In 2014 when Tim Wiegel was introduced to the concept of Obeya, pieces of a puzzle started falling into place. The Obeya (Japanese for ‘big room’) is a physical space where visual management is used to align operational teams and leadership in their efforts to translate strategy into meaningful day-to-day work and results. Toyota started using Obeya during the development of the Prius in the 90’s. Both the car itself and the way it was developed were a huge success from a project manage...

History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction presents a reasoned overview of the conceptual and historical backgrounds of the humanities.

The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities may seem se...

Al in zijn eigen tijd was de status van

de Venetiaanse schilder Titiaan (1488-

1576) legendarisch. Hij werkte op de

grens tussen de renaissance en de barok

en werd vereerd op gelijke voet met de

groten der aarde. Zijn picturale stijl,

buitengewone kleurgebruik en virtuoze

techniek waren en zijn nog steeds een

onuitputtelijke inspiratiebron voor

generaties kunstenaars. Onder meer

Rubens en Van Dyck hadden een grote

bewondering voor Titiaans werk en

bestudeerden het uitvoerig.

Portret van een d...

This first monograph on conceptual artist Stefaan Dheedene (°1975, Belgium) brings an overview of 20 years of artistic practice. The book can be considered as an instrument or handbook, that was created in order to conceive a mental and physical space in which the oeuvre can be compressed and interrelationships can be exposed. This monograph was structured by Dheedene himself, by the use of eight named lists. This principle makes the underlying artistic research visible and creates the possi...

The book Labyrinth exhibits a selection of extraordinary photographs by Tim Onderbeke (°1983) of architecture by Alfons Hoppenbrouwers, Juliaan Lampens, Paul Felix, Paul Meekels, Jul De Roover, Jan Tanghe, Lode Wouters, René Stapels, Victor Bourgeois and objects and sculptures by Roger Bonduel.

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I’m very sensitive to the ‘appearance’ of a building in an environment. As I wandered through the Flemish landscape, I was drawn to the aesthetics of these properties and to the host of ever...

Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent in 1988. Together with artists such as Wim Delvoye (°1965) he focuses mainly on the possibilities of how painting could be presented in order to understand our increasingly complicated postmodern society. In doing so he wants to seal the gap with conceptual art, as opposed to a previous generation of contemporary artists in Belgium, which followed the new German painting. Bytebier places the paintings in dipty...

Marcel Wanders lanceert Special Edition van Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age

Nieuwe uitgave is toegankelijk vervolg op succesvolle Limited Edition

Ontwerper Marcel Wanders brengt op 1 september een Special Edition uit van Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age. Deze nieuwe uitgave is het vervolg op de Limited Edition die in 2016 uitkwam welke is uitverkocht. Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age is Marcel Wanders’ eerbetoon aan de 17e-eeuwse Nederlandse meesterwerken uit de Eregalerij van het Rijksmus...

During the Battle of Arnhem, Hotel Schoonoord in Oosterbeek, the parental home of primary school teacher Hendrika (Riek) van der Vlist, finds itself in the front line. The British take over the hotel as a field hospital. Together with other volunteers Riek helps hundreds of wounded British, Polish and German soldiers. Even when Schoonoord falls into German hands she continues to care for the wounded.

When the Airbornes are transported from Schoonoord by the Germans, Hendrika goes with them to...