What's your X?

We have all noticed that winter has started, and as most of you know, energy has gotten very expensive. In short, this means we students are getting either cold or poor these days…. But luckily there are quite some isolation and energy-saving tricks we can use to ease this! 

We have invited Kaatje Bout of Students4Sustainability and Claudia Hofeman of 015Duurzaam. They have some hands-on tips for us, but are also collaborating on a cool project!

When the FIFA World Cup 2022 came closer, there was a lot of debate about whether we should watch it, what sponsors needed to do and even if national teams should even participate.

We've invited dr. Thomas Peeters, who runs the Erasmus Center for Applied Sports Economics. Together with him and football fanatic Yared Pijman, we talk about how money affects the world of football. Want to know? Listen to the podcast!

Procrastination is something everybody is probably guilty of from time to time. It is hard not to, even when you know you do. But what is the reason for this and why can we get the feeling we do not control it sometimes?

Jan van Beek, student psychologist from Career and Counselling services from the TU Delft, will talk about this and will try to give you some handles to solve the problem.

Season 3 kicks off with an episode about Coming Out day. On 11th of October it was Coming Out Day. It is an international awareness day in support of the LGBTQI+ community in their coming out journey. Two students, Owen and Niv, have joined us to share their coming out story and their experience with their sexuality at TU Delft.

Are you staying in Delft / The Netherlands for the summer vacation and are looking for fun and exciting things to do? Then have a listen to this podcast where we explore the beautiful country and chat about some of your new bucket list items!

In this podcast, Kevin and Nico chat to Sieb and Pepijn, two Dutch students (and LTAX hosts) about what they recommend and what they will be getting up to. Get to know all your LTAX hosts and summer tips!

Want to know more about craft beers? How do you try them, how are some beers brewed, and what kind of flavours exist? Listen to this conversation with Marc Janssen, master brewer at Grolsch, his colleague Wim Gude and Isabel from the Fermentation Festival organisation to learn more!

The ‘What’s your ‘X’?’ podcast went live at the first edition of Maker Faire Delft! What makes making so powerful to reach our goals? What for exciting stuff is being made here in Delft? Why specifically here? And what is there in place to help these makers? We’ve invited Rinske Wessels, member of our city council for GroenLinks and Emilie Buist, project manager for the TU Delft Impact Centre to join us in this fun discussion. Hopefully you'll also get inspired to start making!

We all know that money matters. Everything we buy has an impact on the world, from the food we buy in the supermarket, to the clothes we wear or the chair we are sitting on. But this is not the only way that our money matters. 70-80% of global investments are done by institutional investors like banks, insurance companies and pension funds. So how big is this impact? In what way can we influence this with our decisions? And is it otherwise possible to change the course of these institutions? 

We've invited two students, activists and pioneers in this field; Nikki Trip and Katrien Eisenloeffel! Nikki founded the organisation ‘shareholders for the future’ and Katrien and her team managed to let the national pension fund for the hospitality industry steer away from fossil fuels!

Let's talk about D:Dream Teams. In this episode we invite Sanne Guis, Operation Manager at the DreamHall, and Axel Stroeve, an active member of Eco-Runner, to talk to us about TUDelft's Dream Teams. What is a Dream Team? How did they start? What do they do? And most importantly, how you can join!

If you want to know more, find all the information you'll need here: https://www.tudelft.nl/ddream/ 

And to keep up to date with the DreamHall and find all the Dream Teams, follow them on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/tudelftdreamhall/

Let’s talk about revenge porn. We will discuss the definition of revenge porn, the social structures that perpetuate this practice, the collective discourse about the topic in the past decades, and how public opinion can be biased depending on gender.

In this episode of Let’s talk about X, we are joined by doctor Sanne Koevoets. After obtaining her master’s degree in Gender and Ethnicity, Sanne became a doctor of philosophy in Gender Studies at Utrecht University. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at Erasmus University teaching courses about media studies and the power of image in our visual culture.