Malaysia’s urban poor have been successfully rehoused in high-rise buildings during the country’s rapid development. However, quality of life and livelihoods in these complexes are deteriorating, widening inequalities. Considering housing as a complex system, this case study designed an iterative place-based …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the insights gained by testing in a design studio a particular research-by-design strategy, focusing on the generation of innovative solutions for climate change adaptation. The strategy is based on the Design Thinking Process and has been applied in the climate …

Throughout society, dialogues about Artificial Intelligence (AI) are dominated by a range of technophobic or techno-solutionist narratives. Both these narratives share a technological focus. To develop responsible AI, however, it is important to look at the systemic ecological and societal underpinnings …

Innovation in the 21st century has been moving continuously away from the model embraced in the last century, which was characterized as a profit-oriented and silo-targeted one. Currently, the logic is being driven towards “the social” sense and value of the transformation within the reality of complexity …

Frederiek Bennema introduceert foerageren als een strategie voor leren en onderzoeken binnen het hoger kunstonderwijs; en als een praktijk en een houding gericht op ecologisch denken, zorg en dialoog. Dit artikel wil inzicht bieden in foerageren en hoe het studenten helpt te navigeren door het landschap …

This paper presents three lesson activities for upper secondary and higher education that focus on learning by constructing an interactive qualitative representation. By constructing the representation learners learn domain knowledge as well as general system thinking skills. The learning goals and the …

This paper presents three qualitative models that were developed for the Stargazing Live! program. This program consists of a mobile planetarium that aims to inspire and motivate learners using real telescope data during the experience. To further consolidate the learning experience three lessons are …

De van oorsprong kunsteducatieve methode Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) toont overeenkomsten met receptieve werkvormen die binnen de beeldende therapie worden ingezet. Toch wordt de methode op dit moment nog weinig ingezet voor (vak)therapeutische doeleinden. In dit praktijkonderzoek is daarom onderzocht …

Creative arts engagement has been shown to be related to maintaining wellbeing in older adulthood (Tymoszuk et al., 2019). For people living with dementia, music can be engaging and rewarding (Baird & Thompson, 2018), and is often presented as a therapeutic activity. It is theorised that music’s capacity …

This publication is a report of the summer research School symbiocene, which took place at Zeeburgereiland amsterdam between the 28th and 30th of june 2023. This summer research school is anInitiative of an kramer, action researcher of the Symbiocene, in collaboration with Inholland University of applied …