How to conceptualize online sociability in the 21st century? To answer this question, Communities at a Crossroads looks back at the mid-2000s. With the burst of the creative-entrepreneur alliance, the territorialisation of the internet and the commercialization of interpersonal ties, that period constituted …

Tijdens de Hanze Research Day is BioPower2Gas gepresenteerd door middel van deze posterpresentatie

The first part of this paper provides a series of conceptual critiques to illustrate how the recent move to inaugurate a “post-nature” world works to vindicate anthropocentric perspectives and a techno-managerial approach to the environmental crisis. We contend with this premise and suggest that troubling …

Robotica onderwijzen in de basisschool De hedendaagse samenleving heeft burgers nodig die beschikken over de kennis en vaardigheden die nodig zijn om verantwoordelijk en op een zinvolle wijze deel te nemen aan de op technologie gebaseerde wereld om hen heen. Het is daarom algemeen aanvaard dat onderwijs …

Writing like Tzara is fun but we’ve left the 20th century and there is no way back. Warfare and boredom have merged on the timeline of our digital daily life. Sharing ain’t no caring. The more riots and killings, the more likes. Twitter tells us it’s yet another horrified Isis video turned viral, watched …

This paper investigates the limits and efficacies of the Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) material for strengthening mid-rise RC buildings against seismic actions. Turkey, the region of the highest seismic risk in Europe, is chosen as the case-study country, the building stock of which consists in its …

The Autumn 2015 edition is a special issue of non-fiction and artwork on the subject of technê and technology. This issue confronts the difficult questions of our time: Where are these tools and technologies leading us? What does it mean for the natural world and our own humanity? And how do we live …

The increase in renewable energy sources will require an increase in the operational flexibility of the grid, due to the intermittent nature of these sources. This can be achieved for the gas and the electricity grid, which are integrated by means of power-to-gas and vice versa, by applying gas and other …

1e alinea column: Natuurlijk is technologie leuk. Natuurlijk is het fijn als je in een warm huis thuiskomt omdat je smartphone eerder via plaatsbepaling heeft vastgesteld dat je op weg naar huis bent en via het M2M internet de verwarming vast heeft aangezet. Ik zie heel veel praktische, nuttige en soms …