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Vanerum carries Franklins philosophy in their heart. And
rightly so, as the continuing innovations within education
show. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are
following the international trend towards more ICT in the
classroom, with the objective of teaching children to work
more independently and consequently a shift from 'transfer of
knowledge' to 'exchange of knowledge' But this tale involves
much more than just ICT: teaching children social and other
basic skills remains important. The changing society and new
technologies also have an intervening effect on education:
from the conventional authoritarian teacher at the front of the
class to the coach who inspires interactively, tutor and
counsellor. Vanerum has all tools on offer, which can help you
to realise these expectations, and the
necessary expertise to
advise you in word
and deed.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I
remember. Involve me and I learn.
(Benjamin Franklin)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Shaping their futures future
Designing naturally
Intelligent design in the classroom
Real virtuality
Create your own reality yourself
Space is precious
Students are valuable
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if raw materials are consumed
faster than they can be
renewed or produced, the
source will be systematically
emptied and in the long term
exhausted. In a sustainable
world the demand for rawmaterials must, however, be
The theory behind the termsustainability is easy to understand:
SHAPINGTHEIR FUTURES
FUTURE
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in balance with what Nature
can provide.
At Vanerum we understand
this completely: not only do
our designs reflect the trend
towards a renewed awareness
of environment and climate, a
new creativity arose from our
consciously dealing with
Nature and ecology, whichseeks solutions to achieve a
new way of product
development, design and
ecologically responsible
production methods. Only
when we learn to handle our
raw materials respectfully do
we have the chance to secure
our future.
At this moment the ecological
footprint of Man is more than23% above the ability of the
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planet to regenerate. In otherwords it takes more than 14
months before the Earth has
replaced what Man consumes
in a year. This problem is
often underestimated and
rarely approached effectively.
By measuring the ecological
footprint of a population (an
individual, a town or city, a
country or the whole of
humanity) we can determine
by how much we are
exceeding the capacity of our
environment to regenerate
and do something about it.
For industry one of the
answers is 'Lean
Manufacturing', for 3
important reasons. The ultra-
competitive global market
that we now know obliges
companies to work in a cost-saving way, so that profit
margins can be increased
and/or the price lowered.
Moreover, the rapidly
changing demands of the
customer have to be met 'just-
in-time', by equally quick
product changes and speeding
up the production process.
Finally, despite the high
speed of production high and
constant quality also has to be
guaranteed.
The pressure to shorten the
'time-to-market' cycle will be
more intense for the majority
of companies.
These companies have no
other choice than to consider
the need as an opportunity to
think of new ways to develop
and produce new productsfaster and more cheaply than
the competition, wherebyproduct quality is maintained
and even improved.
One of the possible ways to
keep production costs down
is to handle the raw materials
used sustainably. Let us think
of rainwater recovery, the
cleaning and re-use of grey
water, better use of raw
materials through
sophisticated molds and
cutting patterns, space-saving
packaging methods to cut
transport costs and the
reduction of CO2, use of
reusable packaging materials,
energy-efficient machines,
recyclable materials,
MAMBO,
Viewed geographically,
Belgium and Holland alsohave excellent trump cards
for action against the
consequences of climate
change. Water, wind, sun and
topography make a
widespread use of sustainable
energy sources possible and
thanks to the large area given
up to agriculture there is
space to grow bio-fuels. It
will depend on both the
citizen and industry becoming
more sensitive and the need
to consider sustainability as a
challenge that provides
progress, not as an expensive
limitation of our freedoms.
Sustainability and ecology are
not a choice against the
economy, but a bubbling
barrel full of new
opportunities and possibilitiesthat will shape our future.
A product is generally determined by economic, technical and
aesthetic criteria. Eco-design adds eco-efficiency to this list: estimation
of all ecological aspects throughout the complete lifecycle of the
product (from development of all raw materials through the production
and manufacturing process the use by the end user to the wastephase).
If every phase of the lifecycle of a product and its components is
developed accurately from an ecological viewpoint, and all materials
are selected with ecological care, the result is minimum environmental
stress.
By applying eco-design during the design process the necessary
product adaptations can be made without facing intrusive investments
or costs. Applying eco-design in the design process also means that a
product design is at a higher level of innovation than in the
conventional design process. This product will also be more durable
and last longer. Both small and simple products as well as large
complex ones are considered for eco-design.
An Van GinderachterEcologist, adviser to the Vanerum group
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DESIGN2
Vanerum specialises in the integration of furniture and
technology for teaching environments.
We listen to your expectations and we develop,
produce and supply creative solutions based on them.
We have all the tools on offer to realise your ideas and
the necessary expertise to support you in the selection
of a comfortable, well thought out environment.
tradition technology+
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Man has been inspired by Nature from theearliest of days. Initially for the creation of art
(from the first cave paintings to the global
work of Gaudi), but also in developing new
technologies and techniques that make all
kinds of activity possible, which were not setaside for Man till then or more recently in
health applications.
In the product-development
field the renewed awareness of
nature and the environment is
reflected in the materials used,the naturally ergonomic
shaping and designs and the
preparatory strength
calculations based on different
materials and material
structures. Naturally, the
objective remains to improve
the product in question,
whereby imitation of
ecosystems is going to play an
increasingly important role in
the future: to disturb the
ecosystems within which
industry is located as little as
possible by closing the cycles
of raw materials, increasing the
productivity of raw materials,
reducing the physical losses
and enforced carbon reduction.
Possible action points for
companies: exploit each other's
spare production capacity, use
joint energy supplies, reducetransports,
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the currently existing newer
applications offer a selected
platform to profit best from
the synergy between present-day communications
Although many teachers arestill frightened off from using
ICT in the classroom,
techniques and education.
This synergy makes it pos-
sible to work in new ways.
Doing so we think, for exam-
ple, of the live use of the
Internet to go and look for the
answer to a specific problem,
to call up the television news
for the same day, the abilityto use animated exercises or
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CLASSROOM
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From our experience in integrating ICT into
classrooms and particularly SMART Board and
other SMART Technologies products it seems
that students have been won over to renovation.
It is primarily the teachers who have to be
retrained to use these technologies to the full.
SMART has understood this well and supports
its users with an educative website from which
ready-made lessons are provided free of charge.
Mark KoninckxAV- Project & Product Manager
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Computer classroom
Printer
Teleworking
to change board content
quickly and flexibly with the
aid of simple projection or a
digital school board. These
methods are not just handy in
the classroom itself, but also
require less preparation time:
all the preparations can be
done at home and endlessly
repeated without additional
efforts.
Moreover, if an electronic
learning environment is used,
the possibilities are even
greater: teachers can sharetheir work with each other
and with the students, work
handed in by the students can
be used as the basis for
coursework, all kinds of
teaching objects can be made
available, time is devoted to
in-depth remedial work,
extracurricular discussions
and activities.
The greatest advantage? All
these techniques have existed
for a significant time, have
become common currency in
our society and fit seamlessly
into the world the studentslive in.
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The present-day virtual reality
is almost sufficiently full-grown to play an important
As virtual reality applications continue todevelop, it seems as though we increasingly
have to begin assuming a real virtuality.
Photo classroom Versa M
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REAL VIRTUALITY
VIRTUAL REALITYJUST AS REAL AS
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role in the planning, prepara-
tion and simulation of various
projects. In interior design it
is very comforting to see in
advance whether a specific
room feels good and to be
able to assess the effects of
specific changes. This reduces
the risk of faulty estimates
and judgements considerably,
which also brings the design a
step closer, with a more plea-
sant and more considered
environment as a result.
Since these VR-simulations
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3. Outline plan with furniture
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are fully correct and realistic
for a good virtual assess-
ment of the results, they can
also be used in practice:
designing and dividing up a
space is no longer just reser-
ved for specialists, but is
accessible to everyone
thanks to the naturalised
techniques and the easy
learning curve. The different
technologies behind it allow
everyone to realise their own
designs and opens the door
to individual series work.
CREATE YOUR OWNREALITY YOURSELF
Would you like to see virtual reality working in practice? Then take a
look at www.vanerum.com and click through to the 3D-planner (design
your space online).
In the planner you copy the ground plan of your space, with the exact
dimensions, corners, colours, materials and architectural elements.Then you add the necessary furniture from the libraries prepared by
Vanerum: drag the item of your choice to the right place, give it the
exact colours and materials, and rotate it till it fits, or fill a whole
space full at one time based on a freely adaptable outline plan. After
adding the right lighting accents you can assess the result from
different static and dynamic 3D-viewpoints and pass your design to
Vanerum, whereupon a detailed offer will be prepared.
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INTEGRATIE2
Vanerum specialises in the integration of furniture and
technology for teaching environments.
We listen to your expectations and we develop,
produce and supply creative solutions based on them.
We have all the tools on offer to realise your ideas and
the necessary expertise to support you in the selection
of a comfortable, well thought out environment.
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Naturally, you must have a
building with sufficient
capacity, which is also good
and functional. Anyone who
says 'good and functional',
can have difficulty with the
term 'space management': allrooms in the school need,
among other things, heating,
lighting, decoration and other
types of preventive and
corrective maintenance,
janitor services such as
locking and unlocking and
the like. All the needs
summarised above naturally
have their costs. In setting up
a broad school (see inset)
these elements are even more
important because small
spaces can be made available
separately more easily to
different partners, where this
is not always self-evident
with a larger space. In this
way an efficient use and
management of space help
not only to keep down the
costs associated with running
the building, but also reducesthe opportunity costs as a
As a school management, you are primarilyresponsible for providing a good quality
education.
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result of the ability to make
every square metre pay.
It is in any event true that the
more efficiently an available
space is used, the lower are
the costs of the building as awhole and the more can be
invested in achieving a good-
quality education.
Vanerum is fully aware of this
problem and provides the
experience and product-
knowledge of its employees
to draft and carry out the
widest variety of setups and
integrations, with an eye to
efficient use of space, without
wishing to be reduced to
uncomfortable and
disagreeable clichs.
From these challenges our
R&D team is constantly
developing ergonomic,
comfortable products that
stand surely for sophisticated
use of space, optimum
flexibility and extensiveusefulness. Not even the
S PRECIOUSPACE IS
In the last decade in the Netherlands there has been strong
cooperation between schools, pre- and after-school clubs, local
and neighbourhood working and local provisions. Very often
the cooperation was initiated by the communities and a new-
build or rebuild project is ofter associated with it. The Brede
School is really just a building, which is shared by the
different partners. In other countries such as the U.S., Sweden
and Denmark, similar cooperative trends can be seen. There
are 'Community Schools' for example, who want to create a
social network through far-reaching integration between the
neighbourhood, the parents and the school to tackle and
prevent problems in the school and the neighbourhood.
aspects of sustainability andease of maintenance escape
their eye for detail.
BROAD
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The conventional computer
class is well suited to carrying
out tasks individually or in
small groups. But what if
you, as the teacher, again
want to have the full attention
of the students?
So as not to lose the attentionof the students during
variable times in lessons,
good mastery of the necessary
teaching techniques is
doviously important, but it
also helps if you can have an
appropriate infrastructure
available.
With the multi-functional
Rize furniture you no longer
have to choose between
theory and practice or give up
Does your ICTclass face you with
the dilemma between
theory lessons and
practical sessions?in the face of a disruptive
'reorganisation' of your class,
or worse yet: to move from a
conventional classroom to the
computer class. At one
moment you are still in front
of a multimedia classroom
full of screens, in the wink of
an eye later all the screens
and keyboards have been
hidden from sight to make
way for a classroom in which
standard lessons can be
taught and in which you
retain optimum contact with
the students during theoretical
discussions. Directly, with no
chaos. And when done,
everyone quickly back to the
PC again? Yeah, sure, youdecide!
STUDENTS AREVALUABLE
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