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My LEGO-lomaniac Society When I was a kid I spent a lot of time building little LEGO cities with my friend. We would think of the lives our little LEGO friends were having in their little LEGO world and try to assist them as much as possible with all the bricks we had. When I had grown out of my LEGO years, I often played the SimCity computer games. In these games I’d try to build my virtual citizens the best virtual city I could, before the point where I would torment my denizens with earthquakes and alien invasions of course. Naturally, the entire premise of LEGO is the endless possibilities, and I could always set Sim City’s game difficulty to ‘easy’ whenever it got tough. These activities were fun because they allowed me to try and shape a world in the way I wanted. Sadly, real developing towns and countries can’t grow out of poverty in a single Wednesday afternoon. And, looking back, I made a lot of assumptions about what actually constitutes development and progress. In this Intermania

we delve into some of the issues developing countries face, and some issues regarding how we, the developed world, think we are helping. These issues are tough to solve and thinking about them might give you a little bit of a headache. So, as to bring this Intermania to balance, we included lots of puzzles and other summer activities! By the way, this is my last Intermania as chief editor, as Marit will be taking over from me. I wish her the best and hope she can find a way to help the Intermania magazine and committee develop further. And with this terrible pun, I will show myself out the door. Bye!

Table of contents A New Coat of Paint The new board introduces herself.

Research in a Developing Country Dos and Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ts

HousCie Archive Discoveries

Warzone Hitchhiking

Selfish Development Column: Hub Coumans

Are We Ever Done Developing? Intermania Dives Deep

Huize RIC TIW cribs

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AFExCie: Vamos a Barcelona!

A Day With the Cie++

IntroCie: Viva la Fiesta!

Wereld van Verschil Column: Britte Bouchaut

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Study Tour 2017: The Cost of Development

Journey to the Dutch Culture

Urban Heat Island Cooling

18 Puzzles! 50

Developing Countries

Flowchart 20 So you think you can volunteer? Voluntourism: Blessing or Curse?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Raining Cats and Little Development Aid

The Day I Became an Other A short story by Auke Pols

Humans of Intermate Sjaars Edition

In het Midden

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55 Silly Sjaars How does listening to music help you with studying? [V/Br]ouw Je Eigen Bier

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Sea of Broken Dreams

26 *Dutch Articles

Intermania Summer Photo Callenge 29 Ontwikkelingsland 33* Column: Jan Smits The Hypocrisy of Responsible Development

De Wereld Verbeteren in Amsterdam-Oost 36* 2

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Frank Vendrig Anke van Rietschoten, Ashly Berghuizen, Benedetta Malagoni, Britte Bouchaut, Colin de Bruin, Hugo Bezombes, Ileen Smits, Manon van Hastenberg, Marit Loonen, Meike Heldoorn, Nienke Buikstra, Noël Coenraad, Pam Philippens intermania@ieis.tue.nl Drukkerij Snep

New Board: Pharos

A New Coat of Paint After having had to repaint the walls of Internaat following the trashing, Pharos is ready to put its coat of purple paint on Intermate. Here is a brief introduction to the board and to their plans for the upcoming year. Text: Hugo Bezombes & Mieke van de Veerdonk; Pictures: Ashly Berghuizen

A Frenchman, a sassy, a nerd, a midget, a sober guy and Ed Sheeran walk into a bar, a couple of years later they come out covered in purple as the board of Intermate. Over the course of the past few months our group unity and

its own unique flavour. One of those flavours was discovering the French cuisine, which apparently consists of downing a bottle of red wine and eating a baguette. Of course, this is a typical cultural attribute. The mixture of

Hugo Bezombes - Chairman

I expect the upcoming year to give me the opportunity to push myself outside of my comfort zone and to expand it in the process. I look forward to seeing you all year round for a game of foosball, a cup of coffee or a drink!

Nienke Buikstra - Secretary

I really look forward to the upcoming year which will consist of a lot of hard work, fun activities, stress, developing myself, joking around in the board room, working with the FSE associations, and of course eating lunch with you guys on the couch. feeling has emerged and our privacy settings have decreased. Our daily encounters, living in a tent and riding a bakfiets together, all the sleepless nights and finally knowing each other’s every move through our shared Outlook agendas have all led to this. Our group feeling wasn’t so easily accepted by Delphi though and had to be tested at the overdrachtsweekend. So, as tradition, we went on a tour around the university, exploring each association with 4

alcohol and sleep deprivation became harder to bear, but luckily there was… Kelphin. An inspirational mascot, a guiding spirit and a horse on a stick who lifted our mood in the darkest of hours, namely the one between 3 and 4 in the morning. He lit the way in the dark suburbs of Rotterdam, in a similar way that we hope to achieve during our board year. Speaking of lighting the way, have you ever heard about the Lighthouse of Alexandria? It was actually one of the seven ancient wonders Intermania

New: Board Delphi of the world. The function of the lighthouse was to lead sailors to shore safely, it was a guiding light for them. This lighthouse was also referred to as the Pharos of Alexandria, the name we chose for our board. Like the

sailors of old who needed direction from the Pharos, we see Intermate needing the same thing as we move across the turbulent seas of the future, especially with our move to Atlas and digitalization.

Fenna Wit - Treasurer

This upcoming year I will challenge myself through being Treasurer and the board year as a whole. I’m looking forward to organizing fun activities for the members and enjoying them with you.

Mieke van de Veerdonk - Commissoner of Education

The coming year I want to develop myself through all the learning experiences a board year offers and to contribute my part in the educational changes at the university. Besides that I want to keep having just as much fun as I’ve always had at Intermate and grow many years older! Jobert Zoetbrood - Commissoner of Internal Affairs

I am highly motivated to make some changes to Intermate that will improve our association in the long term. On top of that, I’ll always be happy to have a nice chat on the couch or during a drink.

Bert van Gestel - Commissoner of External Affairs

I’m really looking forward to organize many amazing activities with our possible future employers! Apart from that I’d like to apologize for all the Christmas music that you’ll be hearing at inappropriate times. July 2017

New Board: Pharos The move to Atlas will be one of the biggest things to prepare for in the upcoming year: as details about the move become more available, we will be able to make more concrete plans. We see this as being essential due to the short time frame that the 35th board of Intermate would have to prepare for such a move. Thus the bulk of the work will be done in our year, which is why we have assigned two board members

“Now that’s something even the Oracle couldn’t have predicted.” to work on it. While we think that the move away from IPO is an unfortunate development, it still presents interesting challenges and developments. Following up on challenges from Atlas, where we will have less storage space for our

archives, Intermate will have to modernize and update its systems so that they take up less space. The key to that is the ongoing digitalization that we will continue during our board year. Even though this digitalization concerns mostly the databases, we will also look into the digitalization of the financial matters. Using the progress we make in this domain, we want to ensure that these systems are accessible and used. One of the uses we want to implement is the systematic creation of knowledge documents to be created for future years. This is in line with what was done by previous boards, by giving instructions on how the various systems of Intermate work. Now, thanks to the modernized databases, we will be able to make accees to these documents easier for all. This is to make sure that knowledge within Intermate is preserved, both between boards and within committees. These efforts are on top of the current set-up of intercommittee learning that already exist like

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the committee meetings and will hopefully help our members and committees develop skills and work more efficiently. On top of that, in the upcoming year, we will be preparing for the Lustrum. The year after our board year, Intermate will turn 35 and celebrations are in order. Delphi set up the Lustrum committee in their board year but it will be our job to set up the sub-committees and to ensure that everything for some amazing events in Academic 2018-2019! As you can probably tell a lot of our policy revolves around one word: future. That is because we want to make preparations for the upcoming year and years. In line with what you previously read, we want to write a multiple-year plan to ensure that there is some continuity between successive board years at Intermate and have some general goals that the association should strive for. July 2017

“As you can probably tell, a lot of our policy revolves around one word: future.” These are some of the more concrete things that we want to achieve during our board year and for future years. But of course a board year is also a lot of fun and we intend on having some. Even if our first week consisted mostly of cleaning up after Delphi’s devastation of the Internaat and recovering from our constitution drink, we are already having fun and are all excited to start getting into things. Now that’s something even the Oracle couldn’t have predicted. 7

HousCie

HousCie Archive Discoveries It has been a while since you last heard from the HousCie. It has been quiet since our beautiful movie presentation on the GM, but we have been quite busy. For example, last month the HousCie got tasked with the assignment to clean up the archive. This meant that we had to digitalize all the minutes of old General Meetings. During this hard work we found out that we have had one more GM than we previously thought and should now actually be at #158 instead of #157. We also made sure that all of the financial documents were preserved. Additionally, there were some fun finds in the archive, since we stumbled upon a lot of old pictures of our association. These were, like, really old pictures, even older than our oldest members we have now. As we are very curious people, we have taken a look at all of them and have found some interesting ones that we want to share with you. Text: Teun Timmermans & Thanh Nguyen, HousCie; Images: Intermate Archive

Back in the day, the AC was responsible for all sorts of activities, like the football tournament (!), parties and fighting with the ME. Even though we were fighting, we still were proper students. Each year we got in contact with the police and asked when we could come over to have a brawl.

Reldag, 1999

The board made a decision that was not popular with all Intermate members. This one guy was brave enough to show what he thought of this decision.

Once upon a time, Intermate discovered a very exotic tribe living in the woods of Limburg. At first, it looked like a gathering of homeless people, but they judged too quickly. These people were on their way to a very special schoolâ&#x20AC;Ś

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CiePlusPlus

<title>A Day with the CIE++</title> We have seen new birthday screens and a new photo booth pop up in the Internaat. How did these things come to be? Our newest committee, the CIE++, talks about what they did last year and what it is like to be in the committee. Text: Laura Nijenhuis & Paolo Franken, CiePlusPlus; Images: CiePlusPlus

<body> You might not know what Intermate’s youngest committee is working on. The CIE++ was founded to tackle Intermate’s digital problems. These include, for example, the knowledge transfer (wiki) system, the self-service bad boy, birthday screens on the TV, and we are working on an Intermate app! Another problem we have to tackle is our visibility. Since we are working in the weekends and evenings mostly, our work has been happening in the dark for the most part. In this article we will tell you what happens during a typical CIE++ day.

<time>9:30</time> We meet at the Internaat, where two committee members are already baking eggs. Together, we start the day with a delicious breakfast. Some members are doing gymnastics. <time>10:15</time> Jobert puts on some music from the movie ‘Moana’ which is apparently his favorite, and we start with a brainstorm, discussing what projects we are going to work on today. We split up in teams, and start working.

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CiePlusPlus <time>13:00</time> Occasional excursion time. We realized that we did not have all the necessary equipment for our projects. One time, we had a very adventurous trip to the Kruisstraat where we picked up some pallets to create a casing for the Photo Booth. We brought 4 pallets on our bikes back to Intermate where we eventually found out we already had enough pallets and so we had just wasted almost two hours on picking up pallets. Another time, we went to all camera stores in Eindhoven to find a camera that would work with our photo booth. In the end, we did not find the right camera and decided to use a webcam instead.

As you can see the life of the Cie++ is not necessarily glamourous, but it is a hands-on committee that grants access to Intermate like no other committee. So if you have some programming experience and feel like joining, please contact us!

<time>17:00</time> Time for dinner already. As CIE++ we perfected the art of making wraps as we always eat them as dinner. Personal tip: We discovered that shoarma and wraps go really well together. We even thought about creating the WrapCie. <time>19:00</time> We go back to work. Because of our excursions a lot of hours were not used for programming, so we decide to pull an all-nighter. <time>22:00</time> We are actually getting a lot of work done this time. Sometimes, we attend a party together. <time>00:14</time> We do some occasional sawing of pallets to build our photo booth. At this point we are even considering to call ourselves the CIEKlusKlus. <time>01:00</time> The board responsible decides to go home but the rest of the committee still feels like working.

This is the end result of our pimped photo booth, we hope you will enjoy it! Find your crazy photos at intermate.nl/ cieplusplus. It is possible to make custom themes, so if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to make use of this for activities, please contact us at

<time>2:00</time> Time to go home. July 2017

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IntroCie

Viva la Fiesta! The academic year is coming to an end, so the introduction committee is already working hard to give our new freshmen the best introduction imaginable. Arjan explains about the next introduction week. Text: Arjan Derks, IntroCie

Buenos dias! The introduction committee greets you. Do you remember your own intro? The awesome time you had? We have been busy planning the introduction activities in the past couple of weeks to give our new generation just that. What have we been doing in the past weeks exactly? Well, we have come up with an introduction theme, we have had our matching days already and are still working to make the introduction week the best week of the year for our future Intermate members. We hope to do this by having a Mexican theme, Fiesta Mexicana. We organize parties, workshops and business cases all based on Mexican things (aside from the general Intro for the TU/e, with which we also help). For many soon-to-be freshmen, the introduction week is the most memorable week in their university life and we as a committee strive for nothing less than of that. They will get a good taste of student life

and in some cases, their first beers. We will have fun, games and barbecues, parties and hangovers. But we cannot do this all alone. To really pass on the Intermate spirit, we need you, dear readers of the Intermania. We will have a range of different activities for which we need more people to bolster our forces, as in doing volunteer work at one of the games or the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities that the CIC organizes. Partaking in these actions will grant you access to the parties, and some precious beers, and of course the eternal gratitude of the Introduction committee 2017. If you only want to have some food and drinks, you can always come to the barbeque on Tuesday or the party in order to meet (some of) the new students. It will be your best chance to persuade them to become active members, and it will help you feel young again. So bring out your biggest sombrero, put on a colorful poncho and party along. No Siesta, viva la iesta!

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Wereld van Verschil

Column Britte Bouchaut

Het is slechts anderhalf uur met de boot, en toch kom je terecht in een compleet andere wereld. Ik heb het over mijn Indo-eiland, Bintan, en Azië’s luxepaardje, Singapore. Allebei gelegen aan hetzelfde water, maar overlevend op totaal andere bronnen van inkomsten. Waar Singapore het meeste van zijn geld vergaart in de Singaporese haven aan bedrijven en instanties van overal ter wereld, moet Bintan het vooral hebben van de rijke tatta’s uit Singapore zelf. Recht vanuit Orchard, na het shoppen bij Prada, Pucci, en Gucci, met je Louis Vuitton koffertje op de boot naar Bintan. Hoewel de rest van het eiland uit niet veel meer bestaat dan palmbomen, zand en muggen, is het noorden van het eiland een oase van luxe en rust voor Singaporezen. Dikke Dollars spenden aan kokosnoten (geïmporteerd uit Thailand natuurlijk) en zonnebrandcrème met whitening smeren. Stel je voor dat je bruin zou worden daar liggend op het strand. Natuurlijk doet Singapore ook het nodige voor diens eigen toeristen, waar ze ook wat inkomsten uit vergaren. Niet alleen is Singapore het startpunt voor een reis door de rest van Azië waardoor ze veel toeristen trekken, ook het ‘eigen’ volk wil vermaakt worden. Als de beroemde Singaporese architectuur aangapen niet meer genoeg is kan men altijd nog een bezoek brengen aan Singapore’s artificiële toeristen eiland voor een selfie met de Merlion, een bezoek aan Madame Tussauds, of een dagje achtbanen in Universal Studios. Maar, er is nog een andere wereld van verschil. Stress-levels in Singapore zijn sky-high. Altijd optimaal presteren, succes uitstralen en bergen geld neertellen om er altijd op je best uit te kunnen zien. Aan de andere kant van het water zijn mensen relaxed, gelukkig, en geven ze niet zoveel om luxe. En, hoewel ze het relaxte leven hier soms een beetje overdrijven naar mijn mening, moet ik wel zeggen dat de mensen er hier ook goed uitzien. Zelfs ik ben van wat rimpels verlost, alleen maar omdat ik hier niet continu achter m’n laptop zit of aan stress word blootgesteld. Hoewel Singapore op het eerste gezicht fantastisch lijkt, wat zou je zelf willen? Werken om te leven, of leven om te werken? Het zijn twee totaal verschillende werelden, maar hier zijn ze dichterbij en meer verweven met elkaar dan waar dan ook. July 2017

“Werken om te leven, of leven om te werken? ” –Britte

Study Tour

The Cost of Development Only a couple of weeks left before the start of the Study Tour to Malaysia and Singapore, two countries that have experienced incredible economic growth. But at what cost? Text: Study Tour committee

Since its independence in 1965, Singapore has grown to become one of the four Asian Tigers, reaching growth rates up to 6% per year. This fast development is mostly thanks to Singapore’s first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who concentrated his policies on rapid economic growth and support for business entrepreneurship, and helped the small country shift from a Third World economy to First World economy in a couple of decades. In exchange for their new high living standard, the Singaporean had to hand in quite a share of political and personal freedom, resulting in the country being defined as partly free by Freedom House (2017 Freedom in the World).

Berhad, Malaysian National Oil Company), which is responsible for 45% of the government’s budget. This name might ring a bell, as it is also the name of the famous twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, which are the tallest twin skyscrapers of the world and a majestic testimony of the Malaysian oil

“Petronas is responsible for 45% of the government's budget...” Malaysian growth started some years later. From the 1970s on, the country experienced an economic boom and is now considered a newly industrialized country. Malaysia was able to develop in different sectors and make good use of the available natural resources. Two sectors in particular caught the attention of both domestic and international investors: oil and gas, and palm oil. The Malaysia economy largely depends on Petronas (short for Petroliam Nasional 14

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Study Tour power. Needless to say, oil power is a great medal with a very dark backside, marked with ecological disasters and doomed to cease to exist as soon as the national oil reserves are left empty. Even though the Malaysian authorities are well aware of the need to develop alternative sources of income, this process seems to be moving at a slow pace. The production and export of palm oil is also vital for the Malaysian economy. The worldwide importance of this resource might not be as obvious as for oil, but palm oil has grown to become an indispensable component for several industries. It has a long list of advantages compared to other oilseeds, from exceptionally high yields, to longer shelf life and a versatile chemical composition. The production of palm oil has more than tripled in the last 20 years. The fatty substance is being used in a wide scale of alimentary products. It can be found in the majority of baked products, from bread, to pizza, to cakes and cookies. Margarine, chocolate and ice-cream also often contain palm oil. It is also applied in the production

of cosmetics and detergents (including shampoos and body washes). Biofuel derived from palm oil is also becoming more and more available. The country used to be the largest producer and exporter of palm oil in the world, but in 2006 Indonesia surpassed Malaysia due to limitations of land for further expansion. Still, the two countries account for 85% of world production. The largest listed palm oil company, Sime Darby, is Malaysian and was founded with large investments by the government and is therefore closely connected with the Malaysian economy. Oil palm plantations in Malaysia are largely based on the estate management system, meaning that a limited number of institutions is in charge of enormous areas. The boom in production of last two decades has had disastrous consequences for both environment and people. Deforestation, including parts of Malaysian primary rainforest, one of the oldest rainforests in the world, is one of the irreversible repercussions of extensive palm oil production. Air, soil and water pollution, beside threatening the survival of several animal species and indigenous communities complete the grim picture that palm oil has already painted.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The palm oil industry is responsible for the eradication of poverty in Malaysia.â&#x20AC;?

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On the other hand, the industry is also responsible for the eradication of poverty in Malaysia, produced millions of jobs, improved infrastructure and is one of the important actors in the Malaysian transition from a Third World economy to the developed country it is nowadays. 15

Living in the Netherlands

Journey to the Dutch Culture Ever since she was a kid, Gabriela was looking at the Netherlands with a curious eye and, since a couple of years, she has been able to experience the Netherlands for real. Now, she takes a look back at how she got here. Text & Images: Gabriela Feijoo, student Human-Technology Interaction

My experience with the Dutch culture started long before I first arrived in Eindhoven in August, 2015. It may sound stereotypical, but like many, my first encounter with the culture was with the one and only Gouda cheese. Growing up in Venezuela, we used to eat Gouda cheese for breakfast to stuff our ‘arepas’, which are corn flour patties typical from Venezuelan traditional cuisine. In fact, people referred to Gouda cheese as the ‘yellow cheese’ to distinguish it from the majority of local-made cheeses, which were predominantly fresh ‘white cheeses’. Any

place that sold arepas had, without a doubt, the yellow cheese as part of their menu. Football was also a big part of my childhood. I became a fan when I started watching Real Madrid games with my dad at seven years old. For the FIFA 98 World Cup, I loved collecting stickers of each national team to fill my football stickers’ Panini album. Since the 1970s, the Dutch National team was famously known in South America as ‘La Naranja Mecánica’ (the mechanical orange) because of their bright orange uniforms of course, and the level of performance reached

“I remember being excited when I was able to get my hands on the sticker of Edwin van der Sar....”

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in those years under the lead of the legendary Johan Cruyff. I remember being excited when I was able to get my hands on the sticker of Edwin van der Sar, which was one of my favorite goal keepers at the time. For this World Cup, Spain had been eliminated in early rounds, so I found myself cheering for the Netherlands when they beat Argentina in the quarter finals. Much later in 2007, Real Madrid for the first time had a total of four Dutch players in the team, including the great forwards Arjen Robben and Ruud van Nistelrooy, who became a top scorer and led the team to its 31st victory of the Spanish Liga. Now I come to realize that both of these players had catapulted their careers by playing for PSV! Intermania

Living in the Netherlands By now, we have cheese and football as part of my exposure to Dutch culture, but it all intensified when KLM became my favorite airline. After having to leave Venezuela due to the political situation, our family moved to Spain in 2005. I went to school there for a year and then we moved again with my father, a petrochemical engineer, to Saudi Arabia where he has been working since 2006. I was fortunate enough that the company my father worked for offered a sponsorship for me to go to a boarding school in Switzerland. This is the time I became somewhat of a frequent flyer of KLM when I would fly between Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Spain to be with my family. Whenever I could, I would try to fly with KLM. I remember the first time I tried the Punselie’s stroopkoekjes that the flight attendants would bring. However, it were the layovers at Schiphol Airport that became the highlight of each trip. Time would fly by as I

After countless layovers at the airport, Gabriela finally sets foot outside Schiphol Airport.

walked around the bookstores, the kiosks full of tulips, and of course the food delicatessen shops with all the varieties of Dutch cheeses you could think of. This may have acted as some kind of subliminal messaging that made me start loving the Dutch culture layover after layover. The day that Amsterdam became my final destination was in the Spring of April 2011. July 2017

The Evoluon in Eindhoven is yet to receive official inclusion in the 7 Wonders of the World, but Gabriela was still happy to see it.

After more than 20 layovers at Schiphol in the span of six years, I finally set foot outside of the airport. You can only imagine my excitement stepping out of those exit doors. At last, I visited Amsterdam for the first time with a group of friends, and it was everything I had hoped for: cycling around the beautiful canals, going to the Van Gogh museum, eating Vlaamse frietjes, and simply enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of the city center. After that trip, I really could picture myself living in the Netherlands. As a result, in the summer of 2012, I attended a marketing summer program at Utrecht University. Studying there inspired me to look for other educational opportunities, which lead to my Master’s Program at the TU/e. Through being immersed in Eindhoven for two years now, I have had the chance to experience the Dutch culture in a whole new light. From going to the Evoluon and celebrating King’s Day to living like a local and grocery shopping in Dutch at the Saturday Street market and Albert Heijn. While I still have so much more to discover; the culture, the people, and the memories I have made here give me the confidence to call this city my second home. 17

Graduation Project

Urban Heat Island Cooling Ever wondered what students actually do during their graduation project? What can you do research on? Ashly gives you an insight in her project about urban heat island cooling. Text: Ashly Berghuizen, student Architecture, Building and Planning

I am probably not telling you anything new when I say urban populations are rapidly increasing, putting more and more pressure on the global sustainability challenge. Today, approximately 54 percent of the world population lives in urban areas, this is expected to increase even further to 66 percent by 2050 (United Nations, 2014). Although all areas worldwide are expected to show a growth, especially developing regions in Africa and Asia are forecasted to show the largest urbanization rate, with the effect that the largest cities will mostly be concentrated in the global south. These are also regions where sustainable development challenges are highest and integrated solutions for sustainable urban development are needed in order to maintain and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants. Because this excessive and unplanned growth of these cities does not go without consequences concerning energy consumption, environmental impact and health issues of the inhabitants (Gago, et al., 2013). In order to function properly, cities require large quantities of energy; they are responsible for about 75% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consumption of resources (Madlener & Yasin, 2011). However, the urbanization of the world population does not only cause an increase in energy consumption, but also alters the climate characteristics of an area, forming unique urban microclimates. Urban microclimates can cause a potential increase in building energy demand and also human thermal comfort can be negatively affected. 18

The most prominent features of these urban microclimates are an increase in temperature, a reduction in the daily temperature range, a change in wind distribution and a change in precipitation rate (Gago, et al., 2013). The increase in temperature can mainly be attributed to the so called urban heat island effect (UHI), which indicates that the air temperatures in cities are generally higher than in the surrounding countryside and rural areas. Besides the urbanization also climate change expectancies are forecasting an increase in both frequency and intensity of heat waves (Kovats & Hajat, 2008). These heat waves cause peaks in the temperature increase in cities causing heat stress and heatrelated morbidity and mortality (Montazeri, et al., 2017). Besides the negative effects on outdoor thermal comfort and air pollution,

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Approximately 54 percent of the world population lives in urban areas...â&#x20AC;? the temperature increase also leads to a change in energy demand of the surrounding buildings, as additional cooling in the summer is often required to maintain comfort levels. All in all, the heating of the earth combined with the fast urbanization causes negative effects on the thermal environment in cities Intermania

Graduation Project causing serious local climatic unpleasant conditions and can even endanger human health and lives. In order to mitigate these effects, measures should be taken in several areas, especially for cities where distinct hot seasons is evident.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green facades: green roofs, green facades, urban parks, street trees...â&#x20AC;? And now that is where my research comes in. Amongst the possibilities to mitigate the urban heat island is the application of vegetation in the built environment. This can be in the form of green measures such as green roofs, green facades, urban parks and street trees in urban areas. Vegetation influences not only the albedo (reflection factor) of a surface so more direct sunlight is reflected but also contributes to a process called evapotranspiration (where energy is consumed from the direct solar radiation and increases the latent heat rather than the

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sensible heat). This cools not only the leaves but also the air surrounding the leaves, causing a decrease of the air temperature in the city. During my graduation I will be focussing on green facades. These vegetated walls are of particular interest as they employ limited urban space, and especially in cities with a high density the wall area is almost double the roof surface, providing more space for application of the vegetation. However, studies have also shown that the cooling potential of green facades can be significantly influenced by the shape of a city (urban morphology/ geometry). For instance does the building height to street width ratio influence the cooling potential? Or does the lay-out of a city influence the potential? Is there an optimal amount of vegetation for different city types? To better understand the important impact of urban morphology on the cooling potentional and to provide meaningful and applicable information for real urban areas, therefore, my research will be pursued on a generic urban area. Accordingly, I will be answering the following research question during my graduation: Concerning the cooling potential of green facades, which urban morphologies per form better combined with which green faĂ§ade coverage ratios?

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So You Think You Can Volunteer? On the next page, you can read the perks of being a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;voluntouristâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and whether that is a positive thing or not. Always wanted to know if you have what it takes to help the less fortuned in Africa? Pam has the right quiz for you!

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Voluntourism: Blessing or Curse? Is voluntourism a one-way street or do developing countries truly benefit from the humble, volunteering tourists? Pam, an accidental ex-voluntourist herself, did some research to find out. Text: Pam Philippens, editorial staff

My backpack securely fastened on my back, my hiking boots attached to my feet. Standing at the airport of Entebbe (Uganda) with 19 other teenage girls, I felt ready for the adventure. We were all ready to educate underprivileged children, to build houses for poor families and to help local hospitals with the cure of ill babies. Most importantly, we were ready to make the world a better place with our own bare hands, completely unselfish and self-forgetful. After two weeks, hopelessly tired and with my body covered in a thin layer of red sand, I returned home. The great adventure I was hoping for? I had gotten that, without a doubt. Uganda had proven to be an amazingly beautiful country with an authentic culture

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and breathtaking nature. However, my worldsaving, poverty-fighting volunteering work had appeared to be a lot less breathtaking. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong: I had played with children, debated with them, weighed underweight babies, made nutritious peanut butter for them and helped building a stove for an old man. The point is that if I had not been there to do it, someone else would have. Namely: the local citizens themselves. The small peanut butter factory and hospital simply gave their employees a day off, in order to give us the opportunity to do their work. While we were mixing mud and grass, some Ugandan men built the stove. In an actual conversation between me and one of those men, he explained that if it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for us, they

en Theme would have just built the stove later that week all by themselves. Later, I understood that what I had experienced was not volunteering work, but a peek in the world of ‘poor people’. Of course, those children loved playing soccer with us tall, white girls, so we sure brought a smile to their faces, but that was basically all we were good for: being fun and interesting tourists.

“That was basically all we were good for: being fun and interesting tourists.”

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Facebook timelines are nowadays exploding with organizations advertising so-called ‘voluntourism’. Urban Dictionary explains: “Voluntourism is when hordes of – generally – the great unwashed backpacker brigade descend on a place to have a jolly nice holiday – usually at precious little cost to themselves – and do the occasional bit of good work.” While this definition screams cynicism, the question whether developing countries actually benefit from the humble work of these groups of tourists is a real, serious one. The debate has been going on for a long time: does every little bit help or should we leave development aid up to the big organizations, such as the Red Cross and Unicef? Columnist Rafia Zakaria elaborates: “As admirably altruistic as it sounds, the problem with voluntourism is its singular focus on the volunteer’s quest for experience, as opposed to the recipient community’s actual needs.” In his opinion, the issues of ‘hunger’ and ‘bad education’ are easy to understand and, therefore, Western people are likely to think that these issues are also easier to be 26

solved than the ones of their own society, “such as the failing inner-city schools in Chicago or the haplessness of those living on the fringes in Detroit,” Zakaria states. “In simple terms, the lack of knowledge of other cultures makes them easier to help.” Novelist Teju Cole agrees with this statement and offers a solution: “if Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.” It took Dutch blogger Daisy Scholte twelve years to realize that her volunteering work of two months in India had not been her most noble and selfless act, contrary to what she had always believed. She states that the psychological impact her arrival and, more importantly, her departure have had on the children there was probably more than she could imagine. Every time, they got attached to the friendly, hugging, white girl in front of their classroom. Every time, they were disappointed and left behind after a few weeks. “I was going to travel around India, so I had something amazing to look forward to. Those children did not.” On the other hand, there are people who do not agree with all the negative attention volunteers are getting these days. One of these people is Fredrick Wanyama, dean of the School of Development and Strategic

Daisy Scholte: “I had something amazing to look forward to. Those children did not.”

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Theme Studies at Maseno University in Kenya. He explains that the arrival of volunteers is highly appreciated by the communities. “Even though they combine their volunteering work with touristic trips, we do not see them as

only with the proper research and knowledge of the culture and the needs of the community, volunteering can truly contribute something to developing countries. Unfortunately, there are still too many organizations that simply

tourists. They come here to help.” Contrary to people like Zakaria and Scholte, he does believe that every little contribution helps and is important. “If the volunteers do not come, nothing happens.” Ibrahima Ndary Gueye, a Senegalese who has been a volunteer himself for the past five years, supports voluntourism, but solely when an expert researches the needs of the developing country and community. Gueye gives the example of a girl bringing boxes of canned beans to a village. However, beans are not eaten in that area and, more importantly, the citizens were not even starving. They did need (better) sanitary facilities and hospitals. He explains that whenever a local school is built, this is only helpful when there are also enough teachers available in the area. “When school books are donated, they should match the teaching program of the school,” says Gueye. Personally, I think that voluntourism is not completely ‘right’ and neither completely ‘wrong’. Gueye hits the nail right on the head:

want to benefit from the amounts of money Western people are willing to spend to “go on an adventure and save the poor little African children.” If you have aspirations of helping villages in developing countries, please do some thorough research on the organization you want to go with and the place you want to go to. I do not regret my experience in

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“My world-saving, povertyfighting volunteering work had appeared to be a lot less breathtaking.” Uganda, but that’s mostly due to the beauty of the country itself and my inexhaustible love for traveling. I do regret the organization I traveled with, because my bare hands have not made Uganda a better place at all. 27

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It’s Raining Cats and Little Development Aid As expensive as is might be to care for our pets, our love and affection keep us from considering those costs excessive. What happens when it’s unknown people on the other side of the world in need of our help? Text: Benedetta Malagoni, editorial staff

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Who does not love their pets? You do not need to spoil your dog with designer clothes or expensive stays at pet-spas to show how much you care, it will probably be very happy with a filled bowl and a nice walk now and then. Still, the pet industry is booming, and has been growing even throughout the recent recession. Americans spent $63 billion on their pets in 2016, according to the American Pet Products Association (APPA). On average, pet owners here in the Netherlands spent almost €600 for their furry friends in 2016. Food is the largest expense, followed by medicines and vet care, and a list of different services like grooming, boarding or pet sitting. In 2010 more than a thousand American pet owners participated in a survey, 42% said they would be likely to spend $5,000 on a single treatment for their pets. The pet owner’s annual income did not make a difference in their answers: those earning $50,000 per year answered similarly to those earning more.

Furthermore, the industry is developing more and more high quality options, which naturally are more costly. Nowadays, organic cat and dog food supplies can be found at the supermarket and alternative healthcare for your pet is easily accessible. Veterinarians

“Organic cat and dog food supplies can easily be found at the supermarket.” are able to offer more and more treatments, from weight loss therapy to laser treatments for cancer or hair growth. Thanks to the better care, our animals can also live longer, meaning they need to be taken care of for longer. But who in the world would have

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Theme their pet euthanized because of expensive vet bills? You could just cut on your Postcode Loterij membership, or your €15 Amnesty International yearly contribution, right? Development and humanitarian aid do not seem to have undertaken the same growth as pet care. In 2011, the Dutch government decided to cut on development aid. At that time, the Netherlands was one of the few countries in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)

resulting in a decrease of almost 4% in donations to humanitarian associations in 2015. This meant a total difference of around €9 million compared to the previous year. People’s attitudes towards charities also shifted. The different organizations, large and small, local and international, all lost part of their volunteers and participating members in the last few years. That couple of spare hours each month seems to be needed somewhere else nowadays.

“Who in the world would have their beloved pet euthanized because of expensive vet bills?” to have regularly invested the agreed 0.8% of GPD in development projects. On average, the 35 member countries invested less than 0.3% per year in the last decade. In other words: the Dutch were donating less than €300 per person per year to help needy countries around the world, and decided to cut on that when money fell short during the recession. And that was already much more than most other countries (!). Individual households have shown similar tendencies. More and more people have decided to put their donations on hold in the last years, or reduced their contributions,

Clearly, at some level, the wellbeing of our pets is prioritized over the wellbeing of our fellow humans. Of course, the current analysis is limited and does not consider important aspects of development aid. For instance, development aid has a history of supporting corruption and undermining democracies in developing countries. Yet, the disproportion in emotional involvement between our furry friends and some unknown starving kid somewhere far away, is an existing phenomenon and something we might want to take into consideration when choosing how to spend that extra money every year.

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The Day I Became an Other Story: Auke Pols, staff Philosophy and Ethics. Illustrations: Ashly Berghuizen

The village where I was supposed to do my internship was as messy as India’s big cities. A sweltering heat, yellow dust everywhere, shit plastered to the walls and brittle, discoloured plastic waste in the gutters. I had expected the Indians to be enlightened – wasn’t this where that fat guy Buddha came from? Most of the men here were just loitering and listening to some Indian mumbo-jumbo squawked by a suspiciously expensive-looking smartphone. I didn’t see any girls – they were probably all locked up inside. It was good that men like me were here to help them get some decent lighting to do their homework by.

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“Sorry, I’m late!” Damini, who would supervise my internship at the local energy company, came out of a house. Now there was a sight for sore eyes! Swaying hips accentuated by a bright flowery dress, dark eyes like coffee beans against a smooth skin the colour of milk chocolate and probably just as tasty... I beamed a radiant smile, vowing that I would have her before my three months here were over. “Hi! I’ve come from the Netherlands to help you develop.” Damini stopped and frowned at me. “This will not do.” She snapped her fingers and I became an Other.

The human froze like a statue, staring at the world with big, wet eyes. Then it screamed before bolting for the forest at the edge of the village. Young boys and girls looked up as the human ran past. Some ran after it, screaming along in delight. Sharp commands from their parents brought them back, giggling. The parents had seen this sort of thing before. The problem wasn’t that the human had become an Other. The problem was that you couldn’t be an Other and your Self at the same time. Not being your Self was painful, the more so for those who thought their Self was the best thing in the world, and all Others existed merely to serve it. The human ran through the woods, howling. It was terrified and confused to its bones. When it had been a Self, it had been full of emotional confirmations telling it what was pleasurable and what painful, what was great and what was stupid. The Other had no such reactions, and that

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drove it crazy. It remembered that woods could be dangerous, and they could be pleasant, but it had no idea what kind of wood this was. Only once, when it saw a fat brown snake, did age-old instincts kick in and make the human flee. Otherwise, it knew that threats lurked in the woods, but it did not know what to watch out for. So it ran on, desperately trying to escape its Otherness and find its Self again. At dusk it found its way back to the village. It was tired, covered in sweat and dust, its clothing torn and its skin scratched and bleeding. Despite its exhaustion, the strong sexual attraction it had felt earlier today returned. However, it had no idea to whom the attraction was, or should be, directed. It had regarded the prospect of sex with some humans as desirable; with some others as weird and vaguely threatening; with yet others abhorrent and monstrous. Without any emotional clue as to which humans it should be attracted to, it chose to do nothing. It only bared its teeth in a smile it hoped was subservient and friendly.

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Short Story The villagers accepted it back as a matter of course. One presented a white plastic chair, on which it sank down gingerly. Another offered it a cup of water, from which it drank. It felt a little better and relaxed. The happy feeling lasted perhaps half an hour. Then, its intestines, softened by Dutch drinking water purification systems, were assaulted by micro-organisms too numerous to count. The villagers, recognising its pained face and bent posture, guided it to a hole in the ground over which it squatted unhappily most of the night. At least its confusing sexual feelings were gone.

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Between stomach cramps, the human dozed fitfully. In its dreams it was walking the streets of Old Delhi, squeezing through the masses, breathing heavy diesel fumes and hearing constant honking and shouting – except it wasn’t Old Delhi but the centre of Amsterdam. It was eating mushy green food, some bites tasting richly of smoked sausage, rye bread and bacon, others of glorious amounts of curry and turmeric. It attended a funeral service, gentle words, soft crying, ashes spread over a river to be taken out to sea and scattered across the world. It didn’t once feel sorrowful or happy, content or disgusted; just confused. At last, its cramps subsided and the Other sank into a dreamless sleep.

I woke to bright dawn light. The smell of curry in the early morning made my empty stomach turn. I staggered up on weak legs from an old mattress, damp with my own sweat. My mouth was dry. I was still in the village where I was supposed to do my fieldwork. I remembered little from yesterday, except that I had been violently ill. The villagers had set my pack next to my mattress. I rummaged in it and found half a bottle of water. I drank deeply: it tasted deliciously neutral. Feeling somewhat better, I stepped outside in the morning sun. I looked at the dried manure stuck to the walls and the men listening to a news or sports broadcast on a smartphone. The village looked different in the morning, but I couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Then, my eyes caught Damini striding towards me, her floral dress still contrasting nicely with her brown skin. “Good morning,” she said. “do you feel better today?”

I nodded. “I... think I do.” Suddenly I remembered my reason for coming here. Tired though I was, I managed a smile. “I heard you were interested in our work on lighting kits. Could you tell me what you need?”

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Ontwikkelingsland Weken heb ik in mijn hoofd lopen malen over dit Intermania thema. 1) Moest het echt gaan over ontwikkelingslanden, en de manier waarop langs de weg van het recht wordt geprobeerd de ongelijkheid te verminderen? 2) Moest het gaan over de manier waarop Nederland langzaam een ontwikkelingsland wordt? 3) Moest het gaan over die disciplines die binnen Innovation Sciences (IS) als een ‘ontwikkelingsland’ dienden te worden gezien? Ad 1) Binnen IS houdt alleen de groep medewerkers en studenten rondom Henny Romijn zich nog echt bezig met ontwikkelingslanden, in een context van energie en duurzaamheid. Ad 2) NL is en ontwikkelingsland aan het worden, waar het ons (basis)onderwijs betreft volgens de PISA index en wiskunde, met in 2006 een score van 530 punten (3e op de lijst), via 526 in 2009, 523 in 2013 naar 512 in 2015 (10e plaats). En dan vindt Nederland het PISA onderzoek kennelijk niet belangrijk want de ‘response rate was too low to ensure comparability’. Ook op een heel ander terrein blijkt de teloorgang van de instituties, onze rechtsstaat: staatssecretaris Teeven wilde strengere straffen door het invoeren van minimumstraffen. Coalitiegenoot PvdA wilde daar niet aan. Dus besloot Teeven om te bezuinigen op advocaten, want als de werkdruk daar te hoog wordt, kunnen zij hun werk niet goed doen en krijgen verdachten vanzelf hogere straffen. Ad 3) IS wordt een ‘ontwikkelingsland’ wanneer per 1-11-2017 de leerstoel Recht & Techniek met mijn pensioen zal verdwijnen. En daarmee verdwijnen 0EM300 en 0ZK00, zijn er geen juridische bijdragen meer aan de USE-leerlijn Patents, Design Rights, and Standards, en geen juridische inbreng meer bij coherente vakkenpakket Information Security in Society. Daarnaast is met het recente ontslag van E.P. Mol is ook niet langer meer juridische bouwkundige en duurzaamheidskennis aanwezig. En dan te beseffen dat het uiteindelijk de wettelijke (subsidie en fiscale regels zijn ook wetten) regels zullen zijn die het tempo van innovatie, ondernemerschap, opleggen van CO2-reductie, aansprakelijkheid en robots, de grenzen aan Big Data gebruik, privacy zullen stellen. Maar aan de TU/e zal die kennis dan niet meer aanwezig zijn. July 2017

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The Hypocrisy of Responsible Development From the high chair of economic prosperity and welfare, developed countries are asking developing countries to stick to their sustainability standars. Hugo and Noël illustrate the hypocrisy of these expectations. Text: Hugo Bezombes and Noël Coenraad; Illustration: Ashly Berghuizen

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The past couple of days have brought an interesting twist to this article with the United States under President Trump feeling that the rest of the world is being hypocritical and abusive towards them under the terms of COP21. The fact that the economically developed countries would have to bear the burden of CO2 emission reductions was ridiculed and any attempt at controlling emissions was derided as breaks on the American industry. This unfortunately fails to notice the realities of the situation: Countries that have emitted the most in the past and have benefitted from these emissions are now asking developing countries to control their emissions and thus limit their economic growth by excluding these easy forms of energy from their development pathway.

“On the one hand the need for development in these countries and on the other the environment...”

So it would be fair to let developing countries use resources as they please, however, there are not enough resources to develop every country in the manner that the global north did. The world cannot deal with another country developing like China. So, developed countries only support responsible

development. Instead of answering to the consequences of irresponsible development and striving towards a sustainable society, developed countries have for the most part curbed developing countries and restricted them with regulations which they themselves are in no state to comply with.

“Constraints may stop these countries from developing... ” While it is arguably necessary to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, these constraints may stop these countries from developing economically and thus giving decent living conditions to their citizens. For example, China is a big polluter but its economic, albeit polluting, development has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Considering the benefits of polluting and the access to the cheap sources of energy that it entails, we can see the duality of this problem: on the one hand the need for development in these countries and on the other the environment. Thus it makes sense that there would be some form of subsidy to help countries develop “responsibly”. Its scale and scope are too limited under pledges made as part of the COP21. Indeed the plan to raise $100 billion per year after 2020 has so far recieved only pledges of $10 billion so far. Intermania

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The Rest of the World Cumulative Emissions: 8% Current Emissions: 7.5% Commitments: Fewer Increases Contributions: $0 Population: 5.2 billion

The United States of America Cumulative Emissions: 27% Current Emissions: 18% Reductions: None Contributions: $1 billion (under Obama) Population: 321 million

Russia Cumulative Emissions: 8% Current Emissions: 7.5% Reductions: 25% by 2030 Contributions: $0 Population: 144.1 million

China Cumulative Emissions: 11% Current Emissions: 20% Reductions: Emissions cap in 2030 Contributions: $0 Population: 1.3 billion

The European Union Cumulative Emissions: 25%

Current Emissions: 13.34% Reductions: 40% by 2030 Contributions: $4.6 billion Population: 510 million

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De Wereld Verbeteren in Amsterdam-Oost Stan en Wouter slaan geen waterputten. In plaats daarvan gingen ze aan de slag bij Partners for Innovation, en dragen ze bij aan het vervullen van de VN Sustainable Development Goals. Tekst: Stan van den Broek, oud-IS'er & Wouter Kersten, oud-SI’er

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Hoe verbeter je de wereld? Waar begin je, voor wie doe je dat, en wat wil je uiteindelijk bereiken? De één doet dat door een oudere dame over straat te helpen, de ander door zuinige en betaalbare kooktoestellen te ontwikkelen voor mensen in de armste gebieden in de wereld. In een poging om het begrip duurzame ontwikkeling (lees: wereldverbetering) een concrete invulling te geven, ontwikkelden de Verenigde Naties in 2015 de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), een vervolg op de Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). Waar de MDG’s voornamelijk gericht waren op ontwikkelingslanden, pogen de SDG’s globale samenwerking te creëren en duurzame ontwikkeling in zijn breedste vorm te omarmen. Volgens de VN staan deze zeventien doelen gelijk aan een duurzame samenleving.

De centrale vraag is dus hoe we nu precies moeten omgaan met die SDG’s, en kunnen bepalen of ze gehaald worden. Als je kijkt vanuit de bedrijfskant, is het interessant om te kijken hoe bedrijven een impact hebben op deze publieke doelen. Ondanks dat inmiddels al aardig wat bedrijven de SDG’s als leidraad gebruiken voor hun bedrijfsstrategie, zijn er nog maar heel weinig bedrijven die kunnen vertellen wat ze daadwerkelijk hebben bijgedragen aan de duurzame ontwikkeling van onze maatschappij – althans, zoals de VN het begrip definieert. Dit is ook niet eenvoudig, want hoe kan men de impact van private projecten uitdrukken in termen van de SDG’s? Zijn er absolute of relatieve indicatoren nodig, globale of lokale? Dat is wat Wouter nu aan het onderzoeken is tijdens zijn stage voor Partners for Innovation (PfI), een gespecialiseerd consultantbureau dat zich onder andere richt

Ondanks dat de SDG’s volgens velen een grote verbetering zijn, is er voor het behalen ervan nog geen simpele IKEA-handleiding. De doelen zijn namelijk niet altijd complementair en bieden weinig handvatten voor concrete maatregelen. Hoe zorg je bijvoorbeeld voor universele toegang tot energie (doel 7), zonder het klimaat te schaden (doel 13) en grondstoffenschaarste te voorkomen (doel 12)? Dit zijn ingewikkelde problemen, die vragen om systeemoplossingen – hallo innovatiewetenschappen!

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Werkende op circulaire productoplossingen voor de Nederlandse maakindustrie en duurzame energievraagstukken in sub-Sahara Afrika. Met twaalf man sterk in Amsterdam en vijf in Niger, zijn we eigenlijk maar met een vrij kleine club. Desondanks zorgt de diversiteit van onze werkzaamheden er wel voor dat we bij opvallend veel verschillende SDG’s een directe rol kunnen spelen. In Afrika draagt PfI bij aan SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) door bijvoorbeeld te onderzoeken hoe Nederlandse bedrijven de duurzame energiemarkt in Zimbabwe verder zouden kunnen helpen. Tegelijkertijd zijn we ook bezig met het binnenhalen van een opdracht om de kansen voor vrouwen in West-Afrikaanse energiemarkten te bevorderen, door lokale beleidsmakers en energieorganisaties op dit onderwerp te trainen en begeleiden (SDG 5: gender equality).

“Er is voor het behalen ervan nog geen simpele IKEA-handleiding.” Het werk van PfI op de Nederlandse markt speelt weer een andere rol. Hier werken we voor grote bedrijven als DAF, Vanderlande en SUEZ om samen met hun leveranciers, afnemers en andere betrokkenen op zoek te gaan naar manieren om hun productieprocessen zo op elkaar af te stemmen dat er voor iedereen zowel milieutechnisch als financieel verbeteringen worden gevonden. SDG’s 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure) en 12 (responsible production and consumption) zijn hier de twee doelen waar we de meest directe impact op hebben. Soms gaat dit om het doen van een levenscyclusanalyse (LCA), soms om het vinden van een beter ontwerp van eindproducten, zoals een medische July 2017

afvalcontainer van gerecycled plastic, en soms simpelweg om het samenbrengen van de juiste partijen. Zo begeleidt PfI de Hogeschool van Amsterdam om samen met de Johan Cruijff ArenA een goede recycleof hergebruikbestemming te vinden voor de plastic stadionstoelen. Leuk natuurlijk, allemaal die projecten, maar wat doen oud-TIW’ers nu eigenlijk? Stan werkt sinds november vorig jaar bij PfI, en Wouter loopt er sinds een maand stage. Als je werkt voor een bedrijf als PfI is het belangrijk om gemakkelijk van perspectief te kunnen wisselen, en te schakelen tussen projecten die verschillend zijn qua zowel thematiek als werkzaamheid. Het ene moment ben je bedrijven telefonisch aan het interviewen over hun interesse in de Zimbabwaanse energiemarkt, en het volgende moment ben je projectvoorstellen aan het schrijven voor het opzetten van internationale pilots rondom duurzame bezorging van boodschappen. Echter, het belangrijkste onderdeel van het vinden van een baan is simpelweg dat je een bedrijf kiest waar de sfeer en de mensen je aanspreken, en het totaalplaatje in lijn ligt met je gevoel. Want een goede omgeving geeft je veel energie, en die heb je natuurlijk nodig als je wereldproblemen op gaat lossen! 37

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Research in a Developing Country: Doing research in a developing country often asks for a different approach than doing research in a developed country. Britte provides some do’s and don’ts according to her own experiences in Indonesia.

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From April to July, I am conducting research in Indonesia to complete my master program Innovation Sciences. And, although Indonesia is not (in my opinion) a ‘true’ developing country, performing research here still asks for a very different approach compared to conducting research in Eindhoven. Not necessarily based on the fact of whether a country could or should be specified as a ‘developing’ country or not, but because things just work differently here. Not only due to religious beliefs, but their whole culture is different. The most basic example of this is the way people communicate with each other, compared to how we are used to doing that. Our Western way of communicating, or as we like to call it in Dutch: the ‘Rechtoe, rechtaan’ approach, is actually often found somewhat rude in foreign countries. Keep that in mind. For all of you who are planning to conduct research in another country than the Netherlands, try to prepare yourself. Read some stuff, and by that I don’t mean only reading the Lonely Planet of your destination. Do you know people who already went to that country? Talk to them! This way you can get access to first-hand experience, and what more could a traveler ever wish for? In case none of your friends can help you, I have prepared this essential list, consisting of some trivial, but basic tips which might help you during this process, based to my own experiences.

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• Better not think that your ‘Western’ attitude will get you very far. People, especially living in more ‘relaxed’ cultures

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Text: Britte Bouchaut, IS student

and environments, will only think you’re annoying and will most likely just ignore you rather than try to help you out. Learn by observing the first couple of weeks. How do people communicate, how do they make appointments, or how do they work together. This may look obvious, but it really helps you in ultimately obtaining what you want, and will prevent a lot of frustration. • Don’t expect that the interviews you conduct with local villagers will deliver you the same amount of information as they would do at home. Often, you have to work with a local translator leading to a lot of information getting lost, or at least some biases. Take this into account while working with the gathered data. Don’t expect people to sacrifice • their entire afternoon for you. If you show up at a household unannounced for an interview, be satisfied with half an hour, or maximum an hour of their time. Also, don’t overdo it. • Don’t say yes to everything, especially when you are conducting your research at a company. Sure you can help them out where you can, but don’t forget that you are primarily there for your own research, not to handle their overdue administration. • Don’t hold on too hard to your own research, and the methodology you already thought of beforehand. Actually being there is very different than when you were thinking of your research when you were still at home. Your own development process is dynamic, shouldn’t your research be too? Breath, be flexible about it, and don’t be afraid to change your approach. Intermania

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• Before you start gathering your data at your destination, spend some time researching about the local culture and religion, and how these aspects affects people’s beliefs and lifestyle. This will prevent you from accidentally plunging in at somebody’s house when it is actually not appropriate. Wear appropriate clothing when • you are conducting fieldwork. You are not a tourist, so only wearing a bikini can lead to some false starts now and then. Ask locals several times, they will help you understand what is appropriate and not. Bring lots of books, or other things • to entertain yourself. It is almost common knowledge that when being for a longer period in a very different culture, you could start feeling lonesome. Although you will always run into someone who speaks English, it is a challenge to take these conversations beyond small talk. Accept that you’re checking into • social rehab, whether you like it or not. Try to think of this in a more positive way, maybe this is your chance to pick up where you left on your knitting course, or to discover the poet that has always been inside of you. • Ask people everything you want! Really, most of the time they will only like it and come up with some interesting stories But, don’t be rude, always do it with a smile. Although this may sound as a somewhat lighthearted story, everybody experiences this differently. For me, especially in the beginning, I had a bumpy ride with the necessary social rehab symptoms. But, after being here for two months you start seeing your own progress, how you adapted your behaviour and how that worked out. But maybe more importantly, you have gotten to know yourself a little bit better, which is also worth something.

July 2017

Hitchhiking

Warzone Hitchhiking Former Intermania member Lars has taken hitchhiking to a whole new level by going to Nagorno-Karabakh (a disputed republic in Azerbaijan) and Iraqi Kurdistan in times of conflict. All to prove that the world is much safer than what we imagine it to be. Here is his story. Text and Images: Lars König, hitchhiking guru and former TIW student

Nagrono-Karabakh, which is under effective control of Armenia since a war in 1995, but internationally is recognized as part of Azerbaijan. In April 2016, the Azari army tried to retake the republic by force, starting a war which lasted for four days and claimed over one hundred lives on both sides. The Dutch ‘reisadvies’ considers the entire republic as a NO GO area because war could erupt at any moment (which almost happened just four months after I visited). So what better time than visiting this wonderful place than now?

Last September, I took four months off from work to continue a trip I started three years ago when I hitchhiked to Tbilisi, Georgia. When hitchhiking through Armenia I decided to cross over to a republic called

Entering the republic is only possible from Armenia and I tried my luck from the city of Goris. Before starting I checked Google Maps for the name of the capital of the republic which was called Stepanakert, though I found

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My hitchhiking adventures started with the Intermate hitchhike competition to CarsacAlliac in 2010 and has ever since become a hobby which got (slightly) out of hand. At the moment I have hitchhiked over 55.000 kilometres through 38 countries, wrote a guide on hitchhiking and am the chairman of the foundation ‘Stichting NederlandLift’ which promotes hitchhiking in the Netherlands. During my travels, I learned that you can find good people everywhere you go and that trusting a stranger can lead to beautiful surprises.

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Hitchhiking a weirdly spelled name stating “Xankəndi”. Naïve as I was, I wrote this name on my sign and started hitchhiking. Cars honked at me, but nobody seemed to stop, until a big car with tinted windows pulled over and a man got out. He asked me what my sign was saying, to which I replied “Stepanakert”. He told me that wasn’t the case and invited me into his car. Ruben, as he was called, is the Human Right’s defender of Artsakh (as the Armenians call the republic) and a member of the Armenian Parliament. He explained to me that Xankəndi is the Azari name of Stepanakert and that it was a miracle that I wasn’t attacked because it is considered a huge offense to call the city like that. Ruben also explained that the war of April was a result of a shift in rhetoric in Baku. The current president of Azerbaijan made it his election promise to retake Artsakh. The

“What better time to visit Iraq than during the siege of Mosul?” republic is home to the city of Şuşa which is considered the cultural origin of Azerbaijan. About 80 percent of the city still lays in ruins, as the result of the war in 1995. I was surprised when Ruben told me that he felt sorry for the Azari president, for “he is a prisoner of his own rhetoric”. He can’t retake Artsakh as it would become a military and humanitarian disaster, but he also cannot not attack Artsakh for that is the source of his political legitimacy. In everything, I could feel that Artsakh is poor in wealth, but rich in heart. Everywhere people smiled at me and I got discounts in souvenir shops because I was considered to be a guest. I happened to be there during a national wine festival held at the destroyed July 2017

palace of Togh. I saw so many people having genuine joy that I completely forgot that I was less than 100 kilometres away from the closest Azari army unit ready to invade whenever they would get the greenlight from Baku. In everything, I actually felt rather safe as people showed they wanted to take care of me and were honoured by my visit, for most of the world seemed to have forgotten about them. Ruben explained that Artsakh is safe, for it is clear who the enemy is. He told me that this isn’t the case in Western Europe, making life there more complicated for you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. After my experiences in Artsakh I continued my journey to Iran where I got into contact with people who recommended me to see the Kurdish parts of the Middle East. After visiting the Kuridish areas in Iran I decided to make my way to the areas that lie in modern 41

Hitchhiking day Iraq. And what better time to visit Iraq than during the siege of Mosul and a day after one of the biggest ISIS counterattacks on the city of Kirkuk? The area I entered was the autonomous republic of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is much safer than most parts of the country. Having their own government, army, laws and border controls, I could get a free 30 days visa on arrival with my EU passport. I obviously was greeted with some suspicion by the border police, but once they discovered my heart was in the right place, their suspicion turned into a warm welcome. The first ride I got from the border was a free taxi ride to a city called Kalar. I arrived there in the afternoon and was a bit hungry. But no worries, a man pulled over and invited me for a family lunch, I couldn’t say no to that! After lunch, he brought me back to the road where a few guys were asking me what I was doing. I explained I was travelling without money on which they pulled over another taxi and convinced the driver to take me for free. The taxi driver took me to a military checkpoint where Peshmerga troops started questioning me, but when I told them I was hitchhiking, their questioning turned into laughter and before I knew it we were making selfies. They stopped a nice-looking car and ordered the driver to take me to Sulaymaniyah, a lively metropolis at the foot of the Kurdish mountains. The driver was a lawyer coming from Baghdad and he was very enthusiastic about the fact that I decided to visit Iraqi Kurdistan. He stopped multiple times next to the road so I could make some nice pictures of the mountains. In Sulaymaniyah I used couchsurfing.com (a site to sleep on somebody’s couch for free) and stayed with a guy who worked with IDP’s (Internally Displaced Persons). He took me to a refugee camp just outside of Kirkuk to help paint a nursery for refugee children. After Sulaymaniyah I hitchhiked to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan only 60

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kilometres away from the frontline at Mosul. Again, peshmergas were my friend, for I got picked up by two generals who ordered a taxi driver to take me for free to Kirkuk. After some miscommunication, I ended up in the city centre where a week before fighting took place between ISIS fighters and the Kurdish army, though luckily I got a ride to Erbil soon after.

“... the idea that life is horrible and dangerous everywhere is complete nonsense!” In Erbil, again I was surprised to see how normal life was. People went to the markets, shopping malls, went out and enjoyed their time. The only thing reminding me of war was the constant presence of military personal on the streets and the news reports on TV on the progress of the siege on Mosul. However, people were extremely welcome and didn’t show any fear. I was invited into people their homes, was offered food by complete strangers and I generally felt very safe. I will not deny that there are very unsafe regions in Iraq, but the idea that life is horrible and dangerous everywhere is complete nonsense! Crime rates are low and people from all walks of life are included: Yazidi, Christians and refugees are free to work and practice their traditions. Inspired by all this I made a short video and posted it on Facebook to find its view count reach 50,000 within only a week. It shows that this positive and true message needs to be heard more often. I also hope an article like this will help broaden your view on the world and not be led by fear when encountering strangers. Intermania

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Selfish Development Development has a broad sense of meaning to it, with growth and advantageous stages as its descriptive key terms. Development also has many dimensions. A person can develop oneself in an infinitive number of ways with numerous skills and knowledge to acquire, where each skill and knowledge topic has endless stages of improvements or viewpoints. Personal development is what makes humans distinct. Our consciousness demands ourselves to selfactualize, as Maslow formulates this highest need in life. One needs a self-image of competence and autonomy. At first sight this seems an innocent and desired life value, but Maslow also mentions the room for limitless development. And as improved well-being is considered to be development as well, this is not a need without side effects; especially in an individualistic and capitalistic environment. In a broader scope, countries can strive for this same type of development by improving the well-being of their population. Capitalism in combination with our endless collective need to improve, but also the relativity of our satisfaction makes this development go hand in hand with grim side effect: development at the cost of other countries and therefore other people. Prominent examples are the problematic climate change and exploiting the labor force in underdeveloped countries. Desertification makes people starve and creates another incentive for those considering migrating to more fortunate, timid climate countries. While at the same time children deep down in mines scrape the metal resources to satisfy our technological needs. These facts should give the ones able to selfactualize and consume at the cost of others a bad conscience, including yours truly. Luckily development isn’t inherently bad. As soon as the focus changes towards CO2-neutral lifestyles, human rights or more satisfying ideals about well-being, the means to our end of wellbeing lose their bad connotations. Think of technical developments like artificial meat, renewable energy sources and electric cars. These alternatives do not conflict with wellbeing across the world, and ensure that more people will have the chance to acquire the living standard to move their concerns up to the highest level in the Maslow hierarchy of needs. July 2017

“Luckily development isn’t inherently bad” –Hub

Intermania Dives Deep

Are We Ever Done Developing? Development is typically considered a virtuous characteristic of a country, society or person. Teachers push you to keep developing your skills. Politicians push for legislation that promotes development in any way, shape or form. Some argue that simple skills can be perfected, however, is one expected to continue developing that skill? It seems that the very definition of development is open to interpretation. That is why for this edition on development, the Intermania will dive into the deep and answer the urgent questions. What is the definition of development? Also, are we ever done developing? To answer them, we asked around the IPO building.

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Text: Noël Coenraad, editorial staff

“Development can be anything as long as it is a process, rather than a state or event and it needs to involve becoming a better x, for whatever x might be. Furthermore I think it can be an internal mechanism.” – Philip Nickel, assistant professor Philosophy & Ethics

“Development is the incremental increase in knowledge, which you can achieve by learning, experiencing and practicing of new subjects.” – Sjoerd Pernot

What is the definition of development?

“To me, development is about making steps to improve the quality of life now and for the future, preferably for those who need it most. If a Jacuzzi in every house makes everyone less stressed and more content about their lives, then that can be development. However, if all the energy use accompanying these Jacuzzis turns out to cause the really big, salty ‘Jacuzzi’ to keep rising and breaking our dams, then perhaps it was not development after all.” – Frank Vendrig Intermania

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“I think a person is done developing when there is no further possibility for them to become a better x, given the resources available. Hopefully, the possibilities are still limitless.” – Philip Nickel, assistant professor Philosophy & Ethics

Are we ever done developing?

“I think the only way to reach an end point for development is to actually believe you have reached it. At that point you will stop trying to develop yourself because you believe that’s it. As long as you believe there still is developing to be done, you can continue to work on yourself in whatever way you like.” – Marit Loonen

“I’d say that we are not. However, we have to debate whether all inventions equal steps forward in the development of human beings, instead of backward.” – Pam Philippens

So, what do we make of this? Thus development – according to our panel – is a process in which you increasingly get better at something. And under that definition the majority thought that there is always a way to continue developing as long as you see opportunities to do so. However, this did come with the warning that even though you developed it does not necessarily mean that it was good. There are lots of developments which ultimately have done more harm than good. Do you agree with this conclusion? How would you answer these questions? Tell your friendly Intermate members! July 2017

TIW Cribs

Huize RIC Elk studentenhuis vertelt een eigen verhaal. Daarom nemen we graag een kijkje in het natuurlijke habitat van onze Intermate-medemens. We kloppen deze keer aan bij Huize RIC. Tekst & Beeld: Frank Vendrig, redactie

In de wijk Burghplan, Stratum – een van de Daffy Duck. Door de grote letters weet je vele banlieues buiten de Eindhovense ring ten eerste meteen dat je in het goede huis – ligt studentenhuis Rumor in Casa (ofwel bent aangekomen, en ten tweede voel je Huize RIC). Hier wonen Colin, Marit en Pam, je in het fietsenhok al thuis. Dit laatste is met nog vijf anderen. Het eerste dat opvalt, overigens niet geheel nodig. De huisgenoten is de aangename doch penetrante geur van maken het elkaar lastig om zich hier niet shisha. Deze is afkomstig van de onderburen, thuis te voelen. waar een shishabar trouw dienst draait. Op Ten eerste is er elke maand de huisavond. de vraag of geurenblindheid hier intussen De huisgenootjes spelen spelletjes, drinken al op van toepassing is, wordt fel “Nee!” cocktails, doen een escape room of kijken gereageerd. Wel verdwijnt op de termijn het een filmpje. Of ze spelen hamertje tik op idee dat de shisha-aroma’s Freek Sjtronk. Dit is een op wat voor manier dan ook spelletje waar de spelers zo aangenaam zouden zijn. snel mogelijk hun spijker in “Je voelt je in Zoals de naam al doet een boomstronk moeten vermoeden heeft dit huis een slaan, maar pijnlijk worden het fietsenhok verleden in de hogere sferen geconfronteerd met hun van het studentenleven. Dit alcoholpromillage. De naam al thuis.” stulpje was voorheen een van dit spelletje stamt af van SSRE-huis. Dit is nu alleen zowel de gedeelde fascinatie nog te zien aan de vele SSRE-stickers die her voor Freek Vonk – overal waar je komt staart en der nog prominent aanwezig zijn, en een er wel een Freek Vonk in jouw richting – als oude, ingelijste foto met bovengemiddeld het onvermogen van Limburgse huisgenoot bretelsgehalte. De afgelopen jaren is het huis Tom om het woord ‘stronk’ uit te spreken. helemaal verplebst, maar het is wel duidelijk Mocht dit de sfeer niet doen opwarmen, waarom het oog van onze SSRE-medemens dan is er nog de huize RIC-trui. Ook is er op het pand gevallen is. Naast de acht kamers, naast de huisavond elk jaar een kerstdiner, biedt het huis een gezellige woonkamer, waar oud-huisgenoten ook nog één keer keuken, een riant dakterras, twee wc’s mogen langskomen. Omdat het dakterras betegeld is, waardoor en een douche. Volgens Google Translate betekent Rumor er niet echt een gezellig groene tuin is, heeft vooral Colin zich ontfermd over het zorgen in Casa zoveel als “Gerucht in een hut”. voor een stel Albert Heijn-moestuintjes. Daarom laten we het Latijn even voor wat Er moet gezegd worden dat ze er groen en het is. Interessanter is het grote graffitiwerk gezond uit zien. Vooral de peterselie trekt in het fietsenhok op de benedenverdieping. de aandacht, maar eigenlijk zet alle flora de De grote letters die RIC vormen worden puntjes op i de van de inrichting. hier vergezeld door een mooi prentje van 46

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TIW Cribs De huisgenoten hebben een ‘goede’ relatie met de huisbaas. Waar andere huisbazen vaak laks en inattent zijn, is deze juist overenthousiast. Je hoeft het niet te vragen of hij ruimt je rommel voor je op. Zelfs wanneer er in grote letters ‘niet weghalen’ op staat. Zo biedt de huisbaas een stuk meer dan alleen

een plekje om te wonen. Hij leert je zelfs om minder materialistisch in het leven te staan! Al met al is huize RIC een studentenhuis met geschiedenis, levenslessen en sfeer. De Intermania raadt iedereen aan zich te bevrienden met Colin, Marit en/of Pam en zichzelf eens uit te nodigen.

“Overal waar je komt staart er wel een Freek Vonk in jouw richting..”

July 2017

AFExCie

Vamos a Barcelona! Get out the sangria and be ready to do the flamenco: this year’s AFExCie trip is going to Barcelona! Pam and Ellen will give you an exclusive peek in the tough process of selecting an AFExCie destination. Text: Ellen Mans and Pam Philippens, AFExCie

Many believe that Barcelona is the largest city in Spain. However, with 1.604.555 inhabitants, Barcelona is almost twince as small as Madrid, in terms of population. Famous for her busy beaches, the stunning Sagrada Familia and the tempting tapas, Barcelona is popular with city-trip lovers. Combine this with the tremendous amount of interesting companies, from multinationals to start-ups, and you have the perfect AFExCie destination. The process towards this final decision was a long and thorough one. Let us take you on our trip down memory lane: how did the AFExCie committee choose Barcelona?

“...we received an email that made us spontaneously dance the flamenco.”

There are several criteria for the perfect destination and we were sure that we thought about them all when we first picked our destination. However, after a huge setback that caused us to give up this destination, we had to start looking for a destination all over again. This time, we were planning on doing it better. First, the flight should not be too expensive and, preferably depart from Eindhoven Airport. Also, as all of us are extremely motivated students who wish to miss as few lectures as possible, we preferred to go from Wednesday till Sunday. As soon as we noted that this was not a problem for Barcelona, we had a green light to dig a little deeper into the exploration of this destination. So, we took the next step: is the city large enough to have interesting companies that we could possibly visit? Is there a university? A Dutch embassy or consulate? After all, this was going to be an excursion and not a shopping trip. It is of high importance that the AFExCie reaches out to an innovative city that has something to offer in terms of education and business.

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The perfect AFExCie destination The perfect destination for an unforgettable AFExCie trip has to meet these requirements: • • • • • • •

Affordable flight prices Preferred flight dates Interesting options for visits Affordable hostel Practical public transport Interesting (cultural) activities Not recently visited by the AFExCie

After our External Affairs men realized the large amount of possible visits, it was time to get serious. Without a reasonably priced hostel, Barcelona would simply be off-limits, as we are all chronically broke students. So, we started emailing hostels. A lot of hostels. At first, they all sent us ridiculous quotations

with ridiculous prices, which made us doubt whether we would be able to find a suitable destination at all this year. Then, suddenly, we received an email that made us spontaneously dance the flamenco in the meeting (okay, not really, but we all wanted to on the inside). Hostel? Check. Next, we had to think about aspects such as the public transport and the (cultural) activities. We did some serious research and also on this area, we witnessed no massive bumps on the road to Barcelona. After checking all criteria and finalizing the budget, it was finally certain: in November, we are heading to the capital of Spain’s Catalonia! The exact ins and outs of the activity will not be shared yet, but we will make sure that it is going to be a fantastic trip that you do not want to miss! In the meantime, the AFExCie committee will continue dreaming about those beautiful beaches, the sleek Sagrada Familia and the tasty tapas.

“...in November, we are heading to the capital of Spain’s Catalonia!”

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Puzzle

Puzzles! What would a big summer edition be without extra puzzles? Exactly, a bit sad. Therefore, Marit provides you with some extra puzzles to make it through the summer. Enjoy and good luck! Puzzles: Marit Loonen, editorial staff and puzzle lover

Logiquiz After finishing their board year, Delphi realized that they spent almost all their money on beer! To earn some money to relax during this summer, they decided to get a summer job at the local zoo. But, who cleans what cage, of what animal and on what day? Clues: 1. The giraffe cage is cleaned on Wednesday. The number of the cage is one lower than the cage that is being cleaned by Joris. 2. Cage 14, that is being cleaned on Monday, is not the giant panda cage. The giant pandas are in cage 13. 3. Laura cleans her cage on Tuesday, but it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cage 11. 4. Anke cleans the monkey cage earlier in the week than Roxanne cleans the snake cage. 5. The snake cage has a higher number than the monkey cage. 6. The lion cage has a higher number than the cage that is being cleaned by Pieter, but a lower number than the cage that is being cleaned on Friday.

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Quizseeker The answers on the questions can be found in the wordseeker. When every word has been found, the remaining letters will form an inspriring Libanese proverb.

1. Hottest inhibited place on earth, with an annual mean temperature of 34.4 °C (6) 2. Place where the highest ground temperature ever was measured (5, 6) 3. Artist of Summer of ‘69 (5, 5) 4. Album on which Ice ice baby appeared (2, 3, 7) 5. Temperature measured in question 2, in degrees Celsius (6, 4) 6. The summer starts in this month (4) 7. Dutch alternative music festival that takes place in August (8) 8. Flavor of the red part of a raketje (9) 9. Most popular Ben & Jerry’s flavor (4, 5) 10. Natural swimming area in Eindhoven (7, 3) 11. Day with the most sunlight per year = Summer ... (8) 12. City that will host the Summer Olympics of 2020 (5) 13. Artist of When Summer ends (3, 6) 14. Seaside resort on the Spanish Costa del Sol (10) 15. Sweet Spanish wine, often served with fruit (7) 16. Hills of loose sand built by wind or the flow of water (5) 17. Best song for a summer roadtrip (5,4) 18. Europian city where you can get the cheapest beer (5) 19. Here comes the … (3) 20. Greek island (3) 21. Spanish summer hit from 2002 (3, 7) 22. Animal as well as a cigarette brand (5) 23. Machine used to create airflow, often for cooling (3) 24. … si, … no. (3) SOLUTION: ______________________________________________________________________ July 2017

Freshmen

Humans of Intermate

We have all seen them crawling around the Internaat and while some of us only want to make sure that first years don’t win a foosball game, other Intermate members might honestly wonder what our beloved sjaarsjes have been up to over the past year. Being one of them, Timo was the perfect candidate to dive into the lives of his fellow sjaars. These first years were all willing to share their fondest freshman memories. Text: Timo van Helvoort, sjaars; Images: Manon van Hastenberg, editorial staff

Rob One night. One tournament. One opportunity to silence all the older years that had been calling him ‘Robje’, ‘klein’ and ‘kutsjaars’ all year. The poker trophy practically had Rob’s name on it already as he folded his way through the early games. “Let the others go YOLO and all-in their way out first”. With the idiots gone, Rob turned to the real players, but not even ‘Lucky Lisette’ stood a chance against this giant. In an action packed 1v1 final they both went all-in but the sjaars persevered. Rob showed his cards as he laughed, relieved. The Internaat cheered and on that day, with champagne in his hands, Rob was the tallest guy in the room. Ayda The annual hitchhiking weekend came upon us, another chance for the underrepresented sjaarzen to show their worth. As the day began Ayda and Allerd were stuck in Eindhoven for quite some time until they got a ride to Baden-Baden. Having done 70% of the way already they were wwell on their way, especially since some other couples were stuck in places like Bonn. After having won a drinking competition against Joohoost and Tony (disgraceful), they continued with a Romanian cleaning lady who had to pay 2k at the border patrol. When Ayda and Allerd eventually arrived they checked the reception; “Is anyone here already? No? Not yet?”, and thus once again the sjaarzen triumphed. 52

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Freshmen Bas Bas Gremmen is a frequently seen Intermate and Demos member. Two of the things he never expected to do while still in high school. Once upon a drunk evening at Demos, Bas decided to call it a night after having been bartending until 6 o’clock. However, just before reaching his house Bas saw a vision in the sky. A vision so bright, it had to be true. Bas reported; “The message was clear, the message was beer.” Immediately Bas knew he had to join one of Demos’ biggest fraternities: Diabolo, and so it happened. He still has to show he is worthy of this fraternity but knowing Bas, ‘every little thing, is gonna be alright’.

“The message was clear, the message was beer.” – Bas Gremmen Senna Senna, chair of the Parents Day committee, hardcore Harry Potter fangirl. As she claims herself, no single activity can fully describe her first year. With her Parents Day crew she set up an amazingly fun day for all the sjaars’ parents who enjoyed this very much. There are, however, more memorable moments in Senna’s past year, such as the Harry Potter cantus. Geared up with glasses, statement scar and Gryffindor socks she had an amazing and “somewhat emotional” cantus. But while all those things were great, she managed to fix the number of famous artist Jody Bernal via Instagram. Wouldn’t it be great to have such a big name in the Intro of 2017? Of course it would! That is why our superhero Senna used all of her charm and is now frequently calling with Jody, attempting to get him to sing during our introduction week. July 2017

Puzzel

In het Midden Puzzel: Colin de Bruin, redactie

Horizontaal 1. zijn Franse steden 6. politie bekogeld met stenen in _ 13. krijg je nog van mij 14. neemt vocht op voor de deur 16. mytisch kennisoverdrachtssysteem 18. bakkes 19. kun je plakjes weps mee maken 21. vogelverblijf 23. Slowaakse sausfabrikant 24. zogenaamd sustainable 28. Asian Institute of Technology 31. nee 32. Miami, _ 33. vogelverblijf 34. ga je in Amerika heen voor je rijbewijs 36. in _ forma 38. boon tevens hoofdstad 39. muhcteK hsA tgaard 40. tussen Epe en Olst 41. jongensnaam 43. schema 44. wees gegroet

Verticaal 1. ajuin 2. _,_,_ your boat 3. noodstop 4. is Trump een goed voorbeeld van 5. landcode van Nauru 6. vissensperma 7. meervoud van ik 8. _ cool J 9. “_ zo zwart als roet” 10. maat voor lichtondoorlatendheid 11. het onrechtmatig voortrekken van familie 12. _ P, dichter 15. dom mens 17. smaakloos en groen 20. ademprobleem 22. international labour rights forum 25. zelfhulpgroep 26. magertjes 27. landcode van Ecuador 29. past na bloemkool of mat 30. past voor winst of na berg 35. on y _! 37. fruit tevens jongensnaam 38. Bijbelse vrouw 40. teveel van het goede 41. past na ram of voor os 42. een oudere versie van Windows Intermania

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Freshman Committees

Our active freshmen have done their duty and have just organized the Parents Day, the SjaarCie activity and created this year's SmoBo. We asked the committee members how they've experienced their first committee. Text: Anke van Rietschoten, editoriall staff, in collaboration with the freshman committees

SmoBo

Once upon a time the SmoBo committee started as real princesses with their job to make the freshmen yearbook. During their adventure the committee found that not every problem is solved by a jar of honey (or in the case of the SmoBo, a piece of pie during the meetings). Winnie was looking for a book with all his pirate friends in it, so the committee decided to make a slam book (Dutch: vriendenboekje). They needed a lot of input from their friends, so they decided to ask them a lot of questions. Every freshman was spammed with emails with questions like: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Which one of the Cars do you feel resemblance with?â&#x20AC;? Later on, every freshmen took a picture, looking like the girls from K3. Which resulted in a lot of great material for the book. With a lot of responses and pictures the committee started with lay-outing. All their different groups of friends found each other in the book. In the end the committee

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finished the book as real superheroes just in time to sell it before the year ended.

Parents Day

The day started in the Zwarte Doos on campus, which was much harder than expected for some parents to find. After walking around a bit the parents of the committee members finally found their way. After a welcome with delicious Eurest coffee, the day began with a short presentation of 30 minutes from Wil. All the parents got a goodie bag full of AH Basic supplies to start a murder game with. The rector magnificus was murdered and all the parents together were going to solve the mystery. In order to find the killer, they saw all the ins and outs of the campus, and they got rewarded with a delicious lunch served by the TostCie. After lunch the different majors were separated so that the parents could learn something about actual studying. All the Psychology and Technology

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parents learned something about their child’s brain and the Sustainable Innovation parents witnessed a real-life case. During the classes some incidents took place (which were totally planned of course), and someone was ‘escorted’ out by the security because of his view on society. Afterwards the committee gave out some free beers during the pub quiz. Afterwards nearly all the parents took out their child to dinner, except the parents of the committee members of course. They first had to wait until they cleaned up the mess in the Internaat.

SjaarsCie

Last May, the SjaarsCie had a TV night for the freshmen of Intermate. The purpose of the evening depends on the person you ask. Several people demanded beer, while others just requested a nice time together.

The evening started with some hot chili, cooked by the KookCie. Accompanied by some cold beer, the freshmen could start with this promising night. The committee made different games that were based on different TV shows. The board contributed in a video to establish the smartest person of the evening. The freshmen discovered who was the mol through some ether discipline. Especially for the international students, it was very important that the freshmen had some knowledge about Holland, because some games from Ik hou van Holland were played as well. As real students, there were some Spuiten en Slikken games (of course without real drugs). With a lot of mayo and ketchup, some extreme Pictionary happened outside. Last but not least, without Lingo the evening was not complete. The evening finished with a nice drink.

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[V/Br]ouw Je Eigen Bier

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Op 8 september 2016 ging er een wereld voor je open. Je kunt het je nog herinneren, die eerste slok vol fruitige hoparomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s die als een engeltje over je tong piste. Om 18:00 verlieten de eerste Doutzens, potente pale ales en tevens de allereerste Pintermate-biertjes de Intermate-borrelkoelkast. Sindsdien heeft Pintermate hard gewerkt om jullie een jaar lang te voorzien van limited edition gerstenat. Natuurlijk zet dit het komende jaar door. Tekst & Beeld: Frank Vendrig, Pintermate

Helaas is het straks vakantie en zijn je bieropties tijdelijk beperkt. Om deze martelgang te overbruggen geven we jullie nu ook de mogelijkheid om je eigen bier maken. Volg de instructies en begin aan je creatie op de ommezijde van deze pagina. Stap 1 Kies je biersoort naar keuze. Houd hier rekening met het zomerzonnetje. Breakfast stout Naomi was genieten, maar zou waarschijnlijk wel een flinke mond vol zijn bij 30 graden Celsius. Stap 2 Kies een goede naam voor je brouwsel. Wij kiezen doorgaans de voornaam van een topmodel dat ons product belichaamt. Is jouw bier licht maar zuur, of juist stevig doch verleidelijk? Dit proces vereist dat je aanzienlijk veel tijd besteedt aan het beoordelen van topmodellen.

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Stap 3 Kies een kleur. Wanneer de dorstige horde de koelkast bestudeert is deze kleur het eerste dat in het oog springt. Stap 4 Nu je het type bier, de naam en de kleur hebt bepaald, is het tijd om je kleurpotloden of stiften te vergaren. Sla de pagina om om je eigen Pintermate-etiket en -dop te ontwerpen! Stap 5 Nu je de pagina hebt ingekleurd is het tijd om een schaar en lijm te verzamelen. Knip je beer to be uit en gebruik de plakranden, lijm, en het maximale van je knutselkunsten om er een mooi flesje van te creeĂŤren. Stap 6 Maak een foto van je creatie en stuur deze per email naar meesterbrouwer Paul de Hooge, en wie weet staat jouw biervisie straks wel bij de borrel in de koelkast!

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Sea of Broken Dreams

Opinion

In light of a discussion surrounding potentially commemorating refugees on May 4th, Arjan relates some people’s attitudes towards refugees to the attitudes that lead us into the wars we now commemorate on May 4th. Text: Arjan Derks, SI student

On the fourth of May, the Netherlands remembers the men and women who gave their lives for the ideals of freedom from tyranny, development of democracy and happiness of the population. They sacrificed their dreams, crossing the worlds’ wide blue oceans to meet their end at the beaches of Normandy, the forests of the Ardennes, the cities and villages in the Netherlands, the hills of Italy, the deserts of Africa. They passed away breaching fortress Europe. As as a result of their sacrifice, and the people honoring them, Europe has seen unparalleled prosperity and safety. During the most recent commemoration of May 4th, the mayor of Eindhoven highlighted the multicultural nature of ‘his’ city. He applauded the fact that there were over 130 nationalities present in his city. Eindhoven, being one of the most prosperous regions in the world in the safest continent, is a safe haven for the people in conflict areas and a land of opportunity for those in economically less developed

Drawing of a refugee child. July 2017

countries. These people, whether from Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Chad, Mali or anywhere else, hope to find safety and prosperity in our ‘land of dreams’. They dare to risk it all to get here, crossing dangerous sea lanes in barren conditions, with many perishing in the sea.

“Those who do not remember their history, are condemned to repeat it.” In Amsterdam, there were initiatives to commemorate these people; three thousand white paper crosses were to be placed on Dam square. Nevertheless, there was backlash, severe backlash. People felt infuriated that ‘our’ compatriots who died in combat and war were to be remembered at the same time as ‘them’. Needless to say, that did not happen. It is for ‘good’ reasons, I mean, we cannot please everyone, and they are not exactly our compatriots. Nevertheless, I think it is a missed opportunity. Later that evening, after the Thursday drink at Intermate, I walked and talked with a friend. We discussed the fourth of May, and how easily we forget its lessons on the fifth. We commemorate the fallen, for about an hour per year, whilst we celebrate our freedom in ‘relative’ ignorance for the rest of thWe year. But Those who do not remember their history, are condemned to repeat it. The build-up to 59

Opinion the same conflict that marked the start of the conflict for which we started commemorating May 4th seems to be all around us again. We are hostile to strangers, protective of our own interests and fail to understand what these people face in their home countries. Instead of open hearts, we propagate closed borders, as we want to keep ourselves safe from ‘the harm that they pose’. In our own country, we act as if these immigrants are ‘less Dutch’ and ‘a fifth column to foreign dictators’ if they also sympathize with their country of origin. Ironically, demands for freedom are denied if you do not think like the majority. And some politicians thrive on these views. There comes the mayor of Eindhoven again. In his speech, he addressed what a ‘black school’, with an unfavorable reputation among ‘white’ citizens does with its pupils. The school fostered inclusive teaching programs, with parents who do not speak Dutch, as an example, practicing the language together with their kids. The school has passionate and hardworking

teachers, small classes and an atmosphere the major described as one where “I would happily send my kids to”.

“Instead of open hearts, we propagate closed borders.” The people pushing for this are not the ‘white’ citizens. They are the ‘immigrants’, the ones to push their luck, fight for any chance they get. And fleeing to us, are people of the same caliber. They flee from war, hunger, poverty, persecution, through cold, pain, heat and hate. They are willing to take the risks, to do whatever they can to build up their lives here and to contribute to our society. They want to take part here. And yet we build a wall, a fortress to keep them out, to keep their dreams out. Immigrants and refugees are not the past compatriots, but they might be future compatriots. They might not be commemorated, but they still want to make sacrifices to come and to contribute. Yet all we leave them is a sea of broken dreams on their way to fortress Europe.

“They want to take part here. And yet we build a wall, a fortress to keep them out, to keep their dreams out..” – Arjan Derks 60

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