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ReThink Beauty

What do we experience as beauty and how do we feel about this wonderful but often also somewhat complicated word? With these two questions the project started out in 2007. Without any official ‘definition’ or explanation of what it is, or should be.

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Marius Hogendoorn
May 18

On war and beauty

Beauty is a confusing concept. I would love to have the comforting feeling that beauty is some probably naïve mixture of peace…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Jan 27

Collateral Beauty

A lot of intentions, plans and dreams have fallen apart over the course of the pandemic–and many are still shattering…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Jan 2

Why talk about ‘beauty’ in organisations?

We tend to think of beauty as a concept belonging to the private domain. It describes…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Nov 1, 2021

Driven by beauty

Being around beauty causes all sorts of emotions: most often happiness or joy, but a euphoric feeling or even sadness and…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Jul 26, 2021

On beauty and happiness

Beauty is an intriguing and rather complex concept. Some people say ‘it’s all in the eye of the beholder’, meaning it…

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Marius Hogendoorn
May 5, 2021

Elon’s error?

Occasionally I do share new developments and findings about Project Beauty on social media like LinkedIn and Facebook, so when Twitter…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Dec 15, 2020

Beauty: the battle between balls and brains

On how the heart got squeezed.

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Marius Hogendoorn
Apr 11, 2020

Happiness’ elephant?

This is about a word: ‘beauty’. Most of us use it daily and we hear others use it all the time. It is used in television…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Mar 21, 2020

Time-out to wonder 

Since a number of weeks an ‘organism at the edge of life’ is spreading: COVID-19…

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Marius Hogendoorn
Jun 20, 2019

The Beauty of Asking

Project Beauty asks questions — questions about a deeply personal topic — a theme that for many of us touches on what…

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