In the frame of an on-going 4-years research project, the Aviation Academy Safety Management Systems (AVAC-SMS) metric for the self-assessment of aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) was designed based on the Safety Management Manual of the International Civil Aviation Organization and in cooperation …

The rehabilitation clinic I designed for severe gaming addicts is conceived as an architectural antidote to the digital world and is based on the principles of social reintegration and physical reconnection. The rehabilitation clinic provides a 12-week programme for 13-25-year-old gaming addicts, …

In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

A group of teachers and students from Calvin College (Michigan) came to visit educational- and research institution to learn more about sustainability (projects) in the Netherlands. And so, they played the We-Energy Game at the Energy Academy (Hanzehogeschool Groningen). The goal was to enhance their …

Edited transcript of speech at ta Chinese Academy of the Arts Hanghzou event, held at the art academy of Strasbourg, December 2017

Inaugural speech of Peter van Assche, professor Architecture & Circular Thinking, deliverd on 12 December 2019 . In the Architecture & Circular Economy research group at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, I want to go on a journey in order to find new ways of thinking. Not to return as a misanthrope, …

Inzage in het medisch dossier is een recht dat iedere patiënt heeft. Maar kan iedere patiënt op elk tijdstip de gegevens in het dossier begrijpen en zijn de gegevens in het dossier op elk moment in een opname betrouwbaar? In dit artikel worden de juridische en ethische aspecten van inzage in het medisch …

Vier jaar geleden is het IMPACT-lectoratenprogramma goedgekeurd en gesubsidieerd door het ministerie van Economische Zaken (EZ) . Dit gezamenlijke hoger agrarisch onderwijs (HAO)-brede lectoraatsprogramma is ontwikkeld in een samenwerking tussen EZ en de HAO-instellingen: Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen, …

Human prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that artificial intelligence algorithms …

Research and publishing have always been closely related but are currently undergoing changes. Informed by technological and cultural developments, their practices and definitions are being debated. For new forms of interdisciplinary and artistic research, there is a corresponding need for new forms …