Leisure & Events

Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) is a pioneer in esports education. Gaming is a digital form of leisure and a huge industry. There are...

How can we think outside, above and beyond the box?

Several leisure & events professionals gave their vision about the future of leisure in Uncover Magazine.

Several members of the World Leisure Organization (WLO) give their vision on the future of leisure in Uncover Magazine. Academy for Leisure & Events...

Lecturer Dorothé Gerritsen wrote an article for Uncover Magazine - Future of Leisure, about developments in the live fair industry. Among other things...

The leisure industry is influenced by what happens in society. This impact may take a while, such as the gradual ageing of the western population...

There is a growing awareness of the social impact of leisure. In companies, governments, social enterprises and in leisure science itself, both in...

It is 2040 and there are no waste bins on the streets, and there is no litter in sight. Nothing goes to waste, food leftovers become compost, and...

If you open your eyes, you see the cracks; if you listen, you hear the squeaking and creaking: nitrogen, loneliness, food banks, energy prices...

As our society evolves, so does our understanding of sustainability and its interplay with Leisure & Events. This complex relationship was spotlighted...

How do students of Leisure & Events Management look on the future of leisure? Students of different educational programmes in the Netherlands give...

Experience has long been at the centre of cultural and leisure offerings. In the 1990s, it was firmly put on the agenda by Pine and Gilmore. Recently...

The collaboration workplaces (Samenwerkplaatsen) of the Urban Living Lab Breda (ULLB) sees direct involvement of residents in their own living...

It is a term you see pop up in strategic plans, policy documents and in education more and more: placemaking. Will it be the new ‘buzzword’ of the...

What happens if 120 second-year students go on a placemaking mission in the city of Amsterdam? A story about happy communities, making international...

Rural communities face a range of negative developments that continue causing the disappearance of remote village communities and the weakening of...

Leisure has an important relationship to time, space, and place. In leisure studies we are used to thinking about time as the basic resource for...

Everything is space! But how everyone arranges that space for themselves and for others is becoming increasingly complex.

Lecturers Marco van Leeuwen and Peter Horsten of Leisure & Events wrote an article for Uncover Magazine about disabilities in connection to leisure...

Complex issues in society require a different logic than the logic and methods used so far. Is it really the experts, policy-makers and trusted...