@emerbeamer profile picture
Emer Beamer @emerbeamer

Co-designer w children & youth for climate & social justice | Co-founder @designathons @Nairobits & @Butterflyworks 🌳 Ashoka Fellow, LSX Fellow

Joined October 2007
  • Tweets 9,376
  • Following 1,059
  • Followers 2,345
1,145 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Emer Beamer@emerbeamer
27 Aug 2021
'What's the Big Idea?' Me being interviewed by CNN International about our work around the world with children using design thinking & maker education to tackle the SDGs. Encouraging young changemakers to design a better world. youtu.be/6OhZK-avO8w

Designathon Works on CNN 'What's the Big Idea?'

A spotlight on the Designathon program by CNN International, 'What'...

youtube.com
1
1
13
I am now on Blue Sky, highly recommended, @emerbeamer on bksy.social
1
27
Hi to anyone seeing my profile, I stopped using twitter since Elon Musk took over and stopped filtering out hate messages, discrimination and dis-information. and just generally being himself. Find me elsewhere,🙏
26
Emer Beamer retweeted
New America Ed@NewAmericaEd
21 Oct 2024
What is co-design and why is it helpful for children—and adults? 🌱 Learn from @emerbeamer of our @LSXfellowship how in this process, a child's choices, imaginations, and their own judgments "really count." newamerica.org/education-pol…

Co-Designing with Children to Improve Well-Being—In Adults Too

As part of a co-design workshop in the Netherlands, children take the lead in designing solutions for adults experiencing stress.

newamerica.org
2
2
227
Emer Beamer retweeted
Dr. Feiran Zhang@feirantje
18 Jun 2024
A great start of #IDC2024 with @emerbeamer’s keynote speech on the fantastic Design-a-thon works with the vision of empowering children everywhere to become engaged citizens and designers for a better world. Glad to see this keeps going very well 🤩
2
8
396
Emer Beamer retweeted
Emer Beamer@emerbeamer
30 Nov 2022
At the @Catalyst_2030 General Assembly meeting now, definitely the broadest range of countries represented in one zoom meeting, Lebanon, Liberia, Spain, Nepal, Mexico, Kenya, Congo, US, Rwanda, Sudan, Yemen, Germany.. all social entrepreneurs working on the SDGs
1
1
Emer Beamer retweeted
Humza Yousaf
@HumzaYousaf
13 Oct 2023
This is Elizabeth El-Nakla. She is my mother-in-law. A retired nurse from Dundee, Scotland. She, like the vast majority of people in Gaza, has nothing to do with Hamas. She has been told to leave Gaza but, like the rest of the population, is trapped with nowhere to go.
0:40
3,713
16,633
43,111
7,591,874
Emer Beamer retweeted
Martijn Hendrikx@mhendrikxm
9 Sep 2023
Wat een beeld. #StopFossieleSubsidies #ExtinctionRebellion #a12blokkade
Danielle Hirsch@Danielle_H_BE
9 Sep 2023
#Stop
7
1
1
2,270
Design-a-Thon with Bomboka Andrew in Kawempe, Uganda. emerbeamer.blog/2023/04/12/d…
1
92
retweeting on St. Patricks Day, welcoming others!
Bolaji Adeyanju 🇳🇬 🇮🇪@bjgunner
16 Mar 2023
Congratulations to the new Irish citizens. If you think people take the irish citizenship as a joke, watch this #NewsIreland #IrishCitizenship
1:42
2
118
I have taken twitter off my phone and am opening a Mastadon account, will share address. The policies of the new CEO are too awful. All the best, 2023
2
9
437
28 demonstranten in Iran lopen groot risico op executie. Ze zijn aangeklaagd in oneerlijke rechtszaken voor vage misdrijven. De autoriteiten proberen zo andere demonstranten af te schrikken. Teken de petitie! @amnestynl amnesty.nl/forms/spoedactie-…
Risk takers challenge open call, stipendium, digital allianzfoundation.org/riskta…

Risktakers Fellowship Call

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXPIRED The fellowship aims to create spaces of hope and resilience while facing the complex crises of our time. It supports individuals who meet these crises by developing...

allianzfoundation.org
Seriously, mensen die op marktplaats een afspraak maken op iets te komen ophalen, gratis, en dan niks van zich laat horen, ik verlies soms mijn begrip in de mensheid.
1
1
1
1
1
“I think every job of the future will require people to save this planet.” Interview with @SatyamVyas & @micheleernsting posted at @THNKschool bit.ly/3AHgEwH

Satyam Vyas: The Opportunities of Climate Leadership

 _“I think every job of the future will require people to save this planet.”_ This week was a big one for the planet. We became eight billion people. We also he

thnk.org
Kan ik iemand blij maken met deze AI Educational Robot kit? Mijn robotfase is definitief voorbij. Hij is complete maar wel halfgemaakt. Voor verzendkosten is ie van jou
2
4
On another note, @netflix has called the film 'The Wonder' Brits! Hallo It's made in Ireland, everyone in the film is Irish, it's about Ireland, there is one, ok main, character who is English. Does Netlfix know Ireland is not British? @Gordonio_
1
Preparing for next weeks @Designathons training w preschool teachers in Singapore, the culture is soooo different, enjoying learning how they think and work.
3
Ik liet mijn laptop op t dak staan van de greenwheels auto en reed weg. Ja dat deed ik. Vanochtend om 7.30. Mocht iemand een oude MacBook air vinden met stickers erop in de. Bloemenbuurt in Amsterdam Noord. 🙏🏻. Rt is lief
1
1
ik heb hem zowaar net teruggekregen van een lieve buurman die het zag en oprappte!! ben zo blij en opgelucht
3
Load more