Education fellowship for augmented education settings

Martijn Stellingwerff has been awarded a Delft Education Fellowship to showcase and test different augmented education settings. His project ‘DelftXRealities’ will explore education settings that range from a digitally augmented TU Delft campus to full-immersive VR settings that allow collaborations between participants from all over the world.

DelftXRealities further explores XR, which encompasses Virtual- and Augmented Reality. XR is also the real context and the world of our imagination. XR is a collective term for a range of key enabling technologies that will soon change the realm of education in exciting and challenging ways. Within the project, Stellingwerff will be collaborating with the VR Lab of BK Bouwkunde and the New Media Centre.

Stellingwerff is one of four recipients of the Delft Education Fellowship. The Fellowships have been awarded annually since 2016 to four teachers who make a substantial and valuable contribution to the education of TU Delft. All fellows receive € 25.000 per year for their two-year project. Candidates are nominated by the dean of their faculty, and the Executive Board awards the Fellowships. Each Education Fellow works on a large educational project and acts as an ambassador for teaching at TU Delft, both within TU Delft and beyond.

Martijn Stellingwerff is assistant professor of Form & Modelling Studies at BK Bouwkunde. He previously developed two MOOC’s on XR: the ‘IMAGE ABILITY MOOC’ and the ‘Models in Architecture MOOC’. He is the second lecturer from BK Bouwkunde to receive the Delft Education Fellowship. Professor Dick van Gameren was awarded the Fellowship in 2016.