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Gao, Ziou (author)The city of Nijmegen transformed drastically during the last century during its reconstruction period after the war. The city we know now is characterised by the commodification of city centre. With the proliferation of shopping in the city, the community and neighbourhood became overlooked. However, the people's mentality is still very much...master thesis 2021
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Mézière, Lucas (author)Three decades after the reunification of Germany, the History of a nation standing on the cutting line of a binary world continues to unfold and reveal its complexities. Today, many traits underlying two opposing ideologies persist in reminding the time when East and West Germany followed different paths. The condition of women is one of those....student report 2021
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Turgut, Dilara (author)Since the beginning of humanity, art and architecture have had an inseparable relationship. They have always been interrelated subjects connected through many domains. This dissertation, however, aims to explore more profound than the surface that creates this interconnectivity. It focuses on turning this surface into a frame through which art...student report 2021
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Omastka, Agnieszka (author)The dissertation The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks investigates and discusses the couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artistic work, who created large-scale projects that use their existing surroundings — architectural or natural. The thesis begins by examining the historical context, which briefly explains the project’s essential...student report 2021
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Kopiarová, Dominika (author)Radical experimentation, formal plurality, and oscillation between architecture and visual arts permeated the 50s and 60s generation of architects and artists on both sides of the politically divided Europe. Central and Eastern European examples from this period are often undervalued, if addressed at all, both by Western European standards and...student report 2021
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Xie, Dan (author)As one of the most prestigious architects of the Art Nouveau period, Victor Horta explored a set of innovative methods to combine iron materials and architectural forms. This article will focus on this particular material language, first analyze the background of iron materials and architectural development at that time; secondly, analyze the...student report 2021
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Tarczyński, Rafal (author)The symbolic and meaningful richness of the architecture of commemoration reminds us of important events in the history of mankind, mixing past realities with present-day meta worlds largely created by architecture and place, as well as exhibitions, objects, or even our own experiences. Semiotic opulence, and therefore also the narrative...student report 2021
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Immink, Leon (author)Within this thesis an attempt is made to improve the seakeeping of a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) by means of an active anti-roll tank (ART). It is researched if the addition of a wave prediction system can improve the ART’s performance. As the seakeeping of the SOV is most important for the installed motion compensated gangway, the...master thesis 2021
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Ho, Wai Sum Michelle (author)Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the opportunities for political conversation are diminishing, censorship has been gradually imposed on different means of mass media. In the face of the gradual loss of freedoms, the people of Hong Kong have demonstrated an atmosphere of solidarity through social movements and physical...master thesis 2021
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van Straalen, Lars (author)In 1920 the architect J. J. Kanters designed the warehouse ‘the Katoenveem’. The building is situated in the Merwe-Vierhavens of the port delta of Rotterdam. It was constructed as a part of the infrastructure that relied on the import and export of Cotton. The position of the Katoenveem in this transit system divines the character of the...master thesis 2021
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Veerman, Julka (author)Exhibitions and collections of art museums mostly consists of visual art. When we talk about “contemporary art” museums, people immediately think about paintings, photographs and sculptures: visual arts. Monet’s, Van Gogh’s and Picasso’s paintings, photographs of William Klein, sculptures by Richard Serra or Woody Allen’s movie. All these...master thesis 2021
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Król, Maciej (author)In London street art is still formally perceived as an act of anti-social behaviour while it gains more and more acceptance and admiration by people. The fact that it remains illegal means a great wasted potential of inhabitants’ creativity and will to participate in creating public spaces. While street art may mark places that are neglected or...master thesis 2021
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Harteveld, Maurice (author)This article aims to extent the notion of port-cities and counter the mainstream narrative that port and city, in cases like Rotterdam, have become disunited by reviewing its public spaces in their unique port-city characteristics. These characteristics can be found by systematic approaching and describing public spaces as biographies of place,...journal article 2021
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Marin, L. (author), van Grunsven, J.B. (author), Stone, T.W. (author)The paper explores the potential for improvisational techniques used in ethics tutorials with the aim of fostering moral sensitivity. Recently there has been an increased interest in researching how performance-based techniques can foster certain ethical competencies. In ethics education for engineering, role-playing games have been an example...conference paper 2021
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Tissen, L.N.M. (author)This article uses the COVID –19 crisis to re –evaluate the importance of reproductions – 3D prints – for art’s authenticity, and their significance in keeping art museums meaningful in a rapidly changing world. The fixation on ‘auratic experiences’, inherent to artworks’ materiality is integral to contemporary art theory and museum practice,...journal article 2021
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Queiroz, Alice (author), Crevels, Eric (author)This essay proposes an analysis using the “symbolic economy of predation” to provide new perspectives on the question of pixo. For this, pixo will be considered as any act on walls, building facades, asphalt or monuments rejecting the hierarchical separations between writing, scribbling, painting or graffiti imposed by the art system and other...conference paper 2021
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van Grunsven, J.B. (author)In this commentary, I raise one question and one critical comment about Rietveld’s normative claim that ‘artistic practices afford embedding technologies better in society’ (2019, p. 5). In what exact sense is this the case? It seems that Rietveld offers two interconnected but conceptually distinct answers to this question. The first focuses on...journal article 2021
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Poulis, J.A. (author), Mosleh, Yasmine (author), Cansell, Elsa (author), Cimino, Dafne (author), Ploeger, Rebecca (author), René de la Rie, E. (author), McGlinchey, Christopher W. (author), Seymour, Kate (author)The mechanical behavior of adhesives is strongly influenced by a large number of variables, relating to a complex interaction of mechanical-physical-chemical factors, such as its loading direction (shear, peel), the temperature and the environmental relative humidity (RH). These variables can have a large influence on the durability of...journal article 2021
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van der Stok-Nienhuis, Janneke (author), Kuiper, Elisabeth (author), Beentjes, Tonny (author), Joosten, Ineke (author), van Eijck, L. (author), Zhou, Z. (author), van Bommel, Maarten (author)A rare find of a high-status 17th century oval box, retrieved from a shipwreck, provided a unique opportunity to research the construction and finishing layers of an object that is untouched for 350 years. This case study was used to demonstrate the extent of data that can be gained from analytical techniques prior to conservation. The...journal article 2021