2018

The Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage, also known as MACCH, is a research centre that brings takes an interdisciplinary approach to arts and heritage. The field of arts and heritage today is complex and it faces increasingly more difficult challenges, MACCH aims to tackle these challenges taking a diverse approach. MACCH […]

An important aspect of the Made2Measure project has been to research the development of the cultural and creative industries in the last few years. For our report Mapping Maastricht, we have used CBS Microdata in order to map the development of number of companies, FTEs, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial profit in the sector. We depict the […]

In March, students from Rachel Pownall’s Art Markets course taught at the UM Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences created a report on the local art market. Georgia Mowry, Maria Alcalde, and Charlotte Micheels mapped the existing art dealers in Maastricht and interviewed 17 of them about their business. The report gives insights on the […]

STUDENT Helen Verploegen PROGRAMME UCM Capstone Assignment (Bachelor thesis) RESEARCH Cognitive Clothes: Using cognitive psychology to promote sustainable clothing consumption Helen’s bachelor thesis at University College Maastricht was supervised by Made2Measure. She used theories in cognitive psychology to develop a toolkit for designers and retailers who want to encourage their clients to buy sustainably. As […]

STUDENT Frederike Bauer & Elisabeth Bussu PROGRAMME University College Maastricht, PEERS RESEARCH Students’ fashion consumption in Maastricht Frederike and Elisabeth have conduced research under guidance of the Made2Measure project. Their research was aimed at spending patterns of students within Maastricht. Below an executive summary of their research can be found. In today’s society, materialistic products […]