Social issues are becoming increasingly pressing. From dementia to climate change to corona; we as people, citizens, residents and city users - through our own experience or otherwise - have a sense of them. However, truly understanding and addressing these issues is difficult because there is no single …

Background: The proportion of frail older adults is increasing and is expected to further increase in the coming years, both globally and in the Dutch population. This poses a great challenge to public health. To determine the prevalence of frailty in a population, a frailty index (FI) is recommended. …

This document aims to capture some of the ongoing trends and everyday life challenges in public space observed in Dutch cities since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. We interviewed professionals from municipalities, research organizations, NGOs and design and architecture agencies in the Netherlands, each …

In het 4-jarige onderzoeksproject Smart Cycling Futures (SCF) werkten wetenschap en praktijk nauw samen bij het uitproberen van uiteenlopende fietsinnovaties. Tegen de achtergrond van de uitdaging van steden en regio’s om leefbaar te blijven en zich duurzaam te ontwikkelen, is met een kernteam van vijftien …

All Gone is a series of experiments with AI that build on existing collections of climate fiction to create much-needed new climate imaginaries. As the climate crisis is also a “crisis of imagination” (Ghosh, 2016), this project turns to the art genre that is best at forecasting and imagining alternative …

Many contend that end-state planning is no longer either acceptable or feasible. However, outside the formal planning system, communities do conceive radical proposals for the places they live in. Our paper makes a plea for a renewed appreciation of Utopias by revealing the diversity of such imagined …

Seminar als deel van de inauguratie-ceremonie van lector Jan van Boeckel. Welkomstwoord Judith van der Elst, presentation Andri Snaer Magnason (IJsland), reactie Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy, HUAS, reactie Ina Horlings, Prof. Socio-spatial planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences (RUG), reactie …