The 'AgroCycle' project investigates whether a cooperation of farms can become self-sufficient in energy and fertilization by using manure and organic waste streams for the production of energy, green fuel and green fertilizers by means of anaerobic digestion (AD). In the project, the project partners …

Met het project Samen Besparen hebben de gemeente Assen, de provincie Drenthe, Actium, i-Routes en de Hanzehogeschool Groningen een gezamenlijk lange termijn doel voor ogen gehad: het verduurzamen van een ‘robuust GGW-gebied’ (een gebied waarin de leefbaarheid onder druk staat en gebiedsgericht werken …

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In this chapter, the authors elaborate on serious games and playful interactions in modern scientific practices, and on the way they can engender mutual scientific growth. They use a research-through-design approach, in which three possible scenarios and prototypes are studied to envisage the new role …

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, …

In the debate about smart cities, an alternative to a dominant top-down, tech-driven solutionist approach has arisen in examples of ‘civic hacking’. Hacking here refers to the playful, exploratory, collaborative and sometimes transgressive modes of operation found in various hacker cultures, this time …

Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the “six degrees of separation” which have previously characterized many social networks, and breaking down many of the barriers to individuals communicating with each other. Some commentators suggest that this is having profound effects …

There is an urgent need to curb emissions and mitigate climate change, and this fight requires a change in teenagers’ attitudes. In search of new approaches targeting youth, online games are seen as a promising tool for communication and education. Using the serious game 2020 Energy as a case study, …

Het lectoraat Ondernemen in Verandering, een samenwerking tussen Hanzehogeschool en Alfa-college is de initiatiefnemer van dit vignet. De opstellers van het vignet (partners en medewerkers van het lectoraat; co-auteurs), Alexander Grit, Maaike de Jong, Eduard Plate en Eti de Vries beschrijven de uitgangspunten …

2007, the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning took the initiative to issue the social building blocks: real estate for facilities. This has been the first attempt to deal with social real estate professionally as an asset. In 2008 the professorship of public real estate started with its first Barometer …