During their first week, Professor Ramon Hanssen takes his students to Hofwijck – the house of Christiaan Huygens and centre of numerous scientific developments in the Golden Age.

Three, two, one, ignition!’ Stilte. Drie spannende seconden lang. Het Zweedse lanceerteam in Kiruna begint peentjes te zweten. Die studentenraket zal toch niet ontploffen? Op dat moment flitst er een steekvlam en schiet de Stratosraket er vandoor als een vuurpijl.

De dochter (in English: ‘The Daughter’) by Jessica Durlacher in Chinese or De ontdekking van de hemel (in English: ‘The Discovery of Heaven’) by Harry Mulisch in Italian: from October 1 there will be 120 translations of books by Dutch authors available to read in the TU Delft Library.

Forget about a storm in a teacup, what if you could embed a whole history lesson into one beautiful 17th century teacup? All you would have to do is drink your tea, get out your smart phone, hover it over the cup and voila – you get an augmented reality history lesson.

Rare earth minerals have a key role in our contemporary electronic digital apparatus. The current global REM market is representative of the complexity of resource extraction, manufacturing, international trade and consumer demand.

The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, geo-ICT consultancy Geodan and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), played host to the second Geodesign Summit Europe on September 10 to 12, 2014.