Marco Van Hout Email & Phone Number

Soest, Ut, Nl

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Founder, designer, developer of Metodic: Creative Methods and Session Plans in minutes! For facilitators, educators and professionals who feel the frustration of last minute quality prep work for creative sessions or workshops and need a little hand.

Global

As a self-employed speaker, trainer, and consultant at Demadera, I specialize in transformational design at every level: individuals, teams, and organizations. My work focuses on empowering clients to innovate and create meaningful change through design thinking, emotional design, and systemic transformation. I help individuals grow their capabilities, enable teams to collaborate more effectively, and guide organizations in embedding sustainable practices into their strategies. Through tailored workshops, keynotes, and consulting, I foster creativity and drive impactful results. Learn more at marcovanhout.com.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As co-founder of the DSS and current Creative Director, I am responsible for the 'story, impact and soul of DSS'. What drives us? How do we engage our community? And how do we make sure we reach enough people to learn from us? And, most importantly, how does our community learn?--------------------Digital Society School is a global community that helps people learn how to use digital technology to create a better world. We believe that everyone has the power to make a difference, and we provide the skills, tools, and resources they need to do so.We offer a variety of learning formats, including online courses, in-person workshops, and traineeship/ leadership programs. We also work closely with a variety of partners, including businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies, to ensure that our programs are relevant to the needs of the real world.We believe that everyone has a role to play in creating a more sustainable and inclusive digital society. We are committed to working with people from all walks of life to equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to make a positive impact on the world.

Global

As Community Liaison, my mission is to stimulate lifelong learning, design activism and to create a growing community of design activists that learns how to have direct impact on the Sustainable Development Goals as adopted by the United Nations. This work closely relates to the missions of the Global Goals Jam, Design Across Cultures and the Digital Society School. In 2019 the DSS and WDO successfully co-organised the World Industrial Design mini-jams in many locations around the world. The World Design Organization (WDO), formerly the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), is an international non-governmental organization founded to promote the industrial design profession and its ability to generate better products, systems, services and experiences, better business and industry, and ultimately a better environment and society.From 12 founding professional design associations in 1957, WDO has grown to include more than 140 member organizations from 40 nations, engaging them in collaborative efforts and providing them with the opportunity to be heard internationally.WDO advocates industrial design driven innovation that creates a better world, engaging its member organizations in collaborative efforts and carrying out international programming using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework to guide their activities. WDO’s programmes include World Design Capital®, World Design Talks™, World Industrial Design Day™, World Design Impact Prize and Interdesign™. WDO has United Nations Special Consultative Status.

Bilbao Area, Spain

DOT is an international business transformation and design firm focused on social intrapreneurship and sustainable living habitat design, merging East & West through design and human-centered tools. DOT merges organization, strategy and product/service design. Going deep into people’s needs and creating opportunities to make people happy, free and empowered.www.feeldot.com

Madrid Area, Spain

Teaching a yearly intensive crash course on user-centered and emotion-driven design to students of the Master of Visual and Digital Media. Part of the IE School of Human Sciences & Technology.Style is hands on, large focus on the process, design methods and real-life industry cases. Mostly in close collaboration with industry or public sector, such as Madrid municipality, Medialab Prado, IBM, BBVA, a.o.UCD is all about finding the right problem for the right person(s) and make the experience the most meaningful. www.ie.edu/school-communication/programs/master-in-visual-and-digital-media/Comments by students:"I absolutely loved this class. I feel like after having so much design classes that were painfully repetitive, this one took it to a whole new level of experience and application of knowledge that I truly appreciate!""Marco is an outstanding professional and professor, a combination that sadly is uncommon.""Such a great professor! Really enjoyed his class. His attitude and sincere niceness really created a positive ambiance. The material was interesting, well presented and well prepared!""I LOVED this class. The teacher was magnificent. He was enthusiastic, knowledgable, motivated and attentive. It is unfortunately this class can"t be longer, for I learned and benefited a lot from having it. He might have even inspired me to pursue a doctorate in psychology of design. BRILLIANT course, this is the type of caliber all of the professors should have!""We need professors as involved and engaged as Marco. Bless him!""Very fun and engaging class!!""Great teacher. Nice, helpful and engaging"

Netherlands

SusaGroup is a strategic design consultancy with a particular focus on emotion as the key to create better, more enjoyable products and services and meaningful experiences in the end. SusaGroup combines scientific competences with market insights in the development and application of innovative, valid, and relevant tools to measure emotions. SusaGroup advises and trains several large corporations and FMCG’s in improving their products and services based on insights in the emotions of their customers.

Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

Monito is a creative and innovative organisation that offers advice, design and implementation of corporate design and internet applications for local government, research institutions, and companies. We distinguish ourselves with flexible, reliable and user friendly solutions.

Editor of www.design-emotion.com, interviewing experts and designers in the fields of design and branding.

Santiago De Chile

Consultores de nivel senior en la mejora de la experiencia de uso de sus productos y servicios. Somos Spearker Internacionales y Docentes con más de 10 años de experiencia en el mundo CX/UX y desarrollo de productos y servicios. Representamos al IDF en América del Sur y en Chile, cargos a los que fuimos seleccionados por nuestro compromido con el Diseño de alto nivel. También participamos activamente en el Design & Emotion Society, DRs, CXPA y el ICXA.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As Design & Research lead for MediaLAB I execute design & research projects, contribute to the interchange of education, research and valuation, and contribute to the valuation of research output. Additionally my role includes the development and improvement of the overall (design) programme, work on international partnerships with parties that like to incorporate our lab and design model, and expand the Design Across Cultures network with projects that are executed in cities around the globe simultaneously. I am also responsible for the development of our open Design Methods Toolkit, our SCREAM! design standard for multidisciplinary teams and the SCREAM app to prevent 'design waste' and build upon each other's work (www.designmethodtoolkit.com).

Delft Area, Netherlands

The Design & Emotion society is a non-profit organisation that raises issues and facilitates dialogue among practitioners, researchers, and industry in order to integrate salient themes of emotional experience into the design profession.In 2006-2007 I have been co-responsible for the European funded ENGAGE project. ENGAGE is bringing together industry, research and design in the field of affective engineering, to create a knowledge community and realise best use of both current and future knowledge.From 2007-2009 I have been responsible for promoting the society internationally and expanding its network and local initiatives. Also I developed the online platform where tools, methods and proceedings are available. Since 2009 I am a full board member and a.o. involved in the organisation of our bi-annual international conference, setting up the local chapters and coordinating the online platform.

Gijón Area, Spain

Nuestro objetivo principal es acercar a nuestros clientes la posibilidad de indentificar e integrar parámetros emocionales en el diseño, desarrollo y puesta en el mercado de productos y servicios.

Bogota

The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the field of design and emotion. The conference will offer research paper presentations, design case presentations, poster presentations and workshops. The Design Department of the Universidad de los Andes, located in Bogota, Colombia, will host the conference from October 6 to 10, 2014. The workshops will be held simultaneously in three different cities from October 6-7: Bogota at Universidad de los Andes, Cali at Universidad Icesi, and Medellin at Universidad EAFIT.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Outdoor media companies in the Netherlands often experience resistance against public screens, such as on the part of municipalities, urban space managers and on the part of the citizens. The SpaceSee project aims to address this challenge by aiming to demonstrate and increase the potential and added value of public screens.

As a student I started this small business together with my brother. We did several design projects, focused on the web and were early adopters of Macromedia's Flash technology.

M.Sc., Applied Communication

Activities and Societies: Twente SUMMMERCAMPus (Project coordinator), Faculty PR team (presentations), Student Assistent.

International Business & Service Marketing

August 2001 - January 2002

Education record