This paper aims to reconsider our cultural - and industry wide - reliance upon authentic identity in terms of fashion. Clothing has come to signify our personal beliefs and values, allowing for incessant (but acceptable, even honourable) consumption and change. Inadvertently, the shaky foundations of …

Precarity and budget cuts plague arts and culture while they are still recovering from the damages of the pandemic. Meanwhile, extreme right wing politics spreads across the world and increases censorship and repression on artists and cultural practitioners. How can creatives come together and build …

The "Na kaminda pa kosechá" (On the Road to Harvest) awareness campaign was implemented between May and September 2025 as part of the Living Lab Food Resilient Futures project on Bonaire. Guided by the research question "What levels of awareness and motivation exist regarding local food production on …

The Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Experiment on Sint Eustatius is part of the broader research project 'Food Resilient Futures in the Caribbean Netherlands', which aims to contribute to a prosperous society with a resilient population and a healthy natural environment. This experiment is situated within …

Het onderzoeksproject Food Resilient Futures in the Dutch Caribbean is een meerjarig praktijkgericht onderzoeksprogramma dat wordt uitgevoerd door een consortium van Nederlandse hogescholen, waaronder Van Hall Larenstein, Inholland, Aeres, HAS en NHL Stenden in samenwerking met lokale partners zoals …

Collaboration in experimental learning, innovation, and transition environments such as Living Labs can be complicated to carry out in practice. Designers and design researchers are often involved in these processes based on their intrinsic emphasis on transformation of the status quo towards new ways …

Today’s applied design researchers are where the action is. They have always operated as a catalyst of change: propelling and steering design and society into brighter futures. But now, more than ever, design researchers teamup with a broad range of stakeholders to get things done. They surround themselves …

Today’s applied design researchers are where the action is. They have always operated as a catalyst of change: propelling and steering design and society into brighter futures. But now, more than ever, design researchers teamup with a broad range of stakeholders to get things done. They surround themselves …

It happened tomorrow is an artistic research contribution, in the form of video loops on CRT monitors, to the Warming Up festival at Tolhuistuin in November 2024. It was part of the Kunstroute, a program running from November 7 to November 10, where visitors were guided through a series of installations …

This paper explores how so-called ‘Web3’ blockchain projects are materially and socially constituted. A blockchain is an append-only distributed database. The technology is being hyped as applicable for a whole range of industries, social service provisions, and as a fix for economic disparities in communities …