Investigating governance mechanisms in the inter-organizational collaboration between public clients and contractors during the front-end phase to facilitate the transition towards a circular economy in the built environment

The circular economy in the construction sector aims to lessen the environmental impact of construction projects by incorporating the end-of-life phase into the design and the conscious use of reusable resources. To achieve a circular economy in the built environment, it has been evidenced in the literature and practice that governance...

Ecologies of Migration: Metabolic landscapes and relational architectures

The phenomenon of migration is a fundamental concept to evolutionary biology, population studies, and life sciences. It is almost uncontestable common knowledge that migration is an indispensable factor to propel difference and change, thus ensuring genetic variation, and ultimately evolution for all life forms. For most species migration is the...

There and back again: A tale of normopathy: Or: How to reinvent the wheel

As a species of habit, we are constantly preoccupied with building our habitat. In the course of our history, the more we evolved, the more we started to be dependent on the creation of different networks within which different agents engendered different components of our habitat. These agents do not act impulsively as we would observe in...