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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

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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.

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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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Algues by VITRA

Qrater by EXTREMIS

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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


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

1. Outline plan

3. Outline plan with furniture

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2. Add furniture

4. 3D perspective


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.


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.

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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!

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