Videos of the opening and keynote presentation, the panel discussion and the CIE aftermovie.
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Western cities are rapidly densifying, and new building typologies are beinginvented to mitigate high-rise and balance residential, commercial andrecreational functions. This vertical urbanization requires rethinking thetraditional design of public space to promote citizens’ well-being. While the scarce studies on high-rise environments indicate several risks, including social fragmentation and privatization of public functions (Henderson-Wilson 2008; Love et al., 2014), mental stress and undermining attention restoration (Mazumder et al., 2020; Lindal & Hartig 2013), evidence on the potential salutary and mitigating effects of architectural design qualities is limited (Suurenbroek & Spanjar 2023).The Building for Well-being research project combines biometric and socialdata-collection techniques to address this gap. It builds on studies investigatinghow built environments allow user engagement (Mallgrave 2013; Simpson2018) and afford important activities (Gibson 1966). This case study focuseson the experiences of predominant users of the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdamas it is transformed from a post-industrial site into a high-density, mixeduseneighborhood. Using eye-tracking, field and laboratory-based surveys, itexplores how residents, passers-by and visitors visually experience, appreciateand perceive the restorative value of the wharf’s recently developed urbanspaces.Thirty-six university students were randomly recruited as test subjects for thelaboratory test and assigned to one of the three user groups. The residentand passer-by groups were primed for familiarity. Each group was assigneda distinct walking mode and participants were told to imagine they werestrolling (residents), rushing (passers-by) or exploring (visitors). The exposuretime to visual stimuli of participants was five seconds per image. Afterwards,they reported on the perceived restorative quality of ten urban spaces,focusing on: (1) sense of being away, (2) level of complexity-compatibilityand (3) fascination, based on an adapted Restorative Components Scale (RCS,Yin et al. 2022; Laumann et al. 2001). Self-reported appreciation per scenewas measured on a 10-point Likert scale and subjects indicated elements inthe ten urban spaces they liked or disliked (see Figure 1). A semi-structuredon-site survey was also carried out to investigate user experiences furtherand for triangulation. Thirty-one users, consisting of residents, passers-byand visitors to the NDSM Wharf, rated their appreciation of the site and itsperceived restorative and design qualities (following Ewing & Clemente, 2013)on a 10-point Likert scale.The meta-data analysis of RCS statistics, appreciation values, eye-trackingmetrics and heatmaps reveals distinct visual patterns among user groups. Thispoints to the influence of environmental tasks and roles (see Figure 2). Strollingand exploring resulted in a comprehensive visual exploration of scenes with ahigher mean total fixation count and shorter mean total fixation duration thangoal-oriented walking. It suggests that walking mode determines the level ofopenness to the environment and that architectural attributes can also steervisual exploration. Scenes with the highest appreciation scores correlatedwith the RCS outcomes. They displayed coherence and opportunities forsocial engagement, contrasting with scenes with inconsistent industrial andcontemporary features. These findings provide spatial designers with insightsinto the subliminal experiences of predominant user groups to promote wellbeing in urban transformation.
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In opdracht van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties heeft het lectoraat Changing Role of Europe van De Haagse Hogeschool de rol van de Dutch Urban Envoy geëvalueerd. De betekenis, de inzet, het vervolg en de toekomstige invulling van de rol van de Dutch Urban Envoy komen aan bod. Op basis van de inzichten van 37 interviews met 39 betrokken partijen (van het Ministerie van BZK, Nederlandse steden, Europese steden, koepelorganisaties, Europese instellingen en andere ministeries binnen de Rijksoverheid) en deskresearch zijn de volgende conclusies en aanbevelingen geformuleerd.
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Events:Project meetings & trainings with the COMMITTED partners•Kick-off meeting at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, 5 April 2022•Partner meeting & training at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Wurzburg, 12- 14 Dec. 2022•Partner meeting & training at Moravian College Olomouc, 31 May – 2 June 2023•Partner meeting at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Kouvola, 18 Sept. 2023•Final partner meeting at Budapest Business University, Budapest, 18 March 2024Trainings for university staff and SMEs:•Deemed export compliance pilot training for university staff,1 Feb. 2024, IBS Hanze. •Deemed export compliance pilot training for SMEs, 12 Feb. 2024, IBS Hanze.Conference presentations:Project pitch at Conference of the Centre of Expertise Entrepreneurship, Hanze, May 21, 2024Workshops:Deemed export workshop at the annual Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) consortium day on June 27, 2024The proposed project will help companies, policy makers and university researchers and students involved in international projects for which export compliance is applicable, recognize the risks related to the dissemination/use of data, R&D results and other products of international cooperation. Such items regulated by export control regimes require preparedness and understanding what is necessary to comply with the rules, in order to prevent infringement, which can have profound negative consequences for all parties involved. EU calls for tailored guidance to address those distinct challenges (2021/821 Regulation) and the proposed project is inline with this need.
Society continues to place an exaggerated emphasis on women's skins, judging the value of lives lived within, by the colour and condition of these surfaces. This artistic research will explore how the skin of a painting might unpack this site of judgement, highlight its objectification, and offer women alternative visualizations of their own sense of embodiment. This speculative renovation of traditional concepts of portrayal will explore how painting, as an aesthetic body whose material skin is both its surface and its inner content (its representations) can help us imagine our portrayal in a different way, focusing, not on what we look like to others, but on how we sense, touch, and experience. How might we visualise skin from its ghostly inner side? This feminist enquiry will unfold alongside archival research on The Ten Largest (1906-07), a painting series by Swedish Modernist Hilma af Klint. Initial findings suggest the artist was mapping traditional clothing designs into a spectral, painterly idea of a body in time. Fundamental methods research, and access to newly available Af Klint archives, will expand upon these roots in maps and women’s craft practices and explore them as political acts, linked to Swedish Life Reform, and knowingly sidestepping a non-inclusive art history. Blending archival study with a contemporary practice informed by eco-feminism is an approach to artistic research that re-vivifies an historical paradigm that seems remote today, but which may offer a new understanding of the past that allows us to also re-think our present. This mutuality, and Af Klint’s rhizomatic approach to image-making, will therefore also inform the pedagogical development of a Methods Research programme, as part of this post-doc. This will extend across MA and PhD study, and be further enriched by pedagogy research at Cal-Arts, Los Angeles, and Konstfack, Stockholm.
Het MADS-project brengt zeven universiteiten uit Europa en het Verenigd Koninkrijk samen met als doel een nieuw internationaal gezamenlijk masterprogramma Applied Deaf Studies (MADS) op te zetten. Het project wordt geleid door de Hogeschool Utrecht. Volkshogeschool Castberggård in Denemarken is betrokken als niet-academische partner. Het project wordt gefinancierd door de Erasmus Mundus Design Measure, die valt onder het Erasmus+ programma. Alle betrokken academici in het project zijn doof, waardoor het het grootste door doven geleide academische consortium ooit is.Doel MADS heeft tot doel drie belangrijke lacunes op het gebied van Deaf Studies aan te pakken: Gebrek aan beschikbare onderwijsmogelijkheden op Master niveau: ondanks significante vooruitgang op het gebied van Deaf Studies de afgelopen jaren, is er een gebrek aan overeenkomstige groei in onderwijsprogramma’s. Momenteel is er geen masterprogramma Deaf Studies in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Europa. Gebrek aan verbinding tussen onderzoek en praktijk: onderzoeksresultaten in Deaf Studies moeten worden toegepast op praktische gebieden zoals belangenbehartiging, onderwijs, onderzoek en dienstverlening. Daarom is het de bedoeling dat MADS een programma wordt in Applied Deaf Studies, om studenten uit te rusten met vaardigheden voor de professionele praktijk, zodat onderzoeksresultaten bijdragen aan oplossingen in de echte wereld. Gebrek aan toegang voor dove studenten tot programma's Deaf Studies: hoewel het programma open zal staan voor alle studenten, streeft MADS specifiek naar werving van dove studenten wereldwijd. Dove studenten hebben traditioneel meer barrières en minder kansen gehad om hoger onderwijs te volgen, met name in programma's Deaf Studies. In april 2023 organiseerde het MADS consortium een workshop samen met de Frontrunners studenten en leerkrachten aan Castberggård in Denemarken. Daar werd onder meer curriculumontwikkeling besproken, en de structuur en opzet van een mogelijke Master. In 2023 zullen er ook nog presentaties en workshops zijn op het Wereld Congres van de Werelddovenfederatie in Jeju, Zuid-Korea, en op de International Deaf Academics and Researchers conference in Wenen, Oostenrijk. Van 11-15 december organiseren we een Applied Deaf Studies Taster Week in Ål, Noorwegen. Meer informatie volgt. Resultaten Aan het einde van het project is het doel: Zijn de universiteiten geïdentificeerd die MADS gaan aanbieden. Is een nieuw, innovatief geïntegreerd transnationaal studieprogramma ontwikkeld. Zijn er een gezamenlijk accreditatiesysteem en gezamenlijke procedures voor studentenaanmelding en toelating opgezet. Looptijd 01 november 2022 - 31 januari 2024 Aanpak Het huidige MADS-project voert een behoefteanalyse uit onder potentiële studenten en organisaties in het werkveld, met als doel curriculumontwikkeling. Impact voor het onderwijs Dit project dicht de kloof tussen Deaf Studies onderzoek, dat exponentieel gegroeid is de laatste 10 jaar, en toepassingen van dit onderzoek in de beroepspraktijk, en het onderwijs. We willen bereiken dat nieuw onderzoek in Deaf Studies de vertaalslag maakt naar het onderwijs, en naar de beroepspraktijk. Cofinanciering Het onderzoek wordt medegefinancierd door Erasmus Mundus Design Measure (Erasmus +). Downloads en links
