In the past couple of months IO ALUMNI has been involved in some great design oriented community events…slowly gaining momentum as the central point for all Delft Design related activities.

In 2010-11 we have enjoyed more offline meetings than ever before!

 *A dialogue House event @ ABN-AMRO with several relevant Alumni speakers

*A successful Alumni day @ our faculty

*A steady flow of Design Mixers (Borrels with content @ design agencies of Alumni)

 

 On the 10^th of March there was a design-mixer @ SPARK industrial design in R’dam…Talking about Crowd sourcing and Concepting

On the 27th of April there was a design-mixer @ Muzus in the Hague

Talking and experiencing the MUZUS User-centered design approach

On June the 1st ioalumni participated in the organisation of a presentation by Bart Veldhuizen, community manager Shapeways Europe, at the Van der Grinten hall at the faculty, organised by kiviniria/io.

On the 23rd of June there were design-mixer @ SunIdee in Amsterdam

Giving the participants a good idea about consumer insights

 

 *A growing Alumni-student coaching program.

 a special coach event has been organized@ the faculty where a workshop on coaching was given by Rick Schiffenstein. Interested? Check out the coaching tab on the website.

*A book launch at the faculty where the first print was presented to the Alumni.

( "From Floating Wheelchairs to Moving Car Parks; a collection of 35 experience-driven design projects")

*Re-Links with BNO Romeo Delta events & KIVI NIRIA engineering platform

Endorsing and linking to their events

*interviews on ALUMNI TV. Jeroen van Erp and Laurens van der Acker… more to follow

*New ALUMNI members joining and reinforcing our efforts … Sandra Wagemans 

* the LinkedIn group is growing fast with almost 1000 members from just 200 some two years ago. If you are not yet a member Check out: http://linkd.in/jToPp7

 

All these activities attract an engaging group of Alumni who are adding to their common story every time they meet!

 

We hope that 2011-12 is going to be even more connected! IO ALUMNI is always on the lookout for people who want to add their unique perspective to our activities… so if have a passion for getting interesting people together contact us on info@ioalumni.nl

 

When you read this some new activities are already being planned for September and beyond. Be sure to check our website (www.ioalumni.nl), our LinkedIn group and our Facebook group to be kept up to date!