In her inaugural lecture of 9 June 2023 Prof. Dr. Franziska Weber delved into the conundrum of sharing others’ data: By sharing our personal data we also share – directly and indirectly – information about others. In some situations we are aware of this, in others less so. Weber outlines the social problems this entails with a special focus on negative data externalities. She then illustrates data valuation challenges and presents experimental insights which counter the claim that the s...

Our society has never been so internationally connected. Companies operate worldwide, retail shelves are filled with products from far and wide, people travel like never before and maintain contacts from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Distant countries have never been so close. Anyone who is practising law today cannot escape this and will increasingly be confronted with cross-border legal issues. Therefore, today’s jurists are expected to have knowledge of their own legal system as well as the l...

Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.

An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider our planet as ‘Our Common Home,’ for present and future generations.

This book argues that ...

The Motivation Game is de Engelstalige versie van het Inspiratiespel.

The purpose of The Motivation Game is to get people talking about what inspires and motivates them from within. The game consists of 140 cards, divided into four groups:

* Activities (55 cards). These cards help you find an answer to questions such as: What do I enjoy doing? What gives me energy? Examples include: ‘teaching’, ‘being creative’ and ‘operating machines’.

* Inspirations (17 cards). These cards help you...

Life urges us to find answers on many different levels, regarding the world, regarding ourselves and mainly regarding the reason of our existence. Our answers are often biased, dictated by custom and tradition, also when they are considered as ‘religion’ and ‘science’. Author Yoginâm went with this book on a phenomenological quest of what it means that we are what we are, seeing the world the way we see it. He found in Siweb an approach that is so simple, so logical, and so easy to u...

The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In observing and analysing social and cultural differences through chairs from eight cultures in the most populated countries, Sicilian designer Matteo Guarnaccia went on a field research to portray each country, in collaboration with selected local d...

Why is it that organisations are not yet sufficiently diverse and inclusive? Who is affected by this and whose responsibility is it? For years, organisations have been talking about diversity and inclusion, without actually taking any action. Because differences are not always valued, inequality arises. Inequality has a major impact on our daily lives, how we interact with each other, how we look at the world and the decisions we make.

The time has come to make organisations more diverse, inc...

The Failed Painter is a personal book about material anxiety in Graphic design's creative work. It speaks of fascination for singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility, and imperfectability in times of virtual surface and hunger for authenticity. Writing out of the persona ‘The Failed Painter’, this book is a collection of essays on design and art spanning culture, race, nation, and sheer vandalism from the author of The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Art...