We hopen dat het nieuwe jaar voor iedereen goed is gestart. Ons lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken heeft de laatste periode van 2023 zeker niet stilgezeten. In deze nieuwsbrief delen we al deze activiteiten graag met jullie. Ook kun je lezen waar we op dit moment mee bezig zijn. De afgelopen periode …

Welkom bij de laatste nieuwsbrief van dit studiejaar van het lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken. We hebben de afgelopen tijd zeker niet stilgezeten en zullen in deze nieuwsbrief als vanouds ingaan op de belangrijkste activiteiten die we de afgelopen maanden hebben uitgevoerd. Dat doen we niet alleen, …

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building …

Few people I know act likea magnet in the way Laura does. If you hear her speak, see her move, enjoy her smile - you can't help but want to be a part of what makes her heart beat faster. She radiates passion for her dream topic biomimicry and before you know it you're caught in that dream. From the day …

The Institute of Network Cultures and the Learning Community Critical Making are proud to present the Post-Precarity Zine, a toolbox for beginning artists. Times have changed. The art world and the creative economy are no longer the ones we used to know. The digital economy, the pandemic, and the cuts …

Healthy Workplace conducts practice-oriented research into possible interventions to make the working environment healthier. Every year we organize a number of inspiration sessions to stimulate discussion about current topics. The 'Digitation of the Workplace' is on the agenda for this session. On the …

Uit onderzoek van PROUD en Soa Aids Nederland (Kloek & Dijkstra, 2018) is gebleken dat het merendeel van de daders die geweld gebruiken tegen sekswerkers afkomstig is uit de kring van klanten. In dit onderzoek is een verkenning in de gemeente Tilburg gedaan, waarbij de volgende onderzoeksvraag centraal …

Amateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures are proud to present a feminist finance zine titled ‘Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance’. It is a cooperative future-thinking effort from the MoneyLab network, a collective of artists, designers, researchers, geeks and activists dedicated to …

Amateur Cities and Institute of Network Cultures are proud to present Feminist Finance Syllabus, a supplement to the Feminist Finance Zine titled Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance. It is a result of the Twitter conversations that took place during three launch events of the zine between April …

I am proud to present the preface I wrote for Silvio Lorusso’s book, which came out in November 2018, in Italian, published by Krisis Publishing in Brescia, Italy. Here is the link if you want to know more about this title and order it. This is critical design theory at its best–Made in Europe. The text …