This conceptual essay examines why Integral Sustainable Entrepreneurship (ISE) is an essential enabler for long-term value creation under conditions of ecological and societal constraints. Dominant shareholder-oriented economic models prioritize short-term financial performance and tend to overlook ecological …

In the past years, professional musicians of participatory music practices in healthcare contexts have increasingly worked as artistic allies for care. The musicians shaping these practices have developed ways of engaging with patients and their families, collaborating with healthcare professionals, …

Context: Rapid developments and adoption of machine learning-based software solutions have enabled novel ways to tackle our societal problems. The ongoing digital transformation has led to the incorporation of these software solutions in just about every application domain. Software architecture for …

Building on the metaphor of teachers as “knowing locations,” this contribution explores how teachers impact the socio-material learning environments. We illustrate how they influence teaching/learning making by zooming into two distinct settings: secondary school educational labs (E-labs) and art academy …

This article explores the integration of a co-mentoring scheme within the participatory music practice of Meaningful Music in Healthcare (MiMiC) in Dutch medical hospitals. Building upon prior research that revealed a shared aspiration among MiMiC musicians and nurses to enhance collaborative efforts, …

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is a biodegradable bioplastic that can be produced by bacteria when consuming a carbon source. Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are used as building blocks for PHA bioplastics and can be efficiently produced from organic waste through anaerobic digestion. However, the variable composition …

Deluge: a conversationFriday 28th February, 2025Organised alongside the exhibition, this community conference will conclude three years of research and artwork. The event will include conversations and presentations from the Deluge artists, ecologists and salt marsh experts, connecting the three tidal …

In this paper, we draw on our subjective experiences as Early Career Academics (ECAs) at a Dutch University to demonstrate our complex relationship between academic life and parenthood. Building on the sensemaking literature, we employ a collective autoethnography to unveil six distinct new parent scripts …

Thinking about the music we use in our music teaching is crucial. The meaning of music is relational, arising from the entanglement between the music and the person, the ‘musicker’ as Christopher Small would say. The idea of entanglement gives rise to many interesting questions about musical repertoires, …