THOUGHTLEADERS

By: Thomas Brigger
  • Summary

  • Learning is an honest and personal act of steadily mixing other peoples’ knowledge and experiences with one’s own. In this podcasts we listen to challenging ideas about everything that could or should be called education. It is a sincere exchange of Thomas Brigger, a Higher Education consultant and design thinking expert, with interesting individuals from all over the world and with a variety of professional backgrounds.   A small, but needed personal step to actively challenge the way we learn for all of us.
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Episodes
  • HALEH MORAVEJ (X)
    Feb 24 2022

    Today, you and I will listen to Haleh Moravej, a leading thinker and disruptor in the food education scene. Her "fearless-doing" approach has gotten her an honorary fellowship with the British Science Association.

    She is the founder of MetMunch, a hospitality project in university, inviting and forcing multiple faculties and students to collaborate and research the future of work, food and sustainability.


    About our conversation:


    To start off, Haleh gives us an insight in how she started in the higher education sector and how she became an accidental academic. (1:56 minutes)

    In the second block we are talking about how to break up fixed identities and organisational processes. Haleh proposes blurring lines and accessing high quality leadership. (3:51 minutes)

     

    In block three Haleh talks about sustainable food as a universal language and how it has brought her to becoming the founder of MetMunch. (13:21 minutes)

    We close our exchange with a very personal approach to s.m.a.r.t. Education. A very interesting and challenging take on contemporary learning. (21:48 minutes)

    Haleh Moravej‘s contribution to our bookclub : (29:00 minutes)


    • No one is too small to make a difference by Greta Thunberg
    • GRIT by Angela Duckworth
    • Louise Bourgeois

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    32 mins
  • PATRICK MORGAN ( IX )
    Jan 29 2022

    Today, we will listen to Patrick Morgan, a leading thinker in the area of learning through the Arts and Illustration. Challenging education has led him to radical modes of practice through new technology from Augmented to Virtual Reality, as well as Artificial Intelligence in Design Thinking.

    He is the founder of FIDA, a  global online platform promoting fashion illustration and drawing around the world, while helping young and upcoming artists to integrate the market.

    Patrick is an advisory consultant to Deloitte in the field of design education and works with the Royal College of Art, Wallpaper* magazine and Tate Modern exploring future learning and critical thinking. 

    About our conversation:

    We start off, defining the importance of Illustration in today's visual world and how it has led Patrick to found FIDA. (1:54 min)
    In the second block we are looking at the digital space, remote teaching and what we should have learned during these last disruptive years. (8:06 min)

     In block three Patrick talks about the integration of the arts into STEM subjects, creating what he calls STEAM. Also, we see what design thinking has to do with all of it. (15:07 min)
    We close our exchange by challenging current education and its recent introduction to the virtual space. Patrick comes up with some interesting ideas on how we can make sure to go to Mars. (24:41 min)

    Patrick Morgan’s contribution to our bookclub: (32:05 min)

    • The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher ( read here )
    • Art as Experience by John Dewey ( read here ) 
    • How To See by David Salle ( read here )

       

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    34 mins
  • INTRODUCTION
    Nov 30 2021

    Let's start with a very short introduction on what or what not the thoughtleaders podcast is about…
    This series is trying to challenge the way we learn. It comes as a sincere exchange with interesting individuals from all over the world and with a variety of professional backgrounds. 

    For more information please check here and don't hesitate to subcribe to my weekly newsletter thoughts & coffee .

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    2 mins

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