This cross-cultural study examines the relationship between perceived COVID-19 changes due to the impacts on everyday life by the pandemic with social exclusion and across 32 cultures and their levels in collectivism. With data from the start of the first outbreak from March 2020 to June 2020 (N = 9245), …

‘Compounding Waalwijk. Transformation of the urban core’. The monofunctional shopping center in Waalwijk is no longer functioning. How can this location, in phases, be transformed for Waalwijk to regain its regional importance and revitalizing existing identity nodes? Inspired by midsize utopia, New …

The Capucine cloister in Tilburg was established in the 19th century along one of the routes leading out of the city center, as part of the urban expansion that was then taking place. Nearby a nunnery can be found at the other end of a park, the whole being enclosed by a long wall. Now the place has …

‘International Hub Center, a connective student village in Maastricht.’ Can a university city like Maastricht do better in getting international students involved in the local community and making them prolong their stay to the benefit of the city? From his own experience as a foreign student the designer …

This paper investigates the role of conversational AI in improving the quality of decision-making across different stages of the process. Drawing on an experimental study involving 113 students in Dutch higher education, participants engaged in a simulated business challenge using three approaches: no …

Wineries are not new in the Netherlands, but they still are mostly small scale and for this reason have separate locations for growing the vines and processing the grapes. This design project outlines a different scenario, where vacant agricultural plots are combined into a large whole and can support …

Tussen Arnhem en Nijmegen is in het kader van het Vinex-beleid de laatste tientallen jaren heel veel gebouwd. Het is een zoektocht geweest om daarbij zowel stad als platteland te laten profiteren van de ontwikkelingen die daar plaats hebben gevonden en nog steeds plaatsvinden. Wat zijn de uitgangspunten …

The SynergyS project aims to develop and assess a smart control system for multi-commodity energy systems (SMCES). The consortium, including a broad range of partners from different sectors, believes a SMCES is better able to incorporate new energy sources in the energy system. The partners are Hanze, …

In de afgelopen twintig jaar hebben milieuregelgevingen en habitatherstelprojecten geleid tot een sterke toename van libellenpopulaties in Europa. Uit onderzoek naar libellenpopulaties in de Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen (AWD) blijkt dat het aantal libellensoorten daar de afgelopen tien jaar sterk heeft …