Mind: How successful leaders win through integrative thinking, by Roger Martin (Harvard: 2007).

Roger Martin is one of our great sources of inspiration at THNK. In this book, the Integrative ...