My name is Nick. Find a chronological glimpse of me in 20 bullets down here:
- Did graphic design school in my teens.
- Got interested in societal issues.
- Kept studying for another design degree.
- Told teacher I will leave to study sociology after freshmen year.
- Teacher disagreed.
- Decided to stay and got internship at my favorite design studio.
- Got offered a job afterwards and accepted it.
- Realized halfway in it’s too commercial for me.
- Design study and interests in societal issues now really clicked.
- Finished design studies and got into social design.
- Worked on several cool projects with steep learning curve.
- Met the love of my life.
- Social design studio went bankrupt.
- Decided to switch gears and become civil servant.
- Worked on various citizen engagement.
- Meanwhile, tried several new things like improv theater.
- Complexity science started making sense.
- Got into supporting social entrepreneurs in NL.
- Asked my Taiwanese girlfriend to marry me. She said yes.
- Decided to join Perspectivity.
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Expertise
- Citizen engagement
- Complexity
- Innovation
- Placemaking
- Social design
Examples of what I do
What will happen with my input?
Asking input from citizens can be done in a more democratic way. Give them more interpretation power, so you can work more objectively and inclusive as a civil servant. I tell about this new participatory phenomenon in this article.