The transformation of an extended urban ensemble along the Karel de Grotelaan in Eindhoven explores the theme of revitalising social housing in postwar neighborhoods. The original open planning of five repetitive units of ample lawns aligned with 4 to 5 floors high apartment blocks in L-formation is …

The transformation of an extended urban ensemble along the Karel de Grotelaan in Eindhoven explores the theme of revitalizing social housing in postwar neighborhoods. The original open planning of five repetitive units of ample lawns aligned with 4 to 5 floors high apartment blocks in L-formation is …

Dit is de lectorale rede van Jeroen Linssen, lector Symbiotic AI bij het lectoraat Ambient Intelligence van Hogeschool Saxion. Artificial Intelligence maakt veel dingen mogelijk en werpt veel uitdagingen op. AI wordt steeds ‘slimmer’, maar worden wij dat zelf ook? Hoe gaan we verantwoord om met deze …

In the last month, the Visual Methodologies Collective participated in Regenerative Futures, a month-long design challenge to envision what a more desirable future could look like. Launched by SPACE10, a research and design lab based in Copenhagen, the call invited to use different AI generative models …

Self-organized industrial symbiosis (IS) starts with one actor's decision to invest in a waste recovery plant and the other actors' decision to buy the recovered flow. Technical and institutional conditions of the cluster influence actors' decisions. This paper explores the emergence of IS collaborations …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many firms reassessing how to deal with their communities. In this study, we focus on a coworking space and examine how the management staff and its coworking community reacted to the pandemic. The uniqueness of coworking spaces is that the community is both the paying …

The methodology of biomimicry design thinking is based on and builds upon the overarching patterns that all life abides by. “Cultivating cooperative relationships” within an ecosystem is one such pattern we as humans can learn from to nurture our own mutualistic and symbiotic relationships. While form …

This study was conducted to examine the factors contributing to the Farmer-Herder conflict in Akum village, Cameroon. The study further aimed at analyzing the effects of the conflict, stakeholder involvement and conflict resolution mechanisms proffered to help mitigate the conflict in Akum village. A …

Most endogenous viruses, an important proportion of eukaryote genomes, are doomed to slowly decay. Little is known, however, on how they evolve when they confer a benefit to their host. Bracoviruses are essential for the parasitism success of parasitoid wasps, whose genomes they integrated ~103 million …

The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever …