In the field of climate change adaptation, the future matters. River futures influence the way adaptation projects are implemented in rivers. In this paper, we challenge the ways in which dominant paradigms and expert claims monopolise the truth concerning policies and designs of river futures, thereby …

Worldwide, rivers face challenges due to human and climatic pressures. Floods, droughts, pollution, damming and hydropeaking are only a few examples of these pressures and influence the way rivers are managed. We invite river-experts, river-managers and river-researchers for an open discussion to understand …

Digital maker culture is increasingly studied for its impact on production and consumption patterns, technological innovation, educational potential and citizen engagement in design and technology. As making practices proliferate globally and begin to institutionalise, research …

Presentatie aan de hand van de tekst uit het proefschrift getiteld: At the heart of Art and Earth (2013, pp. 56-57) van Jan van Boeckel

Over a period of seven months, I intensively dealt with the question of whether Michael Chekhov's acting method can be transferred to the musical laws of the jazz genre. This research project consists of two phases of an action driven research design. In the first phase, I narrowed down my method through …

In einer Zeitspanne von sieben Monaten habe ich mich intensiv mit der Frage auseinandergesetzt, ob die Schauspielmethode von Michael Chekhov sich auf die musikalischen Gesetze des Jazz Genre übertragen lässt. Diese Forschung besteht aus zwei Phasen eines Aktions-Forschungsdesigns. In der ersten Phase …

Natalie Bookchin’s work is synonymous with the Video Vortex network and the rise of YouTube. Whereas we got to know each other’s work in the turbulent net.art late nineties years, this particular story started with a DVD I got from Natalie, containing The Trip (2008), a video collection of early YouTube …

‘The network is everlasting’ wrote Robert Filliou and George Brecht in 1967, a statement that, at first glance, still seems to be true of today’s world. Yet there are also signs that the omnipresence of networks is evolving into another reality. In recent times, the limits of networks rather than their …

In recent literature, much attention has been paid to factors that affect nuclear deterrence and stability from the outside: new missile defence systems, non-nuclear (conventional) high-precision long-range weapons, the in fl uence of third and threshold nuclear states, space weapons, and — more recently …