The aim of the graduation project ‘Start-up bootcamp’ is to enable new connections between local shareholders: the booming gaming industry of Leeuwarden and the skateboarder community of the city. The project transforms a vacant church and garage into a campus where recreation, working and learning …

The ceristries are a new form of community centres. This community centres forms the new structure for a strong local network.

As a University of Applied Sciences located in Rotterdam, one of the most diverse cities in The Netherlands, we aspire to a diverse community, not only students but also of faculty and staff. While diversity is portrayed by the community's national, racial, class, (dis)ability, sexual and gender identity …

Design tasks in the Canal Zone abound but the opportunities are hidden in the citizens’ unspoken wishes. The urban community nowadays is complex. Problems that occur in our environment are layered and difficult to comprehend by an individual. By turning the traditional process inside out my role as an …

De beroepspraktijk van de musicus is net als de maatschappij aan verandering onderhevig. Orkesten, koren, operagezelschappen en gesubsidieerde muziekscholen worden uitgedund of opgeheven. Musici zullen als zelfstandig ondernemer een plek in de markt moeten veroveren. Alleen goed kunnen spelen of zingen …

Een analyse van de factoren die de slagingskansen van community arts en kwartiermakersprojecten in sociaal zwakkere milieus vergroten.

The European music profession is rapidly changing and suggests more flexible career patterns and a need for transferable skills and lifelong learning strategies. Musicians collaborate increasingly with practitioners in other arts and societal cross-sector settings. This reality holds challenges and implications …

This field report examines initiatives in music lifelong learning through the research network Lifelong Learning in Music (LLM) of the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Netherlands. LLM collaborates with other schools on various projects. As well, there is an innovative masters programme ‘New audiences …

Community music: interventie of dienst aan het idioculturele

In Community Art, visual and performing artists and theorists employ diverse modes of thinking and writing to explore the practices and concepts of the phenomenon of community art in western and non-western societies. The book does not offer a cut-and-dried theoretical model, but presents a new critical …