What about people, hardware (biology) and software (culture)? Our construction starts with an egg cell and a sperm cell that is 83,000 times smaller (in this phase the female is certainly cooperative). The 2 cells double, and double, 47 times (247) resulting in the 140.737 billion (1.4 * 1014) complex collaborating cells! Every day millions of cells die and the same number is re-formed. Usually we notice nothing of this "maintenance" (sometimes a cold, sometimes worse). In time, for example, we get hungry and then we become saturated, or there is a sense of movement. All essential nutrients and processes are thus guaranteed. Our body never gets older than 10 years! In the colomn it is argued that we exist in interaction rather than in content.
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This paper reviews the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the global travel industry, drawing on a survey of businesses in the youth travel sector. It reviews the current and likely future impact of the crisis on different sectors of youth travel, and assesses the prospects for recovery
This article examines how the human perception of knowledge is structured in the empirical world. It is often argued by scientists that facts in this empirical world can be perceived, which makes us believe that this world is an objective world. However, the human way of making sense of the world is individual and embodied, which causes the creation of an individual world for every human: a body-world. The empirical world is in this case a shared space for multiple bodies that agree on the causality of certain events and objects in that space. Every body-world therefore has its own partial perspective on the knowledge in this shared space, which is formed by the physiology of the body, the cultural background, and the identity of the person. The theater has the power, through the techniques of re-enactment and disruption, to give its audience insight in other situated knowledges from different partial perspectives. It can therefore connect different situated knowledges and create ecological knowledge: the awareness of the connected network of knowledges that is produced in various body-worlds on what is happening in the shared space. Only then can we emancipate knowledge and embrace the various partial perspectives that this shared space of body-worlds has to offer.
Due to their diverse funding sources, theatres are under increasing pressure to demonstrate impact on society. The Raad voor Cultuur (2023) for example advised the secretary of state to include societal impact as an additional evaluation measure next to artistic value. Many theaters, such as the Chassé Theater and Parkstad Limburg Theaters, have reformulated their missions to focus on impact of performances on visitors. This is a profound transformation from merely selling tickets and filling seats, and requires new measurement instruments to monitor, manage, and improve impact. Currently available instruments are insufficient, and effective monitoring is crucial to larger future projects that theaters are currently planning to systematically broaden impacts of performances on their communities. The specific goal of this project is to empower theaters to monitor and improve impact by developing a brief experience impact questionnaire, taking existing data from student projects conducted at the Chassé Theater about performing arts experiences on one hand, and experience impact theory innovations on the other, as starting points. We will develop potential items to measure and benchmark against established measures of valued societal outcomes, such as subjective well-being and quality of life. These will be measured in questionnaires developed with project partners Chassé Theater and Parkstad Limburg Theaters and administered before and after performances across a wide range of genres. The resulting data will enable comparison of new questionnaire items with benchmarked measures of valued societal outcomes. The final product of the project will be a brief impact questionnaire, which within several brief self-report instruments and just a few minutes can effectively be used to quantify the impact of a performing arts experience. A workshop and practice-oriented article will make this questionnaire implementable, thereby mobilizing the key enabling methodology of monitoring and impact measurement in the performing arts sector.
Due to their diverse funding sources, theatres are under increasing pressure to demonstrate impact on society. The Raad voor Cultuur (2023) for example advised the secretary of state to include societal impact as an additional evaluation measure next to artistic value. Many theaters, such as the Chassé Theater and Parkstad Limburg Theaters, have reformulated their missions to focus on impact of performances on visitors. This is a profound transformation from merely selling tickets and filling seats, and requires new measurement instruments to monitor, manage, and improve impact. Currently available instruments are insufficient, and effective monitoring is crucial to larger future projects that theaters are currently planning to systematically broaden impacts of performances on their communities.The specific goal of this project is to empower theaters to monitor and improve impact by developing a brief experience impact questionnaire, taking existing data from student projects conducted at the Chassé Theater about performing arts experiences on one hand, and experience impact theory innovations on the other, as starting points. We will develop potential items to measure and benchmark against established measures of valued societal outcomes, such as subjective well-being and quality of life. These will be measured in questionnaires developed with project partners Chassé Theater and Parkstad Limburg Theaters and administered before and after performances across a wide range of genres. The resulting data will enable comparison of new questionnaire items with benchmarked measures of valued societal outcomes. The final product of the project will be a brief impact questionnaire, which within several brief self-report instruments and just a few minutes can effectively be used to quantify the impact of a performing arts experience. A workshop and practice-oriented article will make this questionnaire implementable, thereby mobilizing the key enabling methodology of monitoring and impact measurement in the performing arts sector.Societal issueThe specific goal of this project is to empower theaters to monitor and improve impact by developing a brief experience impact questionnaire, taking existing data about performing arts experiences on one hand, and experience impact theory innovations on the other, as starting points. Benefit to societyWe will develop potential items to measure and benchmark against established measures of valued societal outcomes, such as subjective well-being and quality of life. Collaborative partnersChassé Theater N.V., Parkstad Limburg Theaters N.V.
Kunstenaars en andere ‘creatieven’ vinden steeds moeilijker betaalbare werkruimte. Atelierstichtingen en broedplaatsorganisaties zitten klem tussen oplopende kosten, teruglopende subsidies en de structureel zwak-ke inkomenspositie van de hurende kunstenaars. Een manifest van Platform BK, dat beeldend kunstenaars vertegenwoordigt, en de KunstenBond agendeert dit vraagstuk. Een bijkomend probleem vormt de hoogspan-ning op de vastgoedmarkt, waardoor panden zeer gewild zijn bij projectontwikkelaars en gemeenten geneigd zijn om voor de panden die zij aan deze organisaties verhuren andere draagkrachtigere huurders te zoeken. Medewerkers en management van broedplaatsorganisaties staan voor de uitdaging om hun businesscase maatschappelijk en financieel te verduurzamen. Dit vraagt om nieuwe waardeproposities en herpositionering ten opzichte van de gemeente en andere publieke en private stakeholders. Ook het profiel van de broed-plaatsprofessional verandert. Ontwikkelaars van broedplaatsen zijn veelal geleidelijk in hun organiseren-de/coördinerende rol gegroeid. Het speelveld van stedelijke (gebieds)ontwikkeling waarop zij opereren is echter dynamisch. De broedplaatsprofessional krijgt steeds nadrukkelijker de positie van stedelijke kwartiermaker: een nieuwe, hybride rol op het snijvlak van vastgoed, cultuur, welzijn en ruimtelijk(-economisch)e ontwikkeling. Dit project beoogt broedplaatsorganisaties te voeden met (bedrijfs-)strategieën om hun businessmodel toe-komstbestendig te maken en deze te vertalen naar benodigde competenties voor de betrokken professionals. Alleen zo kunnen zij blijven bijdragen aan de politiek gewenste levendige en veelkleurige stad, waar mensen graag wonen en bedrijven zich graag vestigen. Veel onderzoek onderbouwt dat steden die investeren in cultuur economisch beter presteren. Daarbij gaat het niet alleen om toptheaters en –musea maar juist ook om innova-tie en creativiteit ‘van onderop’. Fontys Hogescholen gaat deze problematiek onderzoeken met inzet van een breed consortium creatieve ver-zamelgebouwen, netwerk- en kennispartners. Gezamenlijk vertegenwoordigen deze organisaties ruim 300 ate-liergebouwen/broedplaatsen, 4.700 werkruimten en honderdveertig professionals. De broedplaatsenproble-matiek speelt bovendien in vrijwel alle G40-steden, hetgeen de resultaten van dit project potentieel relevant maakt voor honderden professionals bij gemeenten, woningcorporaties en andere vastgoedeigenaren.
