Voordracht voor bestuur en adviseurs van Kunstraad Groningen.

Presentatie Arts Based Research. Hoe worden artistieke strategieën bij het doen van onderzoek ingezet? Welke onderzoeksmethodieken zijn nodig om ruimte te geven aan het niet-weten en het onverwachte? Hoe kunnen onderzoekers hun artistieke kwaliteiten inzetten en in welke fases van het onderzoeksproces? …

Introduction to the Expert Meeting of November 21, 2014.Photography is by nature a medium that bridges distances in time and space. It is indexical in its nature to the object and it kind of speaks back to the researcher.

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education is generally viewed upon as being important for economic growth in the 21st century. Teaching entrepreneurship however seems to need another approach to fulfill the changing needs. In this perspective active learning and constructivism is generally seen …

In celebration of the anniversary of the Hanze University and Academy Minerva in the year 2013, the research group Popular culture, Sustainability and Innovation (Centre of Applied Research and Innovation Art & Society) and Academy Minerva presented the first edition of the Energize Festival for sustainable …

“In-Between” is the title of this conference. If I am right, it focuses on the role of the artist as a middle-man, or middle-woman, between art and learner. It focuses, maybe, on the way artists are capable to transfer knowledge, skills, attitudes, insights, emotions of an artistic nature. And it focuses, …

Author version of opiniating article (Dutch) in national newspaper Trouw, appeared under the title 'Zingen, dat is beter dan muziekonderwijs'. Plea for singing in primary schools.

The divide between us and the rest of nature has been attributed to various root causes: the growing disenchantment of the world, the loss of direct experience and lately the replacement of the real with simulations of it. Modernity's move away from the natural world has also generated countervailing …

Conference report ´The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur´, Polifonia 3, The Hague (NL), 19-20/9/2014.

Spoken Column – Opening of the Academic Year 2014-15 of Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, September 1 2014.