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View allArmy vehicles, drones and military personnel marked the start of a new collaboration in the API Hall on 1 July. The hall, which has housed large-scale research set-ups since 1977, will now be rented out to the Ministry of Defence for the development and testing of new technology in collaboration with start-ups and small businesses.
The working environment at Architecture suffers from systemic issues relating to social safety, leadership and career policy. These findings emerge from a risk analysis commissioned by the faculty, partly in response to reports received via TU Delft’s relatively new integrity and social safety reporting point.
Dependence on managers, a competitive culture and employees who do not always feel free to speak their minds. These are some of the findings from a risk analysis of the working environment in the Faculty of Architecture. According to Dean Machiel van Dorst, these problems call for a long-term cultural change. “Perhaps we need to move away from the ‘macho architect’ image.”
Between the online indignation at the news that women will get priority at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Britte Bouchaut saw a justifiably critical question: what do we do about degree programmes where men are completely in the minority? But she thinks that the real question is more complicated.
The Municipality of Delft will carry out additional checks this summer on illegal sex work in student housing complexes, hotels and holiday accommodation. According to the municipality, the number of reports increases during the summer months because many students are temporarily absent, while demand for sex work grows with the arrival of tourists.
A new policy paper states that the Ministry of Defence wishes to collaborate more closely with educational and research institutions. Discussions regarding the exact terms are still ongoing, including with TU Delft. On the morning of Wednesday 1 July, an innovation centre for start-ups and other smaller businesses will be officially opened there in the presence of Defence State Secretary Derk Boswijk.
She left as a dean and returned as TU Delft’s first female Rector Magnificus: since January this year, Hester Bijl has been a member of the university’s three-person Executive Board. Delta spoke with her about her time in Leiden, her vision for TU Delft, and her nomination for Top Woman of the Year. “I had a strong mother and grandmother as role models.”
Not every opinion deserves equal weight, believes Jenna Pfeifer. Some are cruel, lazy, or poorly informed. Still, she wonders how often she confuses disagreement with ignorance, or difference with danger. She therefore decides that she won’t ever make up her mind.
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