What, to you, are the underlying reasons for (let’s be honest, mostly male) violence in society? How would you go about engineering and designing a safer society?
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?
In deze lezing neemt Bart Root u mee op een fascinerende reis, van de diepten van onze oceanen tot de verre uithoeken van het zonnestelsel. Hij laat zien welke ontdekkingen er, dankzij baanbrekend onderzoek van professor Meinesz, naar het zwaartekrachtsveld van onze planeet zijn gedaan.
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?
How can you make your research REALLY inclusive? Part of TU Delft EDI Week.
Bring your works in progress – your sketchbook, colored pencils, pastels, fiber art, poetry book, and more!
Public spaces are crucial for fostering interaction and a sense of belonging. But are they designed for all? This Autumn we will investigate how to create public spaces as dynamic networks of relationships.
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? Is it just a university? If so, what kind? How could we and should we describe it, and what can we learn when we try?
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? Does it help us to understand our world to keep this category, for some things so especially scary and perhaps evil?
