As part of the international research and design project StreetWorks: Patterns in Urbanity, professor of Design in Urbanism Henk Hartzema, together with students from the Academy, explored and researched the function of the street in six European cities, each with a population of around 1 million residents: …

The commencement of the Single European market by the signing of the Single European Act led to the foundation of public procurement. Public procurement is the process of purchasing public works, supplies and services by states and their governing bodies in which they have to act transparent, non discriminatory …

Met bijdragen van Matthijs Rotte, Niniane Veldhoen, Kevin Oudshoorn, Tom Jansen, Wiel van Horck, Bram Koopman, Joshua Hazelaar. Bevat samenvattingen van de eerste afstudeeropdrachten (2009) van het lectoraat Crossmedia.

There has probably never been such an intense debate about the layout of the countryside as the one that is currently raging. There are serious concerns about the landscape, which is being rapidly transformed by urbanization and everything associated with this process, and not only in the Netherlands …

The Internet is changing the way we organise work. It is shifting the requirement for what we call the ‘schedule push’ and the hierarchical organisation that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

The musical landscape in Europe shows a complex picture. Societal change leads to change in the careers of artists. We see an increasing number of unstable jobs in the music profession. It no longer offers many opportunities for full-time, long-term contract work, but is often more project-based, calling …

This past summer, three Belgian intellectuals held a conversation for Open about the renewed attention to the 'makeability' of city and society. Moderated by sociologist Pascal Gielen, philosopher Lieven de Cauter, urban designer Michiel Dehaene and sociologist Rudi Laermans discuss such topics as the …

Many visitor studies make social background variables the central point of departure to explain participation patterns. How the past is 'staged', however, also has an influence on those to whom it appeals. This relational perspective calls for new conceptual tools to grasp empirical reality. Inspired …

This thesis is an overview of the market and management for WEEE (waste of electrical and electronic equipment) in Bulgaria. It was executed to answer certain questions to WEEE Forum, which was my internship provider. Chapter 2 analyzes the WEEE market and business developments in Bulgaria. Chapter 2.1 …