Big, small or no data at all: resisting a 'smartness' that is 'all over the place' through art KU Leuven
Big,small or no data at all: resisting a smartness that is all over the place.
Big,small or no data at all: resisting a smartness that is all over the place.
Retrofitting cities, making places - Policies for building energy efficiency (working title) is a doctoral research project whose aim is to develop a design-oriented investigation into the critical factors that can support, or hinder, the retrofit of urban places.
Within the framework of the Incubators of Public Spaces, a funded JPI Urban Europe project aiming at the development of a co-creative platform for the ...
Democratic innovations have been largely proposed as procedures with which address the democratic legitimacy deficit in advanced democracies. However, little is known empirically about the societal demand for these procedures. One of the objectives of this thesis is to open the black box of citizens’ process preferences in order to acquire knowledge on who and why some citizens demand participatory and deliberative reforms in order to improve ...
An interprosthetic (IP) gap is created when an arthroplasty is performed on both joints of the same bone to replace deteriorated joints. Specifically in this
thesis, placement of a hip and knee prosthesis in the femur was examined. Such an ipsilateral placement of stemmed prostheses into the same bone creates a gap of varying size and location depending on the prosthesis stem lengths. The IP gap is measured in between the tips of the ...
Amylose (AM) is an almost linear glucose polymer. Together with amylopectin (AP), it makes up the bulk of granular starch. The AM content in regular starches ranges from 20 to 35%. It greatly influences the functionality of starch in aqueous systems. In fully gelatinized starch dispersions, AM crystallization plays a major role in gelation. In many food preparation protocols, AM network formation starts immediately after starch ...
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Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...
This thesis was initiated with the question what architects and urban designers can learn by observing people eating in urban settings? Exploring this question, I, being an architect and urban designer, looked for finding tacit knowledge using explorations and site-visits. For this thesis, I performed eating as the mean of observation, exploration, research and design. I ate in places where the flow of people in that neighbourhood is ...
In Bogotá, as in other Latin-American cities, housing demand is increasing daily, while the overall housing shortage remains an unresolved problem. Hence, flood prone areas along the Bogotá river are more and more under urbanization pressure, amongst others by low-cost housing projects, while these areas simultaneously are required in view of flooding, which promise to increase with the predictions of climate change. The dissertation ...