Space-making, Playing it Forward: Using language in co-creative participatory urban processes to access and value the ‘unconventional‘ while also building citizen literacy

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...

Ritualia: a toolkit for multi-cultural food ritual observations, analysis and idea generation

The present research delves into the social aspects of food, commensality, and food rituals. It investigates the interplay between embodied gestures, artifacts, and language in shaping food cultures. To do this, the study delves into the acculturation of dietary habits within two multicultural communities in the Netherlands, mixed households of...

Exploring the Impact of Motivational Arousal and Generalised Anxiety Disorder on Language Use

Mental disorders are now becoming prevalent illnesses. More than 1 billion people globally were affected by mental and addictive disorders in 2016, which caused 7% of all global burden of disease (Rehm & Shield, 2019). Among those mental disorders, anxiety disorders and depression rank at the top. GAD is the most common...

Function Inlining as a Language Parametric Refactoring

Refactorings are program transformations that preserve the observable behavior of the program. The refactoring function inlining replaces a function call with the contents of the referenced function definition. To preserve the behavior, properties such as reference relations must be retained and language constructs like 'return' statements must...

Scale, Frame and Language: Highway community center in the periphery of Rome

The periphery of Rome in its chaotic sprawl created a condition of extremes. Trough time the distinction between private and public space, between low density and high density became blurred generating a condition where different scales of space and time cross each other. This thesis develops a process where this condition of constant limit is...