‘Het atelier’ is in de kunstgeschiedenis meermaals doodverklaard – eerst door de opkomst van conceptuele kunst, later door de digitale revolutie. Maar wie naar de hedendaagse kunstpraktijk kijkt, ziet dat kunstenaars en cultuurwerkers hun werkruimtes onverminderd hard nodig hebben. Ook beleidsmakers …

The built environment requires energy-flexible buildings to reduce energy peak loads and to maximize the use of (decentralized) renewable energy sources. The challenge is to arrive at smart control strategies that respond to the increasing variations in both the energy demand as well as the variable …

Even journalists and academics sometimes employ dichotomies that fall short almost immediately. An example is the prophets and wizards dichotomy. Populism with a scientific twist, which apparently makes sense and appeals to our gut feeling. A golden formula, with an implicit logical appeal to dialectics, …

Een van de grootste vraagstukken voor de wereldbevolking van de komende jaren is voedsel. De wereldbevolking groeit gestaag door, de toenemende welvaart zal de vraag naar eiwit verhogen, de vraag naar voedsel zal tegen 2050 verdriedubbeld zijn. Daarbij mag het klimaat niet verder belast worden en moet …

How to think from human entanglement in nonhuman life rather than from an assumption of separation and exception? How to put a non-universalizing, dehumanist ethics of knowledge into practice? How to practice a politics of knowledge in relation to nonhuman animals, built on the principle of differential …

The decision-making process in boardrooms has a significant impact on organizational performance. In the last two decades, scientific research on the decision-making process in boardrooms has increased. This resulted in a substantial body of knowledge about boardroom factors and their relation to organizational …

Concerns have been raised over the increased prominence ofgenerative AI in art. Some fear that generative models could replace theviability for humans to create art and oppose developers training generative models on media without the artist's permission. Proponents of AI art point to the potential increase …

Dit proefschrift gaat over de veerkracht van regionale arbeidsmarkten en de bijdrage die een triple helix partnership daaraan kan leveren. Het rapporteert over een onderzoek waarin de Health Hub Roden als triple helix partnership centraal staat. Vanuit de opvatting dat dit uiteindelijk bijdraagt aan …

Sensing technology is increasingly used to collect data about the workplace to provide insights into building performance and work activities. While such systems provide meaningful insights, they are a ’black box’ in nature considering people as passive data subjects with no input into the sensing and …

The university systems around jazz arose in the 1970s - at least 20 to 30 years after the heyday of the music it teaches. Acknowledging this truth begs the question of how the music was taught, learned, and diffused prior to its induction into this system. Additionally, the major contributions of experimental …