René van Veen

Who?

  • (Grand)father, friend and partner
  • Volleyball player; playing for nearly 50 years
  • Reader; newspaper, poetry, fiction and non-fiction
  • Hiker; long-distance and local walks
  • Creative; searching, trying ...

What

  • Creating overview
  • Translating data into information
  • Human size
  • Working from practice

Where

  • Culemborg; born, raised and still living
  • Utrecht; sociology studies
  • (Southern) Europe; holidays
  • Cambodia and USA; wonderful trips

Motto

‘Man's environment is his fellow man’; Jules Deelder

Recommendations

  • Music: Opeth, Schubert, Elgar's Cello Concerto and infinitely more
  • Book: Robert Pirsig - Zen or the art of motorbike maintenance
  • Cabaret: Micha Wertheim
  • Concert film: David Byrne - American Utopia
  • Art: Rothko (especially his black paintings), Turner, Bonnefanten museum, Museum Voorlinden, etc, etc, etc