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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

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Are you embarking on a season of re-design of your course, degree or (European) program?

Or perhaps, you enter a season in which you envision a new course, or master degree?

Did you run a (European) research program, and are you eager to disseminate it’s outcomes and materials in a MOOC?

Are you looking for simplicity?

We offer an impactful Design Studio, spread over multiple subsequent sessions that leads to a crystal clear output: a 2-5 pager ‘fit for purpose framework’ for your course, degree or program. This framework is a manifesto for your technical curriculum design.
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Facts and figures

Startingdate: we determine the best moment together with you.

Duration: one morning/afternoon per session (2,5 hours). The total number of sessions is a bespoke package for your unique needs and stakeholders, and ranges between 3-5.

For who: This is something we can only do in co creation with the core team of researchers/professors who are the decision makers who can sign off content. After all, simplicity means deciding on what we let go of, and the ‘new’ that comes in. We need a true combination of expertises here and decision making power.

We can however expand and scope broadly within your teaching/research team for seperate sessions.

Price: see below.

Language: English

Location: It’s essential for a work of the imagination, and of the hand, to have an inspiring venue.

Ideally, we can use a spacious physical room for the Design Studio days. Like architects, we gather around a large table, with paper and pen and sit around it for deep dialogues. This resonates best with our philosophy around craftmanship (after Sennett 2008). The hand and brain coordinate optimally to think and imagine in the most open-minded ways. We digitalise only later.

Alternatively, we can partner with you fully remotely, using technology for the visualisations.


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Transformation

The (Re-)Design Studio is a space, in which we (re)imagine with you a concrete output: a technically resilient ‘fit for purpose framework’ for the curriculum of your envisioned course, degree or program. It has the shape of a 2-5 pager. So easy to handle as a basis for your further curriculum development.

Imagine a season (or two) in which you and your academic team, enter various Design Studio (half)days, together, to, in a hands-on way, visualise, dialogue, debate, discuss, align and create - become effective in decision-making and make things simple.

The start of the Design Studio much resembles our workshop ‘big ideas’. Together we identify hypes, undercurrents, emergent big ideas and building blocks in your curriculum. The Design Studio is about bringing you to a point of epiphanies and transformation. It is about opening up new horizons, and sharpening your thinking. 

The continuation of the Design Studio, is where we start to visualise for you how the curriculum might become, and through the act of creation, and the visualisation, you come to more realisations on the right decisions in terms of scope for your unique course/degree and setting.

Scope is everything, how much content fits within the time boundaries? The physical space is also an optimal place for adressing socio-emotional aspects of letting go face to face, in order to gain simplicity for the end product.

To avoid scoping literally everything the research team possibly finds important, at the same time, we start with an high over course/degree/program design in terms of the course’s blueprint. This gives the contours to the learning journey envisaged. By focusing on a bespoke pedagogy, we ensure to stay high-over and not strand in details of formulation of learning objectives.

All in all, the Design Studio gives you a whole new perspective with a view on a resilient curriculum that stands the test of time - by design (see also Breimer 2026).
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Output

A 2-5 pager ‘fit for purpose framework’ for your course, degree or program. This framework is a manifesto for your technical curriculum design. Have a look under technical resilience to learn more.

It is so rewarding to have this 2-5 pager curriculum. Once you have this, you can give it to an educational developer, or why not enter a Development Journey with us and start your modular design and development.
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Program for the participants

[Number of days is a bespoke agreement with you]

Morning / Afternoon in a spacious, attractive venue

Some 3-5 sessions.

We designed a unique Studio with an output that is decade strong.

At the same time we prepare the ground for the Development Journey, by using well-tested elements from the Carpe Diem method for course design/development. Since our independent senior advisor was trained at the Technical University Delft (TU/D) - you will also recognise these elements.
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Program with you as coordinator

We follow the following set-up:

Prior to delivery, we have a scoping call / in person meeting to co-create a bespoke workshop for your team, and define what success looks like.

Throughout we touch base, either with a call or face to face, about the process.

Afterwards, we have both an immediate touch base, and a reflection session remotely with you as coordinator, evaluating impact and spin-off. We usually do this 1 season after the workshop for the most authentic and genuine evaluation and way forward.
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Impact

A curriculum design can be an endless process, with a lot of dynamics coming in, from inertia, to typical academic or organisational stuff - as well has just an enormous mountain of material. A socio-emotional impact seems inevitable too - for instance, about letting go of parts of a curriculum, or about what the new should look like. The need to redesign, create or innovate the curriculum, can just become dragging or even never be realised.

Instead, by hiring an external independent senior advisor, something fresh is possible. We take the alignment required with a research / lecturing team, partly out of your hands. We come in lightly, in between people and departments. And we work time-bound, to give you a meaningful internal deadline.

One challenge is that a learning journey in a course/degree has a wholly different scope than that of an entire (research) program. We visualise for you both the horizon, and the contours of the curriculum. We help you to say what you mean, and be dedicated to conclusions to create a learning journey that speaks to the targeted audience.

We don’t shy away from bringing in a draft, from provoking you on the content, from bringing other perspectives - all whilst building on your own material. Through this loop of creating, and visualising we are dedicated to conclusions together with you. Where relevant we will include a graphic designer.

Certain academic or organisational cultures can be challenging in terms of ‘cutting cord’, making the decision, and moving forward. We are dedicated to conclusions, and can do it also on your behalf. We can give proper attention to the socio-emotional dimension as needed.

The reward of having just a simple 2-5 pager in your hands, a manifesto of a course, degree or program, a product of the participation of all, and robust well into the next 10 years - cannot be overrated.

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Meet the independent senior advisor and her expertise

Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc) is an independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, and director of STUDIOBLENDED.

The graphic designer is part of the freelancer pool.
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Price

Our Studio gives you the desired result and impact, with a package price for your bespoke assignment.

Depending on what you need we use the following set-up.

Based on the information you provide we scope the form of the work and result needed (and your deadlines). We offer you a quotation for the entire package.

Depending on your needs, we may source external experts for this assignment, as this step should be done carefully.

The Design Studio can be a stand alone component, but is best interwoven in a design journey so that we can clearly visualise for you what the implications of the outcomes and outputs are in concrete terms such as modules, lectures/videos, activities and beyond.
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Contact

Feel free to email or call our director and independent senior advisor, directly.

Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69



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Key projects

StudioBlended is currently partnering with an institute for capacity building within a European University, to co-create an impactful MOOC for this client (2025 - June 2026). The Design Studio has been pivotal in laying the foundations of the knowledge domain of the MOOC, and the behavioral change we wish to see in participants - creating the ‘fit for purpose’ framework, through which we are invigorated with the ability to design in a modular way, and have the realm of possibilities open building offers.

European funded program.

More information follows soon.




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Publication

Thinkpiece [Publication 2026]
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Our Audio Podcast

🎙 Keynote: Big ideas and modular curriculum design.
Prefer to read? Transcript
Listen on: Acast Spotify Apple
Release summer ‘24  

Listen (or read) to discover more about the ‘fit for purpose’ framework.

References

Breimer, Tikvah (2026) Resilient education that stands the test of time - by design. Thinkpiece. Forthcoming.

Richard Sennett 2008 The Craftsman. Yale Univeristy Press New Haven & London.

Design angles we use

Technical resilience
Human resilience
Modular
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Blended
Bichronous
Designed to be green (and technological simplicity) Nature and aspirations
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Simplicity and decluttering