This report was produced within the framework of the RAAK PRP project ‘Veiligheid op de werkvloer’. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is used on a daily basis by millions of people all over the EU, voluntarily or as a result of EU legislation. In this report we deal specifically with the textile/garment …

Safety at work The objective of the project Safety at Work is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artefacts from personal protective equipment and ambient intelligence technology. In this state of the art document we focus on the developments with respect to …

When conducting research in and for the creative industries, there are a wealth of different possible research approaches that can be taken - reflecting the diverse nature of the disciplines (design, arts and crafts, advertising, architecture, fashion, film, music, TV, radio performing arts, publishing …

How and where can Dutch design entrepreneurs find work in Germany? This was the question DutchDFA put to the research team at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in February 2010. But the researchers took a different angle, and generated unexpected data, revealing patterns, and valuable new insights …

Lanen zijn onmisbare onderdelen in de meeste landschappen in Nederland. In dit onderzoek zijn zes boomsoorten nader bekeken, is gesproken met zowel beheerders als kwekers. Ook de kosten van onderhoud zijn meegewogen. De vraagstelling in dit onderzoek luidt: “Welke startsituatie en welke beheerhandelingen …

Report in English on the results of the international Stadslab Master Class on urban segregation. The project focuses on the redevelopment strategy for the Lyuko valley in the Hungarian city of Miskolc. The valley is occupied by an increasing number of roma residents, who live in ramshackle buildings …

There has probably never been such an intense debate about the layout of the countryside as the one that is currently raging. There are serious concerns about the landscape, which is being rapidly transformed by urbanization and everything associated with this process, and not only in the Netherlands …

In dit rapport doen wij verslag van een onderzoek naar inpassingprincipes van bebouwing in open gebieden. In vier polders (Zuiderpolder, Friesland; Wieringermeer; Zuiderpolder, N.-H.; Polder Niiew Helvoet) hebben we onderzocht welke inpassingprincipes zijn gebruikt en geven wij antwoord op de vraag welke …

De aanleiding van dit rapport is een ontwerp van de afstudeeropdracht, met als onderwerp het ontwerpen van hèt nieuwe centrale stadspark voor Almere. Maar hoe ontwerp je een stadspark dat een zekere allure heeft en dat succesvol is? In Nederland bestaan er een aantal parken die als typisch kunnen worden …

As part of the international research and design project StreetWorks: Patterns in Urbanity, professor of Design in Urbanism Henk Hartzema, together with students from the Academy, explored and researched the function of the street in six European cities, each with a population of around 1 million residents: …