CLEMENS APPRICH, DAPHNE DRAGONA, GEERT LOVINK, AND FLORIAN WÜST - CONVERSATION MODERATED BY KRISTOFFER GANSING On August 6, 2019, the curatorial advisors of the transmediale 2020 exhibition, ‘The Eternal Network’, gathered at the festival’s offices in Berlin for a conversation on the status of network …

India is facing issues with the availability of vegetables and with water quality and availability especially in Maharashtra where the availability of water depends on the season. Drought years can have a severe impact on the agriculture production. The polyhouse can be a solution to increase the production …

Electric vehicles and renewable energy sources are collectively being developed as a synergetic implementation for smart grids. In this context, smart charging of electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technologies are seen as a way forward to achieve economic, technical and environmental benefits. The …

Since 2013, MoneyLab has explored questions around the design of money, the democratization of finance, and the new shifts in fintech.  On 14 and 15 November, the 7th edition of MoneyLab was held in Amsterdam. At MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance, we looked beyond the world of libertarian startups with …

In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

Dit afstudeerproject heeft plaatsgevonden op het Techno Centrum (TeCe) van de Radboud Universiteit in combinatie met de faculteit Sterrenkunde. Het TeCe ondersteunt momenteel het BlackGEM project. Dit project is een nieuwe telescoop, die voldoet aan de eisen van de faculteit. Het BlackGEM project ondervindt …

Op 1 januari werd de kick-off voor het Waterstofwijk project gegeven in Hoogeveen, zoals dit in Nijstad-Oost ook is begonnen. De doelstelling van dit project is om een (techno-economische) blauwdruk en bijbehorende technologie op te leveren om heel de warmtevoorziening, op basis van een waterstof CV-ketel, …

How to conceptualize online sociability in the 21st century? To answer this question, Communities at a Crossroads looks back at the mid-2000s. With the burst of the creative-entrepreneur alliance, the territorialisation of the internet and the commercialization of interpersonal ties, that period constituted …

Tijdens de Hanze Research Day is BioPower2Gas gepresenteerd door middel van deze posterpresentatie

The first part of this paper provides a series of conceptual critiques to illustrate how the recent move to inaugurate a “post-nature” world works to vindicate anthropocentric perspectives and a techno-managerial approach to the environmental crisis. We contend with this premise and suggest that troubling …