By the second half of the 20th century, the "New Age" phenomenon had completely permeated American culture, with astrology as the main character, gaining broader consumer popularity in the United States. This interest was shared by many African Americans at that time, and would come to be of increasing …

Workshop with clay: Silent becoming, Metamorphoses of organic forms

Background: Modern modeling techniques may potentially provide more accurate predictions of dichotomous outcomes than classical techniques. Objective: In this study, we aimed to examine the predictive performance of eight modeling techniques to predict mortality by frailty. Methods: We performed a …

A pedagogy of attention to the light in the eyes: Environmental education in a new key

Workshop in het aan elkaar beschrijven en tekenen van afbeeldingen van planten, op basis van werk van Karl Blossfelft. Locatie: Groninger Museum.

The setting is the intensive course Art and Sustainability Education that I teach annually as Professor in Art Education at the Estonian Academy of Arts. This time, in the autumn of 2018, I am with ten students and we have gathered for four days in Arbavere, a resort on the periphery of Lahemaa National …

Older people are often over-represented in morbidity and mortality statistics associated with hot and cold weather, despite remaining mostly indoors. The study “Improving thermal environment of housing for older Australians” focused on assessing the relationships between the indoor environment, building …

Some of the most striking accounts of the inventive power of imagination come from former prisoners who have spent time in solitary confinement. In these testimonies, they relate how their imaginative capacity enabled them to keep their sanity, even in the most arduous circumstances. Somehow they managed …

This is a report of the research done during the Summer School 2022 at the Digital Methods Initiative (UvA). The work and the report were developed in collaboration with the participants in the datasprint: Gabrielle Aguilar // Federica Bardelli // Laura Bruschi // Miranda García // Giulia Giorgi // Matthew …