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 ====== Willkommen, Welcome, Bienvenido, أهلاً وسهلاً, ברוך הבא, स्वागत है, 欢迎, … :-) ====== ====== Willkommen, Welcome, Bienvenido, أهلاً وسهلاً, ברוך הבא, स्वागत है, 欢迎, … :-) ======
  
-You somehow found your way to this website — maintained by the Creative Technologies Lab’s [[about:team:overview|team]] around [[about:team:felix-beck|Prof. Felix Hardmood Beck]] at [[https://www.fh-muenster.de|FH Münster]] in the beautiful Münsterland region of North-Rhine Westphalia. Not only is NRW home to scenic landscapes and excellent coffee, it also happens to be one of Europe’s strongest economic powerhouses, with 18 million inhabitants, over 700,000 SMEs, and more universities, research hubs, and incubators than one could reasonably visit in a week. Happy reading!+You somehow found your way to this website — maintained by the Creative Technologies Lab’s [[about:team:overview|team]] around [[about:team:felix-beck|Prof. Felix Hardmood Beck]] and [[about:team:leonie-winkelmann|Leonie Winkelmann]] at [[https://www.fh-muenster.de|FH Münster]] in the beautiful Münsterland region of North-Rhine Westphalia. Not only is NRW home to scenic landscapes and excellent coffee, it also happens to be one of Europe’s strongest economic powerhouses, with 18 million inhabitants, over 700,000 SMEs, and more universities, research hubs, and incubators than one could reasonably visit in a week. Happy reading!
  
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 The lab embraces the shift from STEM to STEAM — an educational and research approach that integrates the Arts into the traditional fields of __S__cience, __T__echnology, __E__ngineering, and __M__athematics. By including artistic and design-based perspectives, STEAM promotes a more holistic understanding of complex problems, encourages creative experimentation, and supports inclusive, interdisciplinary innovation. This mindset aligns with the lab’s mission to explore new forms of knowledge production that combine technical precision with aesthetic sensitivity and societal relevance. As John Maeda puts it, “//STEM subjects alone will not lead to the kind of breathtaking innovation the 21st century demands. Innovation happens when convergent thinkers […] combine forces with divergent thinkers – those who professionally wander, who are comfortable being uncomfortable, and who look for what is real.//”((Maeda, John. “STEM + Art = STEAM.” The STEAM Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/34)) This integration of disciplines reflects our belief that meaningful innovation often emerges where logic and creativity intersect, where storytelling enhances science, and where imagination becomes a driver of progress. ((OECD (2020): [[https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/|OECD Learning Compass 2030 – A Series of Concept Notes]]))((World Economic Forum (2023): [[https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/|The Future of Jobs Report 2023]]))((Buchanan, R. (1992): Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. In: *Design Issues*, 8(2), 5–21. [[https://doi.org/10.2307/1511637]]))((Brown, T. (2009): *Change by Design: How Design Thinking Creates New Alternatives for Business and Society*. Harvard Business Press)) The lab embraces the shift from STEM to STEAM — an educational and research approach that integrates the Arts into the traditional fields of __S__cience, __T__echnology, __E__ngineering, and __M__athematics. By including artistic and design-based perspectives, STEAM promotes a more holistic understanding of complex problems, encourages creative experimentation, and supports inclusive, interdisciplinary innovation. This mindset aligns with the lab’s mission to explore new forms of knowledge production that combine technical precision with aesthetic sensitivity and societal relevance. As John Maeda puts it, “//STEM subjects alone will not lead to the kind of breathtaking innovation the 21st century demands. Innovation happens when convergent thinkers […] combine forces with divergent thinkers – those who professionally wander, who are comfortable being uncomfortable, and who look for what is real.//”((Maeda, John. “STEM + Art = STEAM.” The STEAM Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/34)) This integration of disciplines reflects our belief that meaningful innovation often emerges where logic and creativity intersect, where storytelling enhances science, and where imagination becomes a driver of progress. ((OECD (2020): [[https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/|OECD Learning Compass 2030 – A Series of Concept Notes]]))((World Economic Forum (2023): [[https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/|The Future of Jobs Report 2023]]))((Buchanan, R. (1992): Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. In: *Design Issues*, 8(2), 5–21. [[https://doi.org/10.2307/1511637]]))((Brown, T. (2009): *Change by Design: How Design Thinking Creates New Alternatives for Business and Society*. Harvard Business Press))
  
-Find also a German longer version of this paragraph here: [[about:mindt|MINT wird MINDT]]+Read also a longer version of this paragraph in German: [[extras:wissikon:lehre:mindt|MINT wird MINDT]]
  
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