Building on the success of last year’s poster conference, emerging out of the core course, Designing Academic Inquiry, this year’s students did a fantastic job of raising the bar even higher.Whilst last year’s conference focussed on issues of direct relevance to the city of The Hague itself (+Public transportation +Healthcare +Recycling and waste management +Sporting and leisure facilities +Museums and cultural provisions +Parks and open public spaces), this year’s took a broader, global perspective on questions of environmental sustainability.
Building on the success of last year’s poster conference, emerging out of the core course, Designing Academic Inquiry, this year’s students did a fantastic job of raising the bar even higher.Whilst last year’s conference focussed on issues of direct relevance to the city of The Hague itself (+Public transportation +Healthcare +Recycling and waste management +Sporting and leisure facilities +Museums and cultural provisions +Parks and open public spaces), this year’s took a broader, global perspective on questions of environmental sustainability.
A very effective device on this poster was the use of a mirror in the screen of a laptop, to suggest that the audience was always and already a participant in the issue.
Other groups tackled more familiar materials, such as cotton, copper, water, rubber and wood, albeit with equally provocative and powerful messages.
In the end, as last year, our poster conference was honoured by the presence of the alderman for education of the city of The Hague, Ingrid van Engelshoven, who answered questions about the various ways in which the city is committed to environmental sustainability, and she asked LUC to prepare some policy recommendations for the city based on the work done for this conference.
Many congratulations to all the students and staff involved in making this second Designing Academic Inquiry poster conference such a success. As last year, it was extremely impressive to see what students can achieve even after such a short period at LUC.
With admiration,
Chris (the dean)
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