Multigenerational Living for the Sandwich Generation

Caring for the elderly has always been a topic of great discussion. Demographic changes in an aging society have resulted in the growing phenomenon of the Sandwich Generation. The middle-aged generation cares for their aging parents and children and is usually one of the groups providing informal care. The burden of caregiving gradually harms...

ICSS: The International Community ‘Space’ Station: Publicness and formation of a resilient and sustainable community in a space habitat

The goal of this thesis is to propose a design for an orbital space station that incubates the future space civilization and is the base for space regulations and governance. A place that is democratizing access to space and resources, and allows for any interested individual to join and contribute to the world at large and their personal...

Better Resolved Dielectric Dispersions by the Apt Use of Kramers-Kronig Relations, Differential Operators, and All-In-1 Modeling

The dielectric spectra of colloidal systems and other dielectric media often contain a typical low frequency dispersion, which usually remains unnoticed, because of the presence of strong conduction losses. The KK relations offer a means for converting ' into " data. This allows us to calculate conduction free " spectra in which the l.f....

Towards socialVR: Evaluating a novel technology for watching videos together

Social VR enables people to interact over distance with others in real-time. It allows remote people, typically represented as avatars, to communicate and perform activities together in a shared virtual environment, extending the capabilities of traditional social platforms like Facebook and Netflix. This paper explores the benefits and...

Nederland kantelpunt: Darinka Czischke about the freedom to choose your way of living in collaborative housing

There have been a number of changes going on in recent years, the housing crisis is deepening, demographic changes are underway and the narrative among urban planners and public housing providers has changed. <br/>For a number of years there has been a housing crisis in the housing market in the Netherlands. The reasons for this are different....

Fun by the grey: A design where elderly live together and take ‘care’ of each other

The amount of elderly will increase in the future and elderly homes were abolished by the government due to cutbacks in 2012. There is no room for the target group that is too good for the nursing home and too bad for home care. In this Graduation Studio ‘Designing for Care I will anser the following question, ‘What kind of buildings and...

Response-ability: building together as performative political practice

Politics no longer works like the democratic ideal presumed it did. We need to find other ways of doing politics: not just representational and abstract, but situated and performative. Architecture can help us doing this. This project focuses on the situation of Reyeroord, IJsselmonde, Rotterdam. I propose a building process of three theatre...

Better Resolved Low Frequency Dispersions by the Apt Use of Kramers-Kronig Relations, Differential Operators, and All-In-1 Modeling

The dielectric spectra of colloidal systems often contain a typical low frequency dispersion, which usually remains unnoticed, because of the presence of strong conduction losses. The KK relations offer a means for converting ε′ into ε″ data. This allows us to calculate conduction free ε″ spectra in which the l.f. dispersion will show up...