While Making is often seen as a hedonistic pass-time activity, is it attracting growing interest in many industries. Globally, big players have started to fund Fab Lab on a substantial scale. Schlumberger is supporting the development of Fab Labs in Russia, Aramco sponsored the first Fab Lab in Dhahran …

This book contains five views and architectural proposals for Cape Town, South Africa. The design project is a 3rd year project (P5) at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Two lecturers and five students visited Cape Town in 2014, The metropolitan region of Cape Town has grown rampant for decades. …

Paper in symposium: ‘International Perspectives on the Professional Development of Teacher Educators in Contemporary University Contexts’. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, USA. In this paper we examine the development of the professional …

This current green paper deals with innovation in facility management (FM), a subject which is at the heart of Working Group 3, in benefit of the EuroFM Research Network. It aims to stimulate discussion and further collaborative work, and to generate new knowledge for the European FM community. We do …

TU Delft has started working on its third satellite mission called DelFFi, which is planned for a launch in 2015. In this graduation project spanning 17 weeks, a faulttolerant storage system consisting of three SD cards was designed, implemented and tested for DelFFi that utilizes triple-modular redundancy …

Analysing the questions “How profitable is the industry made with war and can peace become a profitable business as well?” is very difficult, as it is important to not just identify the profits made by the arms industry, but also to identify the industry focused on peace and built around connected values. …

Despite changing attitudes towards animal testing and current legislation to protect experimental animals, the rate of animal experiments seems to have changed little in recent years. On May 15–16, 2013, the In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform (IVTIP) held an open meeting to discuss the state of the …

The implementation of innovative sustainability technologies often requires far reaching changes of the macro environment in which the innovating firms operate. Strategic management literature describes that firms who want to commercialize an innovative technology can collaborate in networks or industry …

This book has been written for musicians who want to engage with audiences beyond the concert hall and other traditional venues. The study is equally worthwhile for conservatoires and music academies aiming to change the increasingly unrealistic goal of training young musicians solely for the stage. …

This books describes the content, goals and methods used in the course Research & Development/New Media Art Practices. ‘It opened up research terrains, and confronted me with art practices I had never even thought of’ said a university student when asked what she had gained from the course Research & …