You Make Meaning: The Essentials to Film Viewership
By Rebeka Milius If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound if no one is there to hear it? If a film is projected but there is no audience to watch…
Why are you dancing in a warehouse? – Industrialist Architecture & Adaptive Reuse in Music Venues
By Gabriella Meshako Most weekends, I find myself in some sort of former factory, garage, or warehouse that has been renovated (and of course gentrified) into a music venue/club. The exposed iron beams, stripped down…
Building Understanding – The role of Legos in supporting problem-based-learning
By Hannah Brunnschweiler On the 11th of April, my classmates and I walked into the room without knowing what the upcoming tutorial would be like. A mysterious bag, which we had just seen our tutor (impressively)…
Building cycle heaven in Freiburg
By Pieter Vergouw An indefinable time ago, I came to the conclusion that routine had taken over my life, and therefore I treated myself to a trip. Call it a moment for reflection. I was thinking…
The Catalyst Behind Novelty
By Jai Ramlakhan Illustration by Mahela Cabrini In high school some consider mathematics a mundane subject, wondering how these different counting methods will help later in life. Math has many practical applications, having a fundamental…
Why is Everyone Bored in this Age of Novelty?
By Isabel Batiste Frillman Illustration by Leo Johnson Technology is progressing at a rapid pace. It feels like forever ago when Facebook was first created, marking a new age of interactive social media, and since then…
Quantified Self: Movement as a Means to Self-Archiving
By Alexandra Lomakina Illustration by Zac Colah In the olden days, archiving practices primarily focused on preserving socially and historically significant materials, with archivists serving as custodians for the public. However, the time has passed, and…
The Digital Age of Music and all that Jazz
By Bartosz Skitał Illustration by Merel Hamminga In the modern day, the art of music is as broad as ever. There are no constraints as to what artists can create, arguably with the only limits…
New Far Right
By Lina Leskovec Photo by Simon Ducos The fact that history repeats itself is one of those empty sayings known to everyone. I say empty because it is both taken as an axiom and, at…
Building a New Europe: what happened to the social market economy?
by Pieter Vergouw Illustration by Célia Mortureux The death of Jacques Delors, the first and arguably the most effective president of the European Commission, at the end of last year marks the end of an era…