Several studies show that climate change has a mental impact on many young people. Given the number of young people who experience mental burdens related to climate change, and the relative novelty of climate change as a theme in youth development, it is important to explore the core elements of their …

Over the last five years, I have found myself circling around four key concepts: Performance. Philosophy. Animals. And Equality. And I have found myself thinking in and with circles. It began with the various references to circles we can find in the philosophy of Henri Bergson - in his idea of the field …

Western cities are rapidly densifying, and new building typologies are being invented to mitigate high-rise and balance residential, commercial and recreational functions. This vertical urbanization requires rethinking the traditional design of public space to promote citizens’ well-being. While the …

Western cities are rapidly densifying, and new building typologies are being invented to mitigate high-rise and balance residential, commercial and recreational functions. This vertical urbanization requires rethinking the traditional design of public space to promote citizens’ well-being. While the …

[ENG] Water Nation is an artistic research project and short film exploring archival footage of the Institute of Sound & Vision of flooding in The Netherlands. Told from the artist’s perspective it is a reflection on how to connect and make climate change and the Dutch history around water and flooding …

Human beings are, above all, narrative creatures, extremely sensitive to good stories. The (implicit) stories of futurologists have their own characteristic structure, when they outline what our future full of technology will look like. One element of their narrative structure is often that the speaker, …

In dit educatief ontwerponderzoek staat het ontwikkelen en testen van het model voor Taalondersteunend Lesgeven door Dans centraal. Dit TOLD-model geeft dansdocenten handvatten om lessen te ontwerpen die de taalontwikkeling van NT2-kleuters ondersteunen en is ontwikkeld met een literatuuronderzoek. Het …

The target group was: elderly citizens. The felt unheard. The central theme of the conference was how can we stimulate that we are heard and seen and our interests are being taken care of. In this presentation I told about citizens initiatives in general, giving best practices and presenting the right …

The days where memes were plain image macros (an image that consists out of an imagecombined with text) are long behind us. New meme formats, some more obscure than others,are popping up like weeds. Memetic logics are also moving beyond the image into ‘the realworld’ (whatever that may be), but that’s …

From October 1980 until May 1981, the Heritage Department of the municipality of Utrecht excavated 173 burials and 40 charnel pits at the former St. Jobsgasthuis. The focus of this thesis is on the skeletal research of the buried individuals in the chapel of the St. Jobsgasthuis. The individuals buried …