Amsterdam Science Park (ASP) is a pearl in the crown of the Amsterdam knowledge economy, with its high-level research institutes (the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam, several institutes of the NWO, the Dutch national science organisation) and a growing number of knowledge-based companies …

Sharks are ecological important inhabitants of most of the world’s oceans and seas. Still their life-history, which is dictated by slow growth rates and late maturity, makes most species, especially demersal- and coastal sharks, prone to exploitation through target- and nontarget fisheries. Another threat …

Dementie, een belangrijk maatschappelijk thema, waar K38 via kunst aandacht aan besteedt. Studenten van Academie Minerva hebben wekelijks, drie maanden lang, in het Groningse Odensehuis mensen met dementie geportretteerd. Deze expositie vormt een neerslag van hun ontmoeting.

Facility Management encapsulates unprecedented positive forces with which any workforce in an organization can function and perform better. A right facility design is also beneficial for clients, patients, and other end users. You will be immersed in best case practices, showing organizational-spatial …

This project started with a fascination by the concept of ‘feeling at home’. How does that work for homeless who don’t have a physical space to call home? To me, my role as an architect is to put social issues on the agenda and investigate spatial circular solutions. Even in our modern society, homelessness …

High added value biorefinery and biorefinery applications

The debate about the world wide web is of vital importance. Will it remain the democratic place of unconditional meeting and community building, or will it become a tool in the hands of governments, trillion dollar companies and the mafia, in order to secretly establish a dictatorship of control and …

The design of cities has long ignored the flows that shape the city. Water has been the most visible one, but energy and materials were invisible and/or taken for granted. A little over 50 years ago, Abel Wolman was the first to illuminate the role of water flows in the urban fabric. It has long been …