An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks whether cities should be organized bottom-up or top-down. This conceptualization of cities as complex systems calls for new collaborative city-making methods: a combination of collaborative planning (which already embraces various agencies and...

This book focuses on building and managing a strong network and reciprocal relationships for the entire organization by implementing a professional relationship management approach at strategic, tactical and operational level.

Toen de schilder Jacopo Tintoretto

(1518-1594) rond 1560-1570 zijn

Heilige Catharina schilderde, een

0monumentaal altaarstuk voor de

Venetiaanse kerk San Geminiano,

had zijn roem een hoogtepunt bereikt.

“Capriccioso, presto, e risoluto”, dat

is hoe de Italiaanse kunsthistoricus

Giorgio Vasari hem destijds omschreef.

Wispelturig, snel en vastberaden.

Vasari kon Tintoretto’s stijl moeilijk

plaatsen maar vond hem toch een van

fascinerendste schilders aller tijden.

Het emotioneel beladen we...

Apparatus and apparatisation, the focus of the Cyber-Physical Architecture (CpA) issue #2 of SPOOL, refer to an assemblage of various components, tools, and instruments that in combination produce an exponential surplus beyond the linear sum of parts.

The CpA #2 samples various interests afforded by the apparatus and apparatisation in and of architecture and how they open up new potentials and opportunities. The first article, Building as Apparatus? (by Leach) addresses the theme of “buildi...

Stop working hard to resolve problems. Particularly those problems that keep returning, but in a different form. Look for the reason why the problem in question is a good solution. Discover what’s blocked. Moving Questions help you to do this.

By asking Moving Questions, you introduce movement to situations that are stuck. Both professionally and personally. For you and other people. By asking questions such as: Who does this problem belong to? Is it yours or does it belong somewhere else?...

Wave against the current by asking the right questions.

Barbara Hoogenboom, Jan Jacob Stam en Bibi Schreuder have combined their knowledge and translated

it into questions that you can ask per theme. 224 questions spread over 45 themes. Every question has the potential to help you a step further.

Geodesign is a GIS-based planning and design method, which tightly couples the creation of design proposals with impact simulations informed by geographic contexts. Geodesign as such comprises a set of geo-information technology driven methods and techniques for planning built and natural environments in an integrated process. It includes project conceptualization, analysis, design specification, stakeholder participation and collaboration.

This academic publication brings together a wide var...

Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realms of art and knowledge he ventured into – painting, drawing and architecture, natural science, anatomy, mathematics, engineering and astronomy. His genius as a painter was reinforced by an analytical understanding of not only the human body but also nature and the physical laws of light. On the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519, this book celebrates th...

Oxford English Grammar Course Intermediate is a revision and expansion of the highly successful How English Works.

Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive growth. This updated and expanded companion guide is a stand-alone project workbook that provides a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G tool kit and process to a particular project, systematically explaining how to address the four key questions of the design thinking approach. In the field book, Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie, and Rachel Broz...