Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Grow your own food
A big part of the food that we eat every day has travelled hundreds or thousands of kilometers
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The importance of preliminary community based research
“…sensitivity to local context and the local embeddedness of the project were key aspects…
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Don't WASTE it
Listening to the lecture by Roel van Raak about waste management this week, I started to think…
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Report 1: Challenges related to happiness, health and well-being in Texel
This report is focused on giving a wide perspective of the challenges related to happiness, health…
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Architecture & The Texel Beach
The municipality of Texel has big ambitions for the island. To become energy neutral by 2020 and to…
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A revolutionary new way of food production and consumption is necessary according to Urgenda
Due to the CO2 Emissions of the argiculture and food production of today, a new revolutionary way…
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YUTPA analysis Facebook
In this example a YUTPA analysis is carried out to understand how Facebook’s presence design…
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Comparison and critical evaluation
Presence design requires the involvement of different scientific and design disciplines. This in…
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Participatory Distributed Systems design: Local coordination for global management
Fundamental to participatory distributed systems design is the notion of local coordination. Every…
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Political economy: Poly-centricity
For over 40 years Elinor Ostrom studied how rural communities in different places in the world…
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Science and Technology Studies: Actor Network Theory
Science and Technology Studies (STS) studies how science and technological innovation affect…
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Design thinking: Collaborative authoring of outcomes
In complex design trajectories, in which business and political dynamics are at stake, the need to…
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Business studies: Presencing and the U-Turn
Senge introduced the concept of ‘presencing’ as a means to guide organizations to go through…
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Artistic research
Presence research uses many methodologies from the medical and natural sciences as well as…
