In the Netherlands, the position of the city center is transitioning from a place-to-buy to a place-to-be. This means that the city center is changing from a place where people come to shop, to a place where people come to meet and experience. This shift causes Municipalities to reevaluate the position …

The Antwerp Zoo has been chosen as the pilot location for a meeting place to rediscover nature in the center of a modern city. People look for nature and thus create places for such encounters in cities: a public garden, a botanical garden, a zoological garden. Life has always been subject to the limitations …

Presentatie ICI bij de voorjaarsronde van het College van Bestuur bij de School Instituut Facility Management SIFM

De nieuwe omgevingswet is een instrument dat ingezet kan worden om bewoners betrokkenheid te stimuleren. Waar liggen de kansen en waar de valkuilen?

The conference proceeding of 'The Values of Self-tracking and Persuasive eCoaching for a Workplace Stress Management Application' was presented during the 13th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2018

Take a chance to help people living in poverty! In 2016 and 2017; I conducted two different research projects in Gitega, Kigali-Rwanda. Gitega is a neighborhood in Kigali-Rwanda where sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement, maintenance of housing, transportation, …

CONCORDIA - the greatest level of craftsmanshipThe transformation of a former textile factory into a University of Craft with the ambition for a improvement strategy of a small Polish town, Bolesławiec. INTRODUCTION We are citizens of the world, we travel long distances and seek new advantures. But …

In 2017 Professor Nick Shepherd started the project 'The Walking Residency' at the Reinwardt Academy, enabling students and lecturers to connect places, identities, stories, climate, nature, people and animals with each other in new ways. Together with staff and students, he explored artistic research, …

Floods can be approached at a given location with two different concepts in mind: defending against floods or adapting to floods (Saurí-Pujol et al., 2001) (further, the option of mitigation exists, but this is a rather long-term and large-scale approach). First, resistance-based flood protection is …