The port of Rotterdam is the largest seaport in Europe. To maintain its position, the harbor will have to anticipate global transitions such as transferring to sustainable energy. Hydrogen is seen as a promising energy carrier; however, future demand is uncertain. The current research investigates decision …

Makercosmos is a four-year maker education programme in Arnhem, the Netherlands, which comprises the development of series of maker education lessons and participatory action research about learning in maker education, among other activities. This study reports findings from the first pilot of this series, …

Digital maker culture is increasingly studied for its impact on production and consumption patterns, technological innovation, educational potential and citizen engagement in design and technology. As making practices proliferate globally and begin to institutionalise, research …

In this chapter on makers, the authors provide a critical overview of the different cultures of making, their motivations as well as the socio technical infrastructures that encourage these forms of peer production. They draw on a growing body of scholarship on making and hacking in the social sciences, …

Hoofdstuk in boek 'Innoveren met labs hoe doe je dat?' 'Innoveren met labs hoe doe je dat?' geeft je de praktische handvatten die je nodig hebt om een succesvol living lab op te zetten met de stakeholders in jouw context. Ontdek hoe je met hen en studenten in de regio samen kunt werken aan innovatieve …

Ziekte is een reactie van het lichaam op een verwonding; dit is een persoonlijke kernovertuiging. En het klopt, als het gaat om een bacteriële infectie, een virus, een hersenschudding. In die gevallen zoekt de gezondheidszorg altijd naar de oorzaak van de ziekte alvorens deze te bestrijden. Ziekte als …

The learning innovation we report in this article is an international rapid-prototyping event (48 hours) in which teams of international BSc and MSc students from two universities (Western Europe and South-East Africa, respectively) jointly designed and developed a prototype for a local small-business …

With the rise of innovation and entrepreneurship as avenues for journalists to take in their search for journalistic work, we need to critically interrogate how these terms are understood. Various journalism institutions are pushing a particular understanding of journalism, and of what constitutes meaningful …

Now that higher education is closed in Corona lock-down, schools are only going to continue very partially (“pretend” they 're still open), we run the risk of pricing ourselves out of the market. Because if it really is only about knowledge transfer, there are of course so many more interesting documentaries …

Over the past decade, the maker movement and in its slipstream maker education have attained worldwide popularity among educators, politicians, and the media. Makers’ enthusiasm for creative design and construction, using old and new tools has proven contagious, and is worth exploration and critical …