Recent advances in digital technologies profoundly influence our daily lives and work. While enabling solutions to societal issues, these technologies also demand new knowledge and skills from professionals. An increasingly common way for organizations to address this issue is to set up learning communities …

Openbare pleinen hebben een enorme impact op de levenskwaliteit van stadsbewoners, vooral in kwetsbare wijken. Ze kunnen lichaamsbeweging, gemeenschapsinteracties, spel en klimaatadaptatie vergemakkelijken, die allemaal de gezondheid van de lokale bevolking beïnvloeden. Er zijn echter vaak veel vragen …

Urban densification is promoted for sustainable urban growth, yet it also generates concerns about negative health impacts on local citizens. Engaging local citizens in the co-design of densification projects is therefore crucial to address their needs and concerns. The use of immersive Virtual Reality …

Handbook with practical information on the Erasmus+ sponsored Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Urban Transformation and Public Safety (UTPS), held in Porto (Portugal) Sept 31 - Oct 4, 2024.

Located in the Bakirkoy neighborhood near the Bosphorus coastline, this project addresses the progressive threat of earthquakes in Istanbul. The demand for a sizable and fully equipped resilience center is met by the transformation of an existing shopping mall, dating from the 1980’s. On the substructure …

In the last few years, many organisations of public and private origin representing the ecosystem have joined forces to combat societal challenges by means of mission-driven innovation. Although the organisation and collaboration among such organisations and individuals are already extremely challenging, …

A design for creative makers in M4H Rotterdam’. The design for five blocks of living & working space at the head of M4H in Rotterdam addresses both the need for workspace accommodations for creative makers in our large cities and the wish for mixed-use living/working space which is hardly met by present-day …

· As a platform for interdisciplinary applied research in the community setting, the living lab model offers a unique environment for the imagination of tourism interventions that can recast the activity as a force for good. Mandating a quadruple helix ecosystem, living labs encourage participation …

Presentatie van het praktijkgericht onderzoek naar waardencreatie in Woldwijk, tijdens het Symposium onderzoeksresultaten NoorderRuimte.

To model individuals' experience of urban spaces, this study integrates knowledge from environmental psychology and artificial intelligence to propose a framework for individuals' perceptions and emotion by incorporating individual characteristics and cognitive appraisal together with environment attributes …