Floating developments have the potential to mitigate a range of challenges including fluctuating water levels, sea level rise, and pressures on available space on land for housing, energy production and storage, and food production. The national Dutch research project Floating Future is a project which …

This paper is a call to action from researchers in the Polar Science Early Career community. This call comes from experiences held and events witnessed by early-career researchers where imbalanced power dynamics and extractive research in and with Indigenous communities persist largely unchecked. As …

Begeleiders van Compaz-Jeugd, locatie Touwslager in Sappemeer (onderdeel van Stichting De Zijlen), signaleren risico’s op het gebied van multimedia- en gamegebruik bij jongeren met een licht verstandelijke beperking en/of bijkomende problematiek. De begeleiders geven aan dat jongeren hun dag- en nachtritme …

Biogas production involves the complex process of anaerobic digestion in bioreactors. This paper presents numerical modeling results and analysis of bioreactors. We discuss research methodology, model geometry, internal bioreactor processes, and possible modifications. Two mathematical models and their …

Momenteel is in het Fries Museum in Leeuwarden de expositie ‘Veenweide Atelier: ontwerpen voor een gezonken moeras’ te zien. De expositie toont onder meer een zijden én een linnendoek die met pigmentproducerende bacteriën zijn gekleurd door Jeroen Siebring, senior onderzoeker binnen het lectoraat Bioconversion …

In order to deliver good work, professionals need agency – the ability to act and decide on the course of one’s actions. The agency of professionals in the public sector is however increasingly under pressure. Research suggests that these limitations on the agency of public professionals in turn limit …

Precarity and budget cuts plague arts and culture while they are still recovering from the damages of the pandemic. Meanwhile, extreme right wing politics spreads across the world and increases censorship and repression on artists and cultural practitioners. How can creatives come together and build …

For three years, the CrAFt Sandbox Cities—Amsterdam, Bologna, and Prague—have been experimenting with shaping sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful urban futures. Through this series of short videos, discover how each city has turned its unique vision into action by testing new collaborative governance …

This paper aims to reconsider our cultural - and industry wide - reliance upon authentic identity in terms of fashion. Clothing has come to signify our personal beliefs and values, allowing for incessant (but acceptable, even honourable) consumption and change. Inadvertently, the shaky foundations of …