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ABOUT

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Are you curious for more? Would you like to get in touch? Feel free to contact our lead directly for any questions or inquiries you may have. tikvah@studioblended.com +31 6 42 47 29 69

PURPOSE (IDEOLOGICAL BASE)

Read more about our purpose as a non profit foundation.

MANIFESTO

Read about our core values and the choices we have made about who we are and how we work.

WORK

Read more about our scope of work.

TIKVAH BREIMER (MSc MAEd MSc)

Read a bio and brief CV of our lead, independent senior advisor and teacher trainer.

POOL OF EXTERNAL FREELANCERS

Meet our pool of external freelancers.

TECHNICAL and REGIONAL

Find our spectrum of technical and interdisciplinary fields.

OUR IMPACT and ORIGIN STORY

We come alongside you and partner with you - a content specialist, and coordinator - to ensure your educational curriculum design has the following impact:
1. Effective learning curve for your students/professionals
2. Technical resilience to last up to a decade, so that you can enjoy all the benefits of a mature course/training
3. Human resilience for both you as coordinator during design, development and delivery and for your teaching team as well.

^{‘The more digital our daily activities become, the more we appreciate old-school, analogue alternatives… as counterweights. Not to replace them, but in binary combinations’}
(Den Heijer 2021)

StudioBlended is about the thoughtful integration of face to face and online education.

It is essential though, to begin by ensuring that your entire curriculum design is sound before you start with binary combinations of online and face to face.

Our Studio curated a set of design angles that have become part of our craft and the way we partner with you around a concrete output with optimal impact.

StudioBlended approaches curricula – in the words of our clients - in a fresh, innovative, strategic and sustainable way - instead of muddling through in an ad hoc way.

What makes us unique is that we bridge silos between your (architecture / urban / development / policy / land / water/ climate) content (research, projects), and the body of knowledge and practice of effective curriculum design.

However, we do not tell you what to teach. You don't start from scratch with us. We understand the field you are coming from, and keep an active interest in the abovementioned fields. We dare to ask you really good questions. We bring you cutting edge fresh ideas on possible angles you can take to your content. We take your pedagogical ideas, and amplify and deepen them for your (re)design.

We focus purely on design. You won’t find anything here about didactics. The reason is simple: if you are going to spend time improving the effectiveness of education, we strongly advise you to spend the lion’s share of your attention on the design. An analogy would be that we offer you the right piece of land, in the right location, before you start building. And then leave you the freedom to build.

We look at what makes sense from a longer term perspective, to ensure the resilience of your curriculum design in its simplest form. We call that technical resilience.

Simplicity to us is about true enjoyment of the curriculum design. Enjoyment without the anxiety and stress we so often see or experience ourselves, when we design, develop or deliver courses, training or degrees. We call that human resilience.

Our origin story lies in the deep understanding that technical resilience of your curriculum, and human resilience of teachers/trainers are two sides of the same coin. You will recognise this robust conviction in our entire philosophy and methodology of simplicity by design.

Our work is all bespoke. In principle our lead and independent senior advisor works with you, but whenever relevant, we can draw from our network of professional experts.

We are a European based non profit foundation.

References
A.C. den Heijer 2021. Campus of the future: Managing a matter of solid, liquid and gas. Technical University Delft (TU/D) Research.

We are here especially for you as unique course/training coordinator, to come alongside you and partner with you, as you work on a (architecture / urban / development / policy / land / water / climate) curriculum, so that you can offer effective and resilient education in its simplest form.