AbstractIn primary music education an important question is what school teachers can do to stimulate their students’ creative potential in music. To answer this question, looking closely into the creative processes happening in teacher-student interaction in the naturalistic setting of music lessons …

Biomimicry is an emerging discipline that seeks nature’s advice and brings diverse stakeholders together to create designs that emulate the way nature functions, not just the way it looks. The field itself is a multidisciplinary endeavor, yet biomimicry educators frequently work alone. Pedagogical methods …

Symposium in het kader van SDG Action Day (Sustainable Development Goals). Tijdens dit symposium was Jan van Boeckel de keynote speaker. Hij gaf een lezing, getiteld 'Mindful schizophrenia: Keeping one's sanity in face of the ecological emergency'. Daarna gaf hij een kleiworkshop met als titel 'Silent …

Presentatie op de kunstacademie Minerva voor een internationale groep studenten. Verschillende opleidingen op de kunstacademie focussen zich dit jaar op het thema klimaat. Ik werd daarom gevraagd input en inspiratie te geven door een introductie op het onderwerp klimaatadaptatie en de rol die kunst en …

Presentatie van openings-keynote op deze vijfde ClimateExistence conferentie in Zweden

How art can help us in finding connections to the more-than-human world?

The design research described in this report was conducted as part of the Catwalk: Forces of Nature exhibition that is part of Textiel Festival Twente, an outdoor art exhibition centered around textiles. This specific project was based on the concept of connecting in a disconnected world and providing …

Peatlands can be found in almost every country in the world, but we areonly just starting to realise their value and how to harness their potential asa powerhouse nature-based solution. The more we learn about peatlands,the more we value the important services they provide - controllingfloods, purifying …