The aim of this study is to determine the contribution of student interventions to urban greening processes. In two Dutch cities action research was conducted, including reflexive interviews a year after the first intervention, to assess factors causing change in the socio-ecological system. Results …

This advisory report has been written for the project Flavours of Málaga, which is aimed at women that live in the neighbourhoods of Málaga to improve their socio-economic position with the help of gastronomic heritage tourism. The second phase (Flavours of Málaga II) has recently started and focusses …

Deze scriptie beschrijft de socio-economische problemen van Europa in de 21e eeuw in relatie tot de groei van links-populisme in het zuiden van Europa. Omdat Podemos en SYRIZA de meest succesvolle links-populistische partijen zijn in Europa in deze eeuw worden deze bestudeerd in twee cases en wordt er …

Studying images in social media poses specific methodological challenges, which in turn have directed scholarly attention toward the computational interpretation of visual data. When analyzing large numbers of images, both traditional content analysis as well as cultural analytics have proven valuable. …

README.first is a bilingual collection of mini-essays, published in the run up to the Plokta filmfestival. We’ve asked writers, researchers, theorists, artists, programmers, and others to pick an online video that functions as a stepping stone for their thought and practice and to comment shortly on …

Parks are necessary for sustainable urban vitality. We studied the optimal availability of parks by combining open data sets with polygons and classification frameworks from urban planning literature. Both distance and population density should be considered as measures of availability when planning …

Constante vernieuwingen op het gebied van digitale technologie in zowel prive- als publieke omge­vingen kenmerken de huidige samenlevingen en benadrukken de alsmaar belangrijker wordende rol daarin voor socio-technische systemen. De uitdaging is om voorafgaand, tijdens en na de ontwikkeling van deze …

To facilitate energy transition, in several countries regulators have devised ‘regulatory sandboxes’ to create a participatory experimentation environment for exploring revision of energy law. These sandboxes allow for a two-way regulatory dialogue between an experimenter and an approachable regulator …

The purpose of this article is to explore innovative and adaptive ways of matching people with jobs in the context of a Dutch policy initiative aimed at the skills mismatch in the region of Amsterdam. This is an important and urgent issue because of the challenges of the future labor market, in which …

Due to socio-political issues in Dutch society, citizenship education (CE) became obligatory by law in the Netherlands in 2006. Schools were to decide on their local CE curriculum. This contribution intends to open up the black box of school-based curriculum-making efforts for CE. It reports on a four-year …