Rik Kuiper Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Op www.verhalengarage.nl demonteren Henk Blanken en ik verhalende journalistieke stukken.

Mijn verhalende non-fictieboek 'Lieve meisjes, heel gewoon' gaat over een Siamese tweeling die in 1953 in een arbeidershuisje in Friesland is geboren. Een jaar later werden de meisjes met succes van elkaar gescheiden.

SCW biedt een intensieve cursus wetenschapsjournalistiek. Als gastdocent sprak ik over creatieve invalshoeken.

Quest is a populair-wetenschappelijk maandblad. Ik schreef over alles van bosbranden tot hersenoperaties en van pokkenvaccins tot ritssluitingen.

In 2011 the Dutch Narrative Journalism Foundation organised the first Conference on Narrative Journalism in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The second conference was held in 2012. More information: www.verhalendejournalistiek.nl

Together with Tonie Mudde, in 2007 I published a popular-scientific book called 'Kijk niet naar mooie vrouwen' ('Don't look at beautiful women'). The foreign rights were sold to Bulgaria, Croatia, Japan, Germany, Great-Britain, and Serbia. In 2009 and 2011 we published two other popular-scientific books: 'Maak nooit je bed op' and 'Maak blunders (en word geliefd). Spring 2010, '50 Succesmodellen' (50 Success Models) went on sale. I translated this book, written by Roman Tschappeler and Mikael Krogerus, from German into Dutch. I also translated their 'Vragenboek' (Book of Questions), that was published in 2011.

The Museum of Unintended Use (www.museumofunintendeduse.com) collects pictures and stories. Pictures and stories about objects, and the way people use them. Which is often not the way designers intended them to be used. Unintended Use is opening a bottle of beer with a cigarette lighter, using your mobile phone as a pocket light, decorating your cherry tree with cd's to chase away birds, or using a pencil to pin up your long hair. And much more, of course.

Msc, Systems Engineering & Policy Analysis

For my master thesis, I developed a software tool to simulate the evacuation of airport buildings.

Writing And Editing

In 2003, I took a course on writing short stories at Schrijversvakschool, Amsterdam. In 2005, I attended Expeditie Bladenmaken, a week.