In the global pop music industries, revenue models have shifted from physical record sales to streaming services and live performances. At the same time, the supply of live music performances has changed as a result of festivalization. This study aims to understand the effects of festivalization on the …

In the light of global trends, such as increasing technological innovations and the increasing number of Coronavirus cases, along with the continuous growth of access to higher education, the importance of communities within universities and students’ integration is becoming unquestionable. This goes …

Malvern Panalytical is the manufacturer of diffractometers. Diffractometers are used to measure particle sizes and chemical composition. This project focuses on the sensor chip inside the machine. In the assembly of a machine, chips are tested in three different stages: first when the chips arrive on …

What’s online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? In the age of the smart phone, video accompanies, informs, moves, and distracts us. What started off with amateur prosumers on YouTube has spread to virtually all communication apps: say it with moving images. Are you addicted yet? …

This project leaves from the fundamental conviction that the transition towards more sustainable futures is not only a transition of businesses, technology or design – but fundamentally happens in our inner worlds, our values, mindsets and worldviews in relation to our connection with others and reported …

US new media artist Ben Grosser and I met at the 2013 Unlike Us #3 Institute of Network Cultures event in Amsterdam where he presented his Demetricator, a free web browser extension that hides all the metrics on Facebook. I have followed his work ever since. We got in contact again in 2019 when he premiered …

I have been limiting my news intake since week 2 of the corona crisis, saving it up for the evening, when I read the physical papers (Het Parool and NRC) and we watch the traditional 8 o’clock national news at NPO1, a Dutch habit I must have lost some 30 years ago. Around week 3 I discovered a series …

The increasing demand on renewable energy in the past decade resulted in the development of more windmill parks in the north-sea. The north-sea is an ideal sea for the development of offshore structures such as windmill parks due to its morphological benefits of being a shallow sea with soft soils consist …

This thesis is about my assignment to simplify a complex software product called RadiMation®. RadiMation® is an application, written in C++, and is used to automate a range of EMC testing. This document also has the purpose of providing information about how the interfaces and device drivers within …

This manual focuses on the initial phase of a (digital) publishing process. It offers methods to critically examine the narrative structures of content and explore alternative conceptions of a publication. By raising the question of how modular publishing can be used as a way to create, edit and structure …