The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in December 2019 and the restrictive measures that were implemented to slow down the spread of the virus have had a significant impact on our way of life. The sudden shift from offline to online activities and work may have resulted in new cybersecurity risks. The present …

As the labor crisis keeps bringing stress among hospitality leaders making the subject of employee retention a key point on the agenda of every future-oriented business, the study comes as a support for Hotel Transilvania in designing a benefits scheme to ensure retention. The importance of benefits …

More and more non-Western brands and designers entering the fashion world introducing new values, narratives and aesthetics into a dominant Western Fashion discourse deeply intertwined with notions of conceptualism, modernism and postmodernism. In a moment of history where we are facing a failing fashion …

This is not a catalogue of finished work. This is also not a report of our collaboration on climate imaginaries. Instead, this zine offers a peek into an ongoing collaboration between artists, designers and researchers who have jointly turned their attention to the rising ocean. In riso-printed* collages, …

Various researchers have called for research into positive examples of successful TripleHelix-governed ecosystems. TripleHelix collaborations are seen as the solution to tackle the current ‘wicked problems’ of society. Researchers are encouraged to enhance our understanding of governing inter-organizational collaborations …

Story from the project Land-shapes, Sooth-scapes for a publication of VU Amsterdam presented at COP28 in Dubai 2023.

Failure is a popular topic of research. It has long been a source of study in fields such as sociology and anthropology, science and technology studies, privacy and surveillance, cultural, feminist and media studies, art, theatre, film, and political science. When things go awry, breakdown, or rupture …

With the world facing an ecological crisis, Hindus are challenged to reflect on the ways they impact their environment. The last few decades witnessed a rise of theological reflections on Hindu traditions—especially scriptures and concepts (not least by western scholars)—that advocate environmentally …

Een schets van de energieopgave voor monumenten, diverse inzichten over ruim 10 jaar onderzoek naar duurzaam erfgoed en huidige activiteiten op dit thema binnen het onderwijs en onderzoek.

This paper analyses the performativity of the sociotechnical imaginaries that the online communities interested in blockchain applications (e.g., cryptocurrencies) construct through the memes they share, in the context of a crisis of truth and amid pervasive precarity. These memes adopt a subcultural …