Genen, Memen en Systemen

De evolutietheorie is ontstaan als verklaring voor het ontstaan van de soorten vanuit de genen. Maar de theorie is ook toepasbaar op het denken – memen –  en zelfs op artefacten – systemen -. Bij dit “pretcollege” zullen allerlei prikkelende basisgedachten over dit onderwerp passeren. Verder ligt het in de bedoeling enkele wonderlijke aspecten van […]

Movie Night: Life Off Grid

Life Off Grid is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results. On the evening of 14th December we will watch this movie together. Before the movie we will watch an introduction from the movie director, Phillip Vannini, recorded for TU Delft […]

Living Survival Guide: Health and Wellbeing

Getting acclimated to a new town and a new university can be challenging. Doing so in a new country can be even more so. If you want to know how to navigate the medical system in the Netherlands, join us for our second Living Survival Guide. The Survival Guide is a series published in Delta […]

Delta Debate: Money vs. Morals

Money vs. Morals – Should you work for Greenpeace or Shell? The position of the future engineer is crucial in the trade-off between environmental challenges and economic prosperity. How can technical minds be used best to benefit the environment when the main focus of big corporations is profit. Do large corporations provide the best handholds […]

Lunchdebat: Oorlog 3.0 – Hoe voeren we oorlog in de toekomst?

Hoe voeren we oorlog in de toekomst? Dit debat wordt georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de theatervoorstelling The Great Warmachine van theatermaker Joachim Robbrechts, die ook aan het debat zal deelnemen. Hij betoogt dat we vrij moeten leren denken, ook als het gaat om strijd. Oorlog wordt tegenwoordig overal gevoerd en in de toekomst zelfs op […]

The School of Life: How to change the world

Do you feel the need to do something that truly matters? Do you want to contribute to the world?Sometimes all efforts may seem pointless in the face of daunting global challenges. Still, new examples of successful initiatives keep popping up, showing us there may be a way. How can you the convert the wish for […]

Inside Syria: A Photo Exhibition

This exhibition, which also ran in May this year, is being shown again together with the lecture The Syrian Conflict on Tuesday, November 22nd. ——— Aleppo, 2014. Photographer Fouad Hallak captures the daily lives of Syrians in rebel held territory. Hallak, 27, fled Syria and currently lives in a refugee camp in the Netherlands. Come […]

Swami at the Uni

This December SG is being visited by Indian Swami Jyothirmayah, who will speak about the application of ancient wisdom in everyday life. He is known to bring the deep knowledge of yoga, breathing, and meditation in a practical, light, and easy manner. How does ancient Eastern knowledge apply to modern life? What role if any does […]

Masterclass The School of Life: How to realise your potential

We are, most of us, aware that not all of our potential is currently being mined. We have intuitions of possibilities – in our love lives, our careers and our ways of living – that we have yet to explore. This class looks into what potential really is: where and when our intuitions are correct, […]

Lebanon: Life in a Refugee Camp

LEBANON THROUGH THE EYES OF A STUDENT By Marijke Panis Entrance free/free sandwich Last summer a lot of things happened in Europe; it made civil engineering student Marijke Panis realize that we all have to live with insecurities. Although we have only recently been experiencing a sense of insecurity in Europe, we are all well […]