Continue the Debate! – By Jurrian Arnold, Jorick Beijer & Floris van der Zee
• Urban designers and planners don’t produce designs anymore, they guide processes: more attention for communication in education. • Education should focus on the smaller scale: in a spatial, financial and process-oriented way. • The disappearance of an evident client in practice has consequences for education as well. • Uncertainty must become a key aspect … Read more
B Nieuws is looking for a columnist!
Don’t you hate those people that keep complaining about the education, politics and life in general, but don’t do anything about it? What is freedom of expression worth if there is no place to express it? B Nieuws looking for someone to write a two-monthly column for B Nieuws. We are looking for is someone … Read more
B Nieuws is looking for a new editor!
Het facultaire magazine B Nieuws is per januari 2012 op zoek naar een nieuwe redacteur. Heb jij een vlotte pen en meer dan normale interesse in alles wat er op de faculteit Bouwkunde gebeurt? Word dan nu het nieuwe redactielid van B Nieuws! Als redactielid van B Nieuws werk je als student-assistent en krijg je een aanstelling van … Read more
Bouwkunde-Delft is een conservatieve kerk – by Jaap Dawson
Bouwkunde-Delft is een conservatieve kerk. Van een conservatieve kerk mag je verwachten dat haar bisschoppen de officiële theologie bewaken. Daarom mogen ze en moeten ze studenten beoordelen aan wie ze zelf geen les hebben gegeven. Het enige dat ontbreekt in onze conservatieve kerk is het duidelijk uitspreken van wat precies de theologie van de kerk … Read more
Riedijk, Smaakdebat en Psychologie – by Paul de Vries
Waarom wordt er in deze faculteit geen psychologie, sociologie en filosofie onderwezen? Prof. Michiel Riedijk antwoordde op deze vraag aan het eind van de docentenbijeenkomst op 2 september 2011 met: “Ik wil hier geen smaakdebat!” Michiel Riedijk was gevraagd om de Bachelor te renoveren en revitaliseren. Zonder eerst goed onderzoek te doen startte Riedijk toch … Read more
Why internationalize? – By Roberto Rocco
FORUM 3 October 2011 We often hear that the university is ‘internationalizing’. It seems to be a natural development in a globalized country like the Netherlands. However, what does internationalization mean and why should the university internationalize? First of all, I must acknowledge that I am biased. I am a product of internationalization myself. And … Read more
BK in the picture! – By Floris van der Zee
FORUM 5 September 2011 This summer we all took notice of the riots in the streets of London and other major British cities. Some were totally astonished when confronted with the violence on the opposite side of the North Sea. Others probably see in these events what they expected to happen one day or another. … Read more
Architectural Determinism – By Marjolein Overtoom
FORUM 6 June 2011 We, as (aspiring) architects and planners have a vision: We want to make the world a better place to live in. In order to do that, we design. We can imagine the users in the building, and how they will use it. Architectural determinism is the idea that the environment shapes … Read more
Designing is communicating – By Roberto Rocco
FORUM 26 April 2011 The idea that scientific research gets in the way of creativity and inspiration seems to be widespread among design students who deal with the city. The word ‘science’ is indeed rather scary. It evokes images of white sterile laboratories where defenceless rats are dissected. Or nerdy physicists trying to solve useless … Read more
The True Believer – By Herman van Bergeijk
FORUM 23 March 2010 This world is made for believers. Belief in a better future is one of the main motors of our existence. Who would not like to believe? ‘Yes we can’ was already a popular motto before an American president started his career with a sentence that soon proved to be a cover … Read more
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