Author Archives: Esther Holten Miedema
TU Delft Evacuation Performance: Standardising Assessment (TUDEP)
Background There currently exists no central detailed reference source for evacuation data; therefore, it is difficult for safety professionals and policymakers to learn from and disseminate best practices and ensure that drills are designed and executed consistently and effectively. Researchers … Continue reading
Defense Geertje Slingerland – Friday 18 February 2022
With lots of pleasure we would like to invite you to the defense of one of our Participatory Systems Lab Members Geertje Slingerland of her PhD thesis entitled “Together we make places: Designing connections in urban spaces” on Friday 18 … Continue reading
Assistant professor in Systems Modelling and Design (Tenure Track with a focus on education)
Job description (Tenure Track with focus on education: 60% teaching, 20% research, 20% organization and management) The Faculty of Technology Policy and Management invites candidates for a Tenure Track position as an assistant professor within the Systems Engineering Group. The … Continue reading
October 2021: “Vacancy: Assistant professor in Systems Modelling and Design (Tenure Track with a focus on education)”
Job description (Tenure Track with focus on education: 60% teaching, 20% research, 20% organization and management) The Faculty of Technology Policy and Management invites candidates for a Tenure Track position as an assistant professor within the Systems Engineering Group. The … Continue reading
Prof.dr.F.M. Brazier – Keynote at the IEEE Symposium starts September 13th
Prof.dr.F.M.Brazier will give a Keynote at the 7th IEEE International Symposium of System Engineering. Virtual, starts September 13th. “Embracing complexity” Complexity is a challenge with which all designers and engineers of complex socio-technical systems are confronted. This challenge is key … Continue reading
Research Article “COCREATE: a self-directed learning approach to agricultural extension programmes” by K.Kusnandar, Prof.O.van Kooten, Prof. dr.F.M.Brazier- 07-05-2021
ABSTRACT Participation has been proposed to improve agricultural extension programmes in developing countries. This paper reports on experience with COCREATE, an approach to agricultural extension programmes that supports agricultural chain actors in self-directed learning in action research with smallholder farmers … Continue reading
TPM on Stage – April 8th, 16h-17h
TPM on Stage: When disaster strikes Speakers • Aukje Hassoldt – Kick-off • Indushree Banerjee – Fair emergency communication system • Tina Comes – resilience and Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center • Wendela Nooteboom – Emergency Response at TPM • … Continue reading
Save the date: 13 April Workshop Living Moon – PhD Angelo Vermeulen
Save the date: 13 April 14u-17u Workshop Living Moon Right after NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance successfully arrived in a landscape that might have hosted Martian life, we would like to invite you to a first online workshop about the Living … Continue reading
Artikel Atria “Vrouwen in de Wetenschap”, Prof.F.M.Brazier, 15 maart 2021
In deze rubriek Vrouwen in de Wetenschap krijgen vrouwelijke wetenschappers het woord. Hoe verliep hun carrière? Hoe ervaren zij hun positie als vrouw in de wetenschap? Deze week: Frances Brazier, sectieleider Systeemkunde van de afdeling Multi-Actor Systems, met als leerstoel … Continue reading
IEEE International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities: AI for Smart Cities, Aydin, N.Y.,17-23 March
Invited talk: Aydin, N.Y., “An overview of critical infrastructure resilience: Methods, case studies and experiment-based analysis for transportation and water networks resilience” IEEE International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities: AI for Smart Cities, 17-23 March, Virtual Forum:https://ieeesg4sc.org/
Multilevel Governance for Urban Resilience
The project takes a case study approach to analyse multilevel governance arrangements in sociotechnical transformations of Dutch critical infrastructure (CI) systems. The study gives new insights on how multi-actor relations are shaped across various governance levels, and how they guide … Continue reading
PhD Candidate Geertje Slingerland invited for radio interview – 12 February 2021
On 12th February, our PhD Candidate Geertje Slingerland will be interviewed about her research during the radio show ‘Focus Wetenschap’ on NPO Radio 1. She will talk for one hour about her insights into engaging citizens in their neighbourhood and … Continue reading
The Future Ground: Urban Planning under climate uncertainty
“Plans are (maybe) useless, but planning is indispensable.” My research focus is to explore and develop a methodology for urban planning under climate uncertainties. I primarily work with two contrasting cities of the Global north and south: Amsterdam and Mumbai. … Continue reading
Design of energy communities with participatory co-creation research
Energy systems globally are going through a radical transition in order to halt the impacts of climate change. To help with the energy transition, deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar panels, wind turbines, energy storage technologies, etc., … Continue reading
Participatory Place-making in Cities
In the Participatory Place-making project, we study approaches that enable local city actors (professional and non-professional) to jointly design, discuss, develop, and implement (socio-technological) interventions for place-making in urban spaces. These approaches are inspired by participatory design and explicitly involve … Continue reading
PhD Defence Kusnandar Kusnandar “Empowering stakeholders to organise their agricultural production and supply chains for a sustainable and inclusive future in Indonesia.” – 5th of February at 12H30
This thesis reports on action research in Indonesia that explores the potential of COCREATE (an empowerment approach based on cocreation) to empower stakeholders within agricultural production and supply chains (APSCs) to pursue a sustainable and inclusive future in Indonesia. This approach … Continue reading
@NL_Wetenschap – 18/22 January 2021
@NL_Wetenschap is a Twitter account that rotates amongst Ducht scientists to tell about their research and what they do during the week. They talk about their field of research and how their research contributes to this. Some of the topics … Continue reading
PhD defence Xavier Fonseca “Location-based Games for Social Interaction in Public Space” – 28th January 2021, 12h30
Dear all, It is with great pleasure that I am announcing that my PhD thesis, entitled “Location-based Games for Social Interaction in Public Space”, will be publicly defended at TU Delft on the 28th January 2021, 12h30. In this date … Continue reading
Artikel Lentizmagazine – Angelo Vermeulen – 11-06-2018
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Angelo Vermeulen – persbericht ‘ Belgische kunst van ruimtestation ISS op weg naar huis ‘ – Het Nieuwblad BE – 7 januari 2020
https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20200107_04795491
Angelo Vermeulen in diverse media over leven in de ruimte – 8 augustus 2019
Angelo Vermeulen, bioloog en ruimtevaartonderzoeker aan de TU Delft, vertelt in diverse media wat er nodig is om een succesvol bestaan in de ruimte te verwezenlijken. •Beluister het interview: Ruimtebiologie op de maan tijdens Spraakmakers NPO Radio 1, 9 augustus … Continue reading
Angelo Vermeulen gives lecture at Universiteit van Nederland – 26-06-2019
On Friday 28 June, TPM researcher Angelo Vermeulen will give a lecture at the Universiteit van Nederland about surviving on the moon. He will explain how to create a viable ecosystem in space that can sustain itself. And you will … Continue reading
Awarded grant NWO – Marinus van Haaften – 17-06-2019
Marinus van Haaften has received a Doctoral Grant for Teachers. He is one of twenty-six laureates. The grants provide teachers with an opportunity to further develop their capabilities and strengthen ties between universities and schools. Van Haaften is researcher at … Continue reading
Angelo Vermeulen in diverse media over buitenaardse bevalling – 24-01-2019
Met een katoenplantje slaagde China er vorige week in een aardse levensvorm op een ander hemellichaam te laten leven. Een Brabants bedrijf gaat verder: het wil in 2024 een kind ter wereld brengen in de ruimte. Ook de Belgische bioloog … Continue reading
Angelo Vermeulen in diverse media over bio-inspired space architecture – 07-01-2019
Going interstellar is hard. The closest stars to the sun are generally several light-years away, so a trip would take decades at best. Not to mention that the road there is perilous: Particle impacts and radiation can easily destroy a … Continue reading
Article ESA ‘ TU Delft E/A/S/ project – 25-04-2018
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/TU_Delft_E_A_S_Evolving_Asteroid_Starships_project
Symposium Resilience en risicobeheer, De Bouwcampus, TU Delft, do 29 maart, 16.00-20.00 uur.
Symposium Resilience en risicobeheer, De Bouwcampus, TU Delft, do 29 maart, 16.00-20.00 uur. Inschrijven via www.kivi.nl/resilience. WEERBAAR TEGEN HET WATER | 29 maart Afgelopen zomer was het goed raak. Orkaan Harvey bracht Houston in vijf dagen tijd 1 tot 1,4 … Continue reading