Anne Marleen Olthof
Lecturer, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anne Marleen Olthof is an educational pioneer for change at the University of Applied Science Amsterdam. She is a lecturer, coordinator and designer at the School for Communication and Multimedia Design. Currently, she is member of the Amsterdam Model for Education and Research, an initiative of five design schools that anticipate the future of our higher education. It aims to cultivate a design-driven educational system that maintains up-to-date in an ever-changing world. Anne Marleen's mission is to implement the principles and processes of creativity into 21st-century’s higher education.
Anne Marleen holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design (Delft University of Technology) and she is dedicated to advocating the importance of genuine dialogue, conviviality, contextual learning and self-regulated growth in order to deliver educational programs that are meaningful, inspiring and fun. Her personal initiatives seek to learn, inspire and create together.