The Spring of 2020 brought many disruptions to our professional and personal lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced worldwide mid-semester campus closures; pivoting of traditional, face-to-face classes to remote teaching and learning; and postponements or cancellations of conferences, workshops, …

This project leaves from the fundamental conviction that the transition towards more sustainable futures is not only a transition of businesses, technology or design – but fundamentally happens in our inner worlds, our values, mindsets and worldviews in relation to our connection with others and reported …

BACKGROUND: Social inequalities in bodyweight start early in life and track into adulthood. Dietary patterns are an important determinant of weight development in children, towards both overweight and underweight. Therefore, we aimed to examine weight development between age 5 and 10 years by ethnicity, …

Background: Poor motor skill competence may influence energy balance with childhood overweight as a result. Our aim was to investigate whether the age of motor milestone achievement has changed over the past decades and whether this change may contribute to the increasing trend observed in childhood …

Een living lab is een regionale structuur waarin onderwijs samenwerkt met bedrijfsleven, overheid en burgers aan maatschappelijke problematiek. Interview met o.a. Toine Smits, lector Circular Economy and Water Resources Management aan hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein.

Voor behoud en beheer van natuur is het erg belangrijk dat mensen zich betrokken voelen bij natuur, maar ook dat ze zich organiseren om gezamenlijk een bijdrage te kunnen leveren. Veel natuurorganisaties zullen herkennen dat het lastig is om mensen en vooral jongeren te organiseren rondom natuurgerichte …

Ulus Baker (1960 – 2007) was a Turkish-Cypriot sociologist, philosopher, and public intellectual. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960. He studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where he taught as a lecturer until 2004. Baker wrote prolifically in influential Turkish journals …

This chapter examines how the Berlin neighborhood of eastern Kreuzberg attained its mythical image as a youth culture neighborhood. It combines theories of myth-making and canonization with the concept of preference construction, thereby developing new tools to assess how certain ideas and images (e.g. …

MANIFESTO If you have legs so white as milk, or only have one leg… If you get red cheeks during the most inconvenient times… If you listen to punk during your daily yoga exercises… If you sound like a horse when someone makes you laugh… If you wear multiple layers of clothing, even in summer… If you …