City governments increasingly experiment with civic participation in the procurement and the realization of smart city technologies in order to improve the incorporation of human values. In this paper, a model is proposed with the level of participation, the continuity of participation and the extent …

Mediawijsheid staat niet op zichzelf, er is sprake van een generatiekloof. Dat stelt Bart Wernaart, lector Moral Design Strategy bij Fontys Hogeschool Economie en Communicatie (FEC). “Ik heb een redelijk groot vertrouwen in het techno-morele kompas van onze studenten.”

Steam generating heat pumps show great potential for reducing carbon emissions in the industrial sector. However, predicting their performance is challenging as the exergy destruction of e.g., compressors and expansion valves increases with the temperature lift and condenser temperature. With over seventy …

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building …

Jo-An Kamp is a lecturer and researcher at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She coaches ICT students in the fields of UX, research, (interactive) media, communication, (interaction) design, ethics and innovation. She does research on the impact of technology on humans and society. …

Self-organized industrial symbiosis (IS) starts with one actor's decision to invest in a waste recovery plant and the other actors' decision to buy the recovered flow. Technical and institutional conditions of the cluster influence actors' decisions. This paper explores the emergence of IS collaborations …

Jo-An Kamp is a lecturer, researcher and coordinator at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She coaches ICT students in the fields of UX, research, (interactive) media, communication, (interaction) design, ethics and innovation. She does research on the impact of technology on …

This book brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared semantics, this glossary converges the …

Er is in Nederland een duidelijke tendens naar het plaatsen van zonne-energiesystemen in de gebouwde omgeving, in plaats van grote installaties in het landelijk gebied. Onderdeel van deze ambitie is het maximaal benutten van de gehele gebouwschil voor energie-opwekking. In dit project is gericht op transparante …