We present a novel hierarchical model for human activity recognition. In contrast with approaches that successively recognize actions and activities, our approach jointly models actions and activities in a unified framework, and their labels are simultaneously predicted. The model is embedded with a …

Participate! Cultuurparticipatie & sociale cohesie. Muziekverenigingen spelen van oudsher een grote rol in het sociaal-culturele leven in de huidige Noordelijke krimpregio's. De afgelopen decennia traden orkesten steeds meer uit de schaduw van de kerktoren in het dorp. Lukt het ze ook vandaag nog om …

Presentatie dissertatie 'Musicking in Groningen' in Master Kunsteducatie van Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 9/11/2015.

Paper gepresenteerd tijdens 6. Tagung Netzwerk Forschung Kulturelle Bildung ‘Kultur, Macht, Bildung’, Lüneburg, DE

April 2015 Sudanese photographer Elsadig Mohamed and I tried to relate the photographs that Paul Julien made when traveling through the country in 1933 and 1948 to stories and realities alive in present day Sudan. This initial research was pretty successful and we thought a first presentation of the …

Paper presented at the 43rd World Conference van de International Council for Traditional Music ICTM, Astana, Kazakhstan,

Politieke kunstenaars zoeken de spanning tussen de wereld van de kunst en die daarbuiten. Ze willen met hun werk echt effect sorteren en ontwikkelen daarvoor verschillende strategieën. Hoe werken die?

Invited lecture for Symposium CityProms, Leeuwarden, 26/6/2015

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 …

Innovation Lab Healthy Ageing through Music & the Arts. Lecture at Long Live Arts! Conference, The Hague, 22-5-2015.