Although digital technologies promised a renaissance in the publishing industries, publishers still struggle with digital innovations and try to hold on to traditional workflows, production, form and business models. How can we open-up this top-down mode of communication? In this episode we discuss the …

Does our knowledge about city and urban planning have solid ground? Can historical research promote creative thinking? How can we theorise about urban design and architecture in our age of the media? These questions have guided the creation of this multi-layered, richly documented and illustrated triptych, …

Man kann das Heute mit keiner Zeit vorher vergleichen? Zu schnell sind die Veränderungen, zu gravierend die technologischen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung, des Internets? Frans van der Reep nähert sich in vielen überraschenden Parallelen in der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung dem Gestern und Heute …

Frans van der Reep widmete sich im ersten Teil seines Kommentars (KM Magazin, Nr. 90, Juni 2014) den überraschenden Parallelen zwischen dem digitalen Heute und dem weit entfernten, mittelalterlichen Gestern. In dieser Ausgabe setzt er dies fort und führt die Gedankenkette hin zu den Ähnlichkeiten der …

Insteek van dit onderzoek was: “Wat is de invloed van vrij grote, kunstmatige hoogteverschillen in de Nederlandse openbare ruimte in ruimtelijke en functionele zin?”. Gekozen is voor het onderwerp hoogteverschillen, omdat er in het plangebied de Spuikom (Vlissingen) veel hoogteverschillen voorkomen. …

The research has been planned to give support to the interpreter who desires to start a personal research about Sequenza XI, focusing on rhetorical features as means for its interpretation. The thesis is aimed to provide a method for both the performer who approaches the work and he who already knows …

This paper examines the role of the public private partnerships in the health care systems of three European countries - The United Kingdom, Poland and the Czech Republic. Public private partnerships were developed in the 19th century in the UK. It was a way to finance the rapid growth of the infrastructure, …

The following research considers classical guitar as an instrument which properly fits with transcriptions. Since Renaissance, music for other instruments was already transcribed for the family of the guitar, as Luys Milan states in el Maestro. The evolution of guitar during the XX century increased …

Through the so-called Web 2.0 and so-called social media, the notion of sharing, community and participation have been thoroughly perverted . Using the World Wide Web has become synonymous with being tracked and data­ mined. The only resort to responsible social communication is to practice anti-social …

Een kleine 40 jaar geleden onderging de bouw een ware revolutie. De seriematige productie van casco’s werd tot kunst verheven. Kern van deze revolutie was een tot in detail doordachte organisatie van het werk op de bouwplaats. En, conform het aloude adagio ‘meten is weten’, was dat weer gebaseerd op …