The concert hall of Tilburg shares its premises with the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, in a combined design by Jo Coenen. They function separately, the concertgoer experiences another building than the student, yet an open-air courtyard in the center of the quadrangular building forms a uniting …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many firms reassessing how to deal with their communities. In this study, we focus on a coworking space and examine how the management staff and its coworking community reacted to the pandemic. The uniqueness of coworking spaces is that the community is both the paying …

A hospice for the terminally ill amid the buzzing and lively city center of Eindhoven, next to a bar district and a city square, yet also bordering on a green river zone. The set program for a hospice is extended with a diversified program, including social and recreational spaces open to the public …

In a society with increasingly unequal access to opportunities and an expanding pressure on youngsters to perform, safe spaces where socially vulnerable youngsters are allowed to learn and develop valuable skills are highly important. In the Youngsterdam project, professional youth workers support these …

The municipality of The Hague has been a member of the WHO's Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities since 2015. The municipality commissioned a survey to investigate how older citizens view the age-friendliness of their city. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a diverse sample …

This applied research project aims to generate a better understanding of the effects of heatwaves on vulnerable population groups in the municipality of The Hague, and suggests ways in which the municipality can help such groups to cope with these heatwaves. The research was performed as a cooperation …

Cities are constantly in transition. Spatial production worldwide is generated by governments, business, developers, informal settlers, et cetera; sometimes cities expand, but increasingly there is a process of reurbanisation of existing urban patterns contronted with deterioration, dysfunctionality, …

This chapter deals with the study of how deaf and hearing signers, and others, understand sign languages by themselves and in relationship to other languages and modalities. By doing linguistic ethnography, it is possible to investigate these language attitudes and ideologies as they unfold in everyday …

At the University of Applied Science Utrecht we have been working on optimising the sustainable use of space for a long time. There are various reasons for this, such as the high costs per square meter, the shortage of space at peak times and the vacancy rate at off-peak moments. There are complaints …