In the face of a global ecological crisis, culturally dominant framings of subjective experience as separate from living ecologies are no longer sufficient. Games might offer ways to break down these divisions. Alenda Chang has proposed bringing game ecologies to life. To complement her position, in …

The advent of the twenty-first century ushered in a new generation of fashiondesigners who merge design, artistic practice and research in a natural way. Theyuse artistic and activist interventions to revision fashion as a cultural and symbolicvalue-adding component integral to post-industrial restructuring …

Lecturers in higher education are expected to make use of the expanding amount of available resources when designing their courses(Baron & Zablot, 2015). This use of resources includes selecting, structuring and presenting materials; behaviour often referred to as curation (e.g. Anderson, 2015). Little …

The central thesis of this book is that access to information represents a vital aspect of contemporary society, encompassing participation, accountability, governance, transparency, the production of products, and the delivery of services. This view is widely shared, with commentators and scholars agreeing …

Contemporary education increasingly involves a blended learning environment, which consists of a combination of offline and online delivery methods. Blended learning environments can motivate students to learn, but designing motivating blended learning environments is challenging and can result in environments …

In this paper we present an educational digital game, Function Dungeon, that we developed for learning about functions in a playful way. Results from a pilot conducted with fourteen 13-year-old students in a school in the Netherlands show that the game can foster ‘joyful practice’. That is, students …

For the Dam tot damloop, a running event with 36,757 participants and 115,000 visitors, both an economic impact analysis (IEA) and a social cost benefit analysis (SCBA) are made to study the (broader) economic effects. Three overlapping geographical regions are studied and two new estimates of non-market …