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Jankee, Genora (author)
Looking at history through the lens of architecture can tell a lot about the lifestyles, technologies, and ideologies of the past. Looking at the past can create a clear connection to the present. It is for this reason, the researcher, will write about the origins of the courthouse of Sint Maarten, the first government...
student report 2024
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Jonathan, Jonathan (author)
Infrastructure is a system in cities that is designed to aid the life of the people. In Jakarta, the trace can be found throughout history with a major one started in the colonial period with city wall and canals construction. Eventually, the post-colonial government took over and continued the infrastructure development in forms of street and...
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Baugh, Rebecca (author)
The project aims to develop a co-creative approach to participatory urban planning and design for improved socio-spatial justice through co-creation. The project is situated within a broader context of ‘Them vs Us’ conflicts including rigid social hierarchies of coloniality, caste, class, and expertise that limit the extent to which and what...
master thesis 2023
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Bliek, Bart (author)
This paper investigates issues of representation, interpretation, and difference in architecture in colonial and racialised environments, through a case study of the work of Dutch engineer, architect, and archaeologist Henri Maclaine Pont in the late colonial Dutch East Indies. Pont extensively surveyed regional Javanese building forms, and...
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Stam, Nynke (author)
We are living in an age of deconstructing history, realizing our past is not as black and white as we once thought it was. By slowly peeling off the different layers of the past, our historical awareness grows and we gain a broader perspective on what has actually happened. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have sharpened our lenses massively...
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Ouibrahim, Yasmine (author)
This thesis discusses the changing societal position of Algerian women over time, influenced by cultural, social, and political factors and how it is expressed in the city’s architecture. While women have played important roles in preserving Algerian culture, challenging gender norms, and participating in resistance movements, they have also...
master thesis 2023
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Amanda Hwa De Ai, Amanda (author)
This thesis examines the impact of colonialism on the urban development of Kuching, a city in Sarawak, Malaysia. Many port cities in the greater Southeast Asia region were born from their strategic location along the trade route between India and China, which attracted Western powers to establish control over these coastal entrepots and their...
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Sujisakulvong, Thanakorn (author)
Aircraft turnaround optimization has recently gained attention from researchers, with the goal of freeing up capacity in congested airports. Most modern research focuses on the passenger boarding process. However, cabin cleaning also resides in the process critical path and an improvement of the cleaning lead time will therefore impact the...
master thesis 2022
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Machielsen, Anne-Linn (author)
With the growing threats of climate change, plans such as the European Green Deal (EGD) aim to mitigate climate change effects. However, the mining needed for the materials for renewable energy technologies could exacerbate threats to biodiversity and other ecosystems. Herein, nickel is one of the key materials required for a range of energy...
master thesis 2022
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CEBECİ, Fatih (author)
When the British arrived in the colonial countries, they had the opportunity to adapt the architecture of the local culture to their needs, but centuries later, when the ethnic groups arrived in “postcolonial” London, they did not have the opportunity to have a manifest effect on the built environment and neither the development of the city...
master thesis 2022
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Numan, Tim (author)
This papers examines an ant colony optimization approach for solving a specific variant of the Flexible Job Shop Problem faced by the Dutch chemistry company DSM. Jobs consisting of operations on a specific enzyme need to be scheduled as efficiently as possible on groups of available machines. The most interesting requirement upon the general...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Knuyt, Jerry (author)
The loss of wildlife due to illegal poaching activity poses threats on both the survival of iconic animal species and the livelihood of local communities. This research proposes a distributed surveillance model in which a UAV swarm autonomously coordinates continuous surveillance in a dynamic environment. The adaptive behaviour of poachers has...
master thesis 2022
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van Heijst, Valery (author)
The landhuis is nowadays the most recognizable aspect of the Curaçaoan plantation landscape. The reality of the history of the plantation now hides behind these colourful villas. This thesis focuses on placing the architecture of the plantation in the spatial and historical framework from which they originated. <br/>The main question answered in...
student report 2022
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Lin, Ian Neng (author)
Beyond Colonialism: Macau’s Struggle for Postcolonial Architectural Identity will look back at the emergence of architectural images that shaped Macau's current Special Administrative Region (SAR), particularly during the transition from colonial to postcolonial times. The 442-year colonial state and the post-colonial period, which began in 1998...
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van der Waart, Darren (author)
In ‘Discovering the Colonial Institute: the Tropenmuseum’ historical research is conducted on the colonial traces that can be found in the Colonial Institute, which is now known as the Tropenmuseum. Nowadays much attention is paid in Dutch society to how the colonial past is dealt with. But at a point in history, as a Dutch citizen, it was...
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Pimpini, Giacomo (author)
In recent years, activists and researchers have been raising their voices to confront the amnesia of ninety years of colonial memory that affects Italian society. One of the main objects of study, and now an active subject promoting debate, is the Colonial Museum of Rome, a fascist institution for colonial propaganda, which eclipsed into...
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Cheaz, Markus (author)
Old Havana is undergoing a restoration project which focusses on preserving the historic character of the district. In order to fund this process, the parties managing the restoration process focus on transforming the district by commodifying tourist facilities and services. The restoration attempts of managing parties have earned the district...
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Tichelaar, Deniz (author)
This paper looks at the concept of extraction of raw materials, labour and communities, as it applies to the Balochistan province of Pakistan, with an emphasis on the port city of Gwadar. Extraction and its spatial consequences are explored with reference to the situation on the ground in Gwadar. Looking at Gwadar through the lense of statecraft...
master thesis 2022
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Tideman, Saskia (author)
Following an in-depth investigation into contemporary heritage practice, the project intervenes on the Parc Chanot which hosted Marseille’s two colonial exhibitions. The design seeks to resurface taboo histories to enable history to be learned from. Through this project, I have queried the role of architects as curators of history and sought to...
master thesis 2021
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Hagenbeek, Sjors (author)
The project rethinks the City Hotel and its accommodation of tourists within Amsterdam. Additionally, the building answers the question of urban densification and building within the historic centre of Amsterdam and revises the social precepts of privilege inherent to the elite architecture of the ‘Binnengasthuis’ area. <br/><br/>‘De Nieuwe...
master thesis 2021
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