Underground culture and non-institutional arts of Eastern Europe, North America and Western Europe of the 1970s/1980s often included experimentation with the dispensation of individual signatures and identities, in favor of pseudonyms and collective-anonymous identities. This included dispensation of …

The Future of Conservation survey, launched in March 2017, has proposed a framework to help with interpreting the array of ethical stances underpinning the motivations for biological conservation. In this article we highlight what is missing in this debate to date. Our overall aim is to explore what …

Dit onderzoek is gedaan in opdracht van de social enterprise EARTH Concepts, waarbij de wensen van B2B-klanten onderzocht werden. Deze wensen waren gericht op de behoeften rondom point-of-sale (POS-)materiaal dat het verhaal achter de EARTH-producten moet communiceren naar consumenten.

Ecocentrism is the broadest term for worldviews that recognize intrinsic value in all lifeforms and ecosystems themselves, including their abiotic components. Anthropocentrism, in contrast, values other lifeforms and ecosystems insofar as they are valuable for human well-being, preferences and interests. …

Pokémon Go, Facebook check-ins, Google Maps, public transport apps and especially smartphone apps are increasingly becoming traceable and locatable. As ‘check-in’, features in social media and games grow in popularity they pinpoint users in relation to everything else in the network, making physical …

A presentation for two Rotaryclubs, one from the Netherlands and the other from Germany focussing on the living lab.

According to the critics of conventional sustainability models, particularly within the business context, it is questionable whether the objective of balancing the social, economic and environmental triad is feasible, and whether human equality and prosperity (as well as population growth) can be achieved …

Due to a number of factors outlined in this article, the issue of population growth is excluded from the sustainability discussion. In this article, we explore some of the ethical presumptions that underlie the issues linking population growth and sustainability. Critics argue that action to address …

Case study of “The Plain Indians: artists of earth and sky” exhibition at the musée du quai Branly. [Book chapter]

Botanical Dunes finds its connection within the Foreshore project, which is dedicated to generate new qualitative coastal tourism. Botanical Dunes ensures a turnaround in the destruction of the present Dutch Dune-scape. Active Architecture offers elements which will revitalize the Dune-scape of – Natura …