Kites have something innocent, something that reminds of childhood and endless summers. Our relationship with the wind made visible in a fun way. Can we give it a voice too? During this writing huddle, we claim space for childhood joy, while drafting our energy vows to the next generation.

Does love need to be liberated? If so, from what? The phrase ‘free love’ may be associated with mid to late 20th century hippies, but has its origins as a philosophy in religious movements which are thousands of years old. Since then, thinkers have come and gone asking how love can be made more free, and what we need to do to make it so.

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If you’re reading this, you were born. So, now what? Are you going to keep this cycle going? Would you really do that to someone, create them? If so, why? If not, why not?

NOTE: Location change || Is peace just an absence of war, or is it a way of life? How can we learn to live peacefully? Some have theorized that peacefulness is a virtue, like courage or open-mindedness. Others think peace does not have a chance in a world where war is always a viable strategy.

Do you believe in monsters? Perhaps in our disenchanted age the category seems archaic. We no longer fear vampires, ghouls, or dragons. What about serial killers, predators, war criminals, and those that we often call monstrous?

TU Delft is composed of tens of thousands of people, academic staff, administrative staff, technical, facilities, and maintenance workers, not to mention students, visiting researchers, and the birds outside Alma. But what is TU Delft?

Having fun, zoning out, seeking thrills, admiring beautiful things, learning, festivity, exercise, and Netflix are all contenders for ways to spend our free time. Sometimes we do a few at once. There’s hundreds of ways to spend our free time, but are some better than others?

Silicon Valley was not just a place, but it had its own ideologies, and they echo today in the halls of power, shaping the thoughts and decisions of policy makers. How much of our world is beholden to the views of figures like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk? How safe are democratic institutions?

Why are the world’s biggest problems so hard to solve?
The shirt you wear right now was made by a child in a faraway country that was not paid fairly for their work. The phone in your pocket cannot be recycled and is barely repairable. Our planet keeps heating up with no end in sight.