As a resident of Breda, Daan was intrigued by the many urban voids in the city. How can a city, full of such empty spaces, also have a shortage of areas to build housing? After researching Breda's urban voids, he noticed that these voids can be categorized according to the type of void (spatial, functional …

Vacant land can provide social and ecological benefits to cities as they are informally used by people and spontaneously populated by animals and plant-life. However, planners and policy makers often frame vacant land as ‘empty’, ‘blank’ spaces, making it difficult to acknowledge informal and more-than-human …

Dit eindrapport doet verslag van een door ZonMw gesubsidieerd, ontwerpgericht onderzoek (looptijd maart 2022 – juni 2024) met de volgende onderzoekvraag: Wat zijn de ontwerpprincipes voor jeugdparticipatieve pedagogische vrijplaatsen, die bijdragen aan een veerkrachtige identiteitsontwikkeling van jongeren? …

This article investigates the aesthetic advice posted by temporary employment agencies on their websites. These agencies organise a substantial part of the Dutch labour market and they are known to apply exclusionary practices in their strategies of recruitment and selection in order to meet employers’ …

Hof van den Houte’ is the new name for a shopping and housing district in the present heart of Etten-Leur, once the site of a castle by the same name between the villages Etten and Leur. The site was still an open field when a modern freestanding shopping mall was built in the 1960s to serve the growing …

Greater New Orleans is surrounded by wetlands, the Mississippi River and two lakes. Excess rain can only be drained off with pumping systems or by evaporation due to the bowl-like shape of a large part of the city. As part of the solution to make New Orleans climate adaptive, green infrastructure has …

Many nature-based solutions are seen as favourable and effective measures to increase urban resilience during more extreme weather events, by for example decrease high temperatures in summer. Since space is often scarce in urban environments, roofs have received increased attention in mitigating the …

Abstract BackgroundFrailty is a syndrome that is defined as an accumulation of deficits in physical, psychological, and social domains. On a global scale, there is an urgent need to create frailty-ready healthcare systems due to the healthcare burden that frailty confers on systems and the increased …

Dit afstudeeronderzoek is uitgevoerd in het kader van het ZonMw-project Empty Farm to Fill, in de startfase van het project (voorjaar 2022). Op Landgoed Sparrenhof in Tilburg is van maart 2022 tot en met juni 2024 samen met jongeren ontwerpgericht onderzoek gedaan naar de ontwerpprincipes van pedagogische …

In deze deelstudie is literatuuronderzoek gedaan naar het concept 'vrijplaatsen' binnen diverse maatschappelijke contexten, ook in historisch perspectief. Vervolgens wordt op twee vragen een antwoord gezocht: Wat maakt vrijplaatsen pedagogisch? Wat kan de waarde en rol zijn van de kunsten bij het ontwerpen …