This article focuses on the role of the artistic process in connecting to the natural environment. In my research I have explored what participants experience and learn when they engage in different types of arts-based environmental education (AEE) practices that I have facilitated. The premise of AEE …

… and longer-term post-disaster goals such as increasing … from the departments of Spatial Planning and Environment, … climate change adaptation and urban green space/urban gardening, …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the spatial implications of new learning theories and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a review of the literature, a theoretical framework has been developed that visualises …

In dit artikel (en keynote) schetst Nigten enkele grote veranderingen in onze samenleving en dagelijks leven en hoe dit samenhangt met onze kijk op techniek. Zij signaleert een verschuiving van techniek gestuurde innovatie naar innovatie door en met de eindgebruiker en hoe dit zich verhoudt tot technisch …

The Artist Organisations International conference, organised by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal and Joanna Warsza, took place in Berlin’s HAU theatre from 9 to 11 January 2015. The organisers emphasised how it seems that more and more activist artists are creating organisational structures that increase …

This booklet is a short reflection on the workshop activities by the research group, Popular culture Sustainability and Innovation (PSI), of the Hanze University in Groningen for the CCC Reloaded: CREALAB project over the last one and half years. Based on a series of explorative workshops this booklet …

In het project 'Ik zie, ik zie..' is de dementerende medemens een verre ander voor de kunstenaarstudenten. Om deze verre ander te ontmoeten is het nodig in jezelf te graven; vanzelfsprekendheden te ondervragen en de ander diep in de ogen te kijken. Waar ben je? Hoe kan ik je kennen en hoe kan jij mij …

This paper will focus on the role of artists and designers as agents of change in sustainability innovation. We will analyse the characteristics of this role on the basis of a review of literature that discusses various concepts, methodologies and strategies applied by artists and designers in innovation …

This paper argues that a first step in finding a sustainable solution for the pressing global issue of ‘waste’, is to consider waste a value attribution rather than a material condition. Doing so means a shift in focus from finding more efficient ways to ‘clean up the mess’ to changing the way in which …

Academy of the People is a project which ran from December 2012 to June 2013, in which students from Minerva Art Academy in Groningen developed critical site-specific artworks in the social environments of their research interests: in primary schools,religious centres and even police stations. In each …