Frans-Willem Korsten, A Dutch Republican Baroque

Willem A . de Graaf

Using Hypermedia in Teaching Baroque Interior Design as Seen in Dutch Paintings

Although the whole world adapts ICT information and communication technologies in learning and teaching visual arts for the benefit of both the student and the society, the Middle East is motionless. ME teachers need training, institutional support and motivation to apply ICT in classrooms. Preparing a traditional lecture, including visual projected examples by data show takes less time. Doing ...

Building a Republican Peace

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

Baroque Technology

As new interactive systems evolve, they frequently hit a sweet spot: A few new tricks to learn, and users gets tremendous benefits, simplifying their lives. But beyond that lies the dark phase of baroque technology: increasing complexity with little payoff. We will look at examples for both sweet-spot and baroque interactive technologies, from GPS devices to window systems, find out how to iden...

Willem J. Kolff: a great man.

Willem Kolff, often called the father of the artificial kidney, died in January 2009, 3 days before his 98th birthday. During his long life he received numerous honors and accolades for his work. Many people thought he should have received the Nobel Prize, but as he once said himself, they do not honor people who build mouse traps. Yet because of the mouse traps he built, almost one million peo...