While Making is often seen as a hedonistic pass-time activity, is it attracting growing interest in many industries. Globally, big players have started to fund Fab Lab on a substantial scale. Schlumberger is supporting the development of Fab Labs in Russia, Aramco sponsored the first Fab Lab in Dhahran …

Binnen het onderwijs van Nederlandse Gebarentaal wordt in Nederland vrijwel uitsluitend gebruik gemaakt van de doeltaal, en niet van het Nederlands. In dit artikel wordt gezocht naar argumentatie voor deze praktijk, op basis van literatuur met betrekking tot gebarentalen en gesproken talen. Argumenten …

This book contains five views and architectural proposals for Cape Town, South Africa. The design project is a 3rd year project (P5) at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Two lecturers and five students visited Cape Town in 2014, The metropolitan region of Cape Town has grown rampant for decades. …

This article discusses the possibility of integrating deep ecology (DE) and animal rights (AR) perspectives within environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). The focus of this article is on three questions: why are DE and AR not currently central to EE/ESD debates? …

Er hebben de eerste meting 161 cliënten deelgenomen aan MOVE. Deze cliënten hebben een ZZP 3 C indicatie. Toch wijken ze qua socio-demografische kenmerken niet af van de totale BW-cliëntenpopulatie van de RIBW, zoals tijdens het UTOPIA-onderzoek in kaart is gebracht.

While the notion of autarky is often contested in terms of feasibility and desirability, art and design projects that deal with autarky seem to moreover suggest positive socio-cultural and ecological effects of autarkic living. A social network model of autarky is introduced to unify these seemingly …

Alcohol use among adolescents has become a major public health concern over the past decade. This alcohol use is associated with various other problems, therefore it is important to detect at-risk adolescents as a starting point for interventions. The main aim of this thesis is to identify determinants …

The implementation of innovative sustainability technologies often requires far reaching changes of the macro environment in which the innovating firms operate. Strategic management literature describes that firms who want to commercialize an innovative technology can collaborate in networks or industry …

Most distributed and virtual online environments for and pedagogies of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) neglect the social and social-emotional aspects underlying the group dynamics of learning and working in a CSCL group. These group dynamics often determine whether the group will develop …

20% of Dutch youth suffer from psychiatric disorders that hamper their daily functioning and their personal development. Clients tend to drop out of school and have problems in their social environment. These clients often suffer from low social competencies and low empathic behavior, resulting in low …