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Games for Cities – The Inclusive City Game Talk Show

This post will deal with The Inclusive City Game Talk Show held on the 23rd of November 2016 at Wijk & Co. in Utrecht Overvecht. Like the preceding event in Amsterdam, the talk show was moderated by Utrecht University’s Michiel de Lange and it brought together local and national experts (such as municipal workers or representatives of local initiatives) and game designers. Unlike the previous event, the focus was on localizing the more general background of creating city games for newcomers in the environment of Overvecht. The talk show took place during the game jam of Games for Cities as well, thus the evening functioned as a dialogue with local experts, an initial presentation of game ideas and a chance to comment on their design. Sketching the general background were Michelle Provoost and Nina Hälker. Finally, Ekim Tan was present to discuss the game jam game design process. Due to the more specific localization of a neighborhood (instead of the whole of Amsterdam) the focus of this talk show was on how games can be used to approach an influx of newcomers in a specific neighborhood.

Primate talk

Primates spend very much time and energy on perpetuating and maintaining mutual ties. In humans, grooming has given way to chatting and gossip. While smalltalk is sometimes di?cult to understand for neurodiverse (autistic) persons, the need for bonding and interconnection is universal. As a civilized “monkey”, bonding through social media satis?es a deep-rooted basic need. However, technologies increase the scale to such a huge extent, that unintentionally diversity get stuck. Cultural diversity and other important contents are out of sight due to our anthropoid-like need for chat behaviour to strengthen mutual ties that focus on super hits and generalities. This makes the discrepancy between form and content on the internet comparable with the discrepancy between neurotypic smalltalk and neurodiverse focus on content!

Early Morning Talk 'Duurzaam watergebruik'

Schoon en voldoende zoetwater is van levensbelang voor mens en natuur. Maar in het waterrijke Nederland wordt schoon zoetwater steeds minder een vanzelfsprekendheid. Het oppervlakte- en grondwater komen steeds meer onder druk te staan door toename in gebruik, vervuiling, verzilting en klimaatverandering. Vanuit landelijk en Europees beleid zal steeds meer ingezet worden op de verbetering van de waterkwaliteit, waterbesparing en waterhergebruik. Hoe kan je als bedrijf of organisatie hier mee omgaan? Welke praktische voorbeelden zijn er? Over deze onderwerpen wordt gesproken in Early Morning talk. Eén van de gasten is Jantsje van Loon-Steensma, lector 'Nature Based River Management' aan hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein.

Let’s talk sustainability…again??

Communiceren over duurzaamheid

Hoe kun je de dialoog aangaan over duurzame energie? Hoe ga je om met weerstanden van omwonenden? En hoe sluit je daarbij aan bij de beleving van mensen? Om antwoord te kunnen geven op deze complexe vragen, hebben Hogeschool Utrecht en Hanzehogeschool Groningen de afgelopen twee jaar onderzoek gedaan naar de manier waarop burgers lokale energietoepassingen bespreken. In deze publicatie: onderzoek Let's talk energy door de ogen van vijf onderzoekers en partners.

Board talk: How members of executive hospital boards influence the positioning of nursing in crisis through talk

Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning of nurses. Talk is a relational leadership practice. Using a qualitative‐ interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein members of executive hospital boards (7), nurses (14), physicians (7), and managers (6), from 15 Dutch hospitals, discussed the organizational positioning of nursing during COVID crisis. We found that members of executive hospital boards consider the positioning of nursing in crisis a task of nurses themselves and not as a collective, interdependent, and/or specific board responsibility. Furthermore, members of executive hospital boards talk about the nursing profession as (1) more practical than strategic, (2) ambiguous in positioning, and (3) distinctive from the medical profession. Such talk seemingly contrasts with the notion of interdependence that highlights how actors depend on each other in interaction. Interdependence is central to collaboration in hospital crises. In this paper, therefore, we depart from the members of executive hospital boards as leader and “positioner,” and focus on talk— as a discursive leadership practice—to illuminate leadership and governance in hospitals in crisis, as social, interdependent processes.