One of the tasks for higher education is to prepare students for their role in a changing world and to stimulate them to develop broader competencies than only in their own discipline. There are many initiatives in which existing curricula are redesigned to prepare students for this changing world. These …

One of the well-known advantages of working in intelligence is that you can have the undivided attention of your audience during a presentation, as they have left their personal devices in a locker. For teachers, getting students’ attention can sometimes be quite a challenge. In this regard, the added …

Welcome to the fourth special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine, Urgent Publishing Debris. In May 2019, the Making Public: Urgent Publishing Conference took place. Among others, it asked the following questions: -"How to realize sustainable, high-quality alternatives within this domain of post-digital …

In order to study education and development, researchers can choose among a plethora of methods. The Merriam-Webster dictionary tells us that “method” means: a procedure or process for attaining an object …such as …a systematic procedure, technique, or mode of inquiry employed by or proper to a particular …

As a professional you learn by regularly reflecting on your experiences. This means reflection is like walking along a path during which you can ask yourself a range of questions. The answers you find will enrich your insight and make you a more balanced professional.

QUOTE “In a movie, you have someone who can push the plot along verbally. But [with fashion], music and clothes are your whole plot”. [Rene Arsenault] ABSTRACT This study addresses the extent to which hip-hop music is capable of modifying a consumer’s perception of the luxury fashion brands mentioned …

This text has become a performance of (affirmative) entrepreneurship. This is done by a set of writing (and methodological) techniques: autoethnography, the triptych of mimesis, poiesis, kinesis and a life journey that forms the base of the chapter. As such, this text challenges some well-known shortcomings …

In order to apply smart charging it is key to be able to forecast the connection and charging time of charging sessions at the start of the connection. For, if you know how long a session will last, one can assign an appropriate smart charging strategy for that session. For instance by postponing the …

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 …

As a teacher in ICT and Media Design at Fontys University of Applied Sciences I know but all too well what many of my students want. They are part of a makers community. Most of them just want to build cool stuff with whatever (new) technology may be relevant. My students are by grosso modo millennials …