The aim of this study is to better understand the individual construction of the experience of liveness at pop music concerts and to add knowledge to the field of measuring audience experience in performing arts. The study is based on a mixed-methods methodology, designed to overcome the common difficulties …

The concert hall of Tilburg shares its premises with the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, in a combined design by Jo Coenen. They function separately, the concertgoer experiences another building than the student, yet an open-air courtyard in the center of the quadrangular building forms a uniting …

Even in well-studied organisms, it is often challenging to uncover the social and environmental determinants of fitness. Typically, fitness is determined by a variety of factors that act in concert, thus forming complex networks of causal relationships. Moreover, even strong correlations between social …

This contribution presents three lesson activities for lower secondary education that were developed to teach system thinking in concert with subject matter. The pedagogical approach is described, leading to a practical design philosophy for lesson activities using qualitative representations. These …

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Het kost D/dove en slechthorende muziekliefhebbers veel moeite om een muziektolk in te zetten tijdens een concert of festival. Organisaties weigeren muziektolken vaak toe te laten met het argument dat “horende bezoekers zich ergeren aan en afgeleid worden door de muziektolk.” Dit onderzoek heeft als …

In leaving the more traditional territories of the concert performance for broader societal contexts, professional musicians increasingly devise music in closer collaboration with their audience rather than present it on a stage. Although the interest for such forms of devising co-creative musicking …

The Leidse Schouwburg-Stadsgehoorzaal is the umbrella organisation of the concert hall and the oldest theatre in the Netherlands in Leiden. The Leidse Schouwburg-Stadsgehoorzaal offers shows and concerts to a wide range of visitors. Within the organisation, there was no focus on the Customer Journey. …

April 2015 Sudanese photographer Elsadig Mohamed and I tried to relate the photographs that Paul Julien made when traveling through the country in 1933 and 1948 to stories and realities alive in present day Sudan. This initial research was pretty successful and we thought a first presentation of the …

N.a.v. een opgezet project in Zuid-Afrika hebben de onderzoekers onderzocht hoe docenten die werken met licht verstandelijk beperkte jongeren uit de townships in de leeftijd van 12-15 jaar muziek konden toepassen om het zelfvertrouwen te vergroten. N.a.v. dit onderzoek is een product ontwikkeld: een …