Experiential learning is paramount to understanding what is conceptually and creatively possible within XR. Students' positive feedback underlines XR's role in professional and career development. The XR Production Lab is a hub for collaborative learning, soft skill development, and an innovative teaching approach, making education more interactive and impactful.

Students gain insights, conceptualize ideas and develop prototypes
During an intensive week, twelve groups of students gained insights into conceptual frameworks and practical case studies, then conceptualized an idea, and finally developed their own prototype. The projects covered diverse topics like cultural exploration, mental health, community engagement, and career exploration. Utilizing tools such as Blockade Labs, Luma AI, Blender, and Unreal Engine, students with limited prior knowledge were able to create prototypes, which they pitched on the last day.

Best XR ideas
Four finalists presented their XR projects to a panel of diverse judges and were being assessed on value, applicability, and innovativeness.

• AR Scavenger Hunt App by Adelina Baranauskaite, Sophie de Bruin, Lisa van der Heijden, and Afanaisa Richardson: An AR app like Pokémon Go, designed for introduction week at Inholland. It features a themed quiz, chat function, and leaderboard to enhance student interaction and campus engagement.
   
• Inholland Support App by Simeon Mavrov, Vila van Dijk, Mirte Bosgraaf, and Lily Taroenodikromo: An AR digital companion app named 'Holly' that offers emotional support to students, particularly those studying abroad, encouraging them to share experiences and engage in activities.
   
• VR Emotional Expression Space by Devante Abhelakh, Udai Alsadi, Tessza Laszip, Rick Riemersma, and Feline Top: A VR project creating an underwater rage room where students can express emotions in a safe, private space, helping them manage stress.
   
• Virtual 360-Degree Campus Tour by Mylene Trippenzee, Zuzanna Dziedzic, Anna Kedlicka, and Annemijn Repelear van Driel: A solution for international students, providing a virtual 360-degree interactive tour of our campus in The Hague, mimicking the experience of an open day visit.

The jury awarded the “Inholland Support App” with the grand prize of tickets to the Immersive Tech Week Rotterdam and the possibility to further develop and execute the project. 

Explore the virtual exhibition of the students’ projects here.

Inclusive place
A goal of the board is to have open hours about two days each week the upoming academic year. As the board members themselves are diverse, Edgar Dale’s is an inclusive place. ‘We have two people on our staff who are queer and we are culturally diverse’,  says Loren. ‘It’s a judgment-free safe space’.

Curious about what is happening within our faculty? In four new episodes of Creative Business on Tour, colleagues and students take you on a tour through our faculty. Some places and initiatives you may know, others will be completely new to you. Hopefully this video series will give you an overview and information, but above all: inspiration!

Until the summer we publish a video every two weeks. In this second episode, we show you what studying in an living lab environment entails. What makes it “different” from studying in a “regular” educational environment? To let you experience this, we will visit the Sustainable Media Lab in The Hague. That lab is one of six (!) urban living labs within our faculty. In these labs, various stakeholders (education, research, professional field partners and other stakeholders) work together on social issues in the urban areas where our faculty educates students.

Episode 2 can be found below. We wish you a lot of viewing pleasure!

In the first episode we took you to Schiphol to experience how we work with flexible learning routes. Episode 3 focuses on the supporting processes and student participation. In the final episode, we check the state of student welfare.

Would you like to know more about the living labs within the Creative Business faculty? Then click here!

For all questions about the Sustainable Media Lab, please contact lab coordinator Irina Stoyanova.

Or look at the TEAMS environment of our faculty.

HI The Hague Student Experience
The ‘Hi The Hague Student Experience’ is created for all visitors who want to taste the atmosphere of The Hague as a student city. You can dance the whole day to music performed by student DJs who participated in the DJ contest.  And you can participate in all kinds of fun sports and game activities planned by the students of The Hague.

Participation Inholland
Multiple Inholland students collaborate for the Liberation Festival. International Creative Business students work on an assignment to explore how to properly communicate the message of 5 May to young people. Students of our Student Success Centre came up with different game activities for the Student Experience area. The Inholland Wheel of Fortune decides what game you will play. You spin the wheel, participate in the game and win a fun prize. 

Find out what else you can do at the student area on studyinthehague.com.  

Attendance of mayor and the executive board of higher education institutions
During the Liberation Festival,  there will be a special welcome in the afternoon for mayor Jan van Zanen and members of the executive board of the participating higher education institutions. From Inholland, Marije Deutekom will be present at the ‘Hi The Hague Student Experience’ to meet students and other board members.

ICB-student winner DJ contest
The winner of the student DJ contest in The Hague is our own ICB student Florian Wessiepe. As the winner, he is allowed to play on 5 May, at 19:00, on the main stage of the Liberation Festival. Will you come and support him?

Opening hours of the festival  
The ‘HI The Hague Student Experience’ is located directly to the left of the entrance of the Liberation Festival and is open from 12:00-20:00. The festival site itself opens at 12:00 until 23:00.

Come celebrate freedom with us!

Aftermovie Liberation Festival 2022
Find out what  the festival was like last year, filmed by Creative Business student Mikki Toirkens.

Take a look at the activities we organized for our students from September until December.  Special thanks to Creative Business student Ieva Galginaitė, who produced the film!

Venuepark is a go-to event planning platform, making it easier than ever to find and book venues and event services. After a selection procedure at all the applied sciences universities in The Netherlands, the best 7 teams entered into the final in Amsterdam. The competitors would be assessed on the following criteria: how realistic, scalable and financially solid their business is, how well-balanced their strategy is, the motivation and skills of the team and of course, creativity. The incredibly exciting and immensely promising pitches of all the young entrepreneurs made the level of this final very high. Ultimately, Venuepark was unanimously rated as the best. The second place was won by students from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the third place by students from University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.

Worldwide final in Copenhagen
By the end of June, the team is going to Copenhagen to compete with national winners from all over the world. This global final is a hugely exciting opportunity for the Inholland team. The start-ups will get additional training, facetime with investors and a chance to win € 50,000 in funding.

Founder Tony: "Of course we want to win in Copenhagen. The prize money would be a huge support for our company as well as the additional training. At this moment, the feeling of being the best of The Netherlands and meeting all these excellent creative entrepreneurs gave us a massive boost."

A group of second-year students International Media and Entertainment Management has been working on the first edition of ‘The Hague Film Awards’, hosted by Gemeente Den Haag and Culture Clash4U at Filmhuis Den Haag on 17 February 2018.

After this step, the students planned the content of the award show together with the clients. After the submission deadline of the video contest passed, the students nominated the best videos for the upcoming award show. Contestants can win € 500, which can be spend on a future profession in this field. Besides the money, the winning film will be screened at Filmhuis Den Haag for a month! During the award show itself, short documentaries, vloggers, music videos and animations will be shown. During the show, on February 17, the IMEM-students will be working as stage managers and front runners.

More information about The Hague Film Awards can be found on the Facebook page.

Three international student groups of Media and Entertainment Management Inholland The Hague have been working on a project called ‘Watermakers’ during the past months. The students have been planning events, exhibitions and social media content to promote the story of Watermakers.

Role IMEM students
The international students have taken on different tasks to help boost the popularity of Watermakers and make sure it will be a sounding success. Three IMEM project groups work on the project Watermakers: Temper Media, SF Marketing and Atale.

More information about project Watermakers and A bunch of choices can be found on their Facebook page and the website of A Bunch of Choices.