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MASTER DISSERTATION – Productive Venice

Productive Venice Streetscape Territories: Architectural Interventions for the Lido Waterfront, Venice, Italy Master Dissertation Studio, Prof. Dr. Arch. Kris Scheerlinck Engagement: Urban Cultures Campus Brussels/Ghent Streetscape Territories Streetscape…

JOINT RESEARCH SEMINAR – Collective Spaces (Re)Visited

Image: The Church of Santa Maria del Mar and its relation with the Born Paseo, Barcelona, 2015. Gothic Church used as (cooled) event space (picture by Scheerlinck Kris (2015)…

INAUGURAL LECTURES – KU Leuven, Department of Architecture. By Prof. Gisèle Gantois

INAUGURAL LECTURES May 13th 2022 Lecture “Restauring Broken Journeys” by Prof. Gisèle Gantois 10h30, Arenberg Castle auditorium + Salons in Leuven Registration is required  

INAUGURAL LECTURES – KU Leuven, Department of Architecture. By Prof. Maarten Gheysen

INAUGURAL LECTURES April 29th 2022 Lecture “Tools for Togetherness” by Prof. Maarten Gheysen 10h30, Campus Hoogstraat Ghent Registration is required    

LECTURES – Invited talks for the course ‘Atelier SUD’

LECTURE – Strategies for Land-Tenure, Housing and Neighbourhoodbuilding in Filadelfia, by Yves Schoonjans

STRATEGIES FOR LAND-TENURE, HOUSING AND NEIGHBOURHOODBUILDING IN FILADELFIA, THE CHACO-AREA, PARAGUAY By Yves Schoonjans   KEYWORDS: Immigration, Informal Settlements, Urban growth, Public Spaces, Sustainable Growth Public spaces are vital for…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Ahmad Adeel: “Insights into the impact of mega transport infrastructure projects on the transformation of the urban fabric of Lahore”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Ahmad Adeel “Insights into the impact of mega transport infrastructure projects on the transformation of the urban fabric of Lahore”   Date: 7 March 2022…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Gitte Schreurs: “Insights on the reconfiguration of vulnerable industrial waterfronts facing shocks and stresses. Coney Island Creek, New York City, USA”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Gitte Schreurs “Insights on the reconfiguration of vulnerable industrial waterfronts facing shocks and stresses” Coney Island Creek, New York City, USA   Date: 25 February 2022…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Chukwuemeka Vincent Chukwuemeka: “Emergent Spatialities in Urban Africa: Case Study of Onitsha Markets in Nigeria”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Chukwuemeka Vincent Chukwuemeka “Emergent Spatialities in Urban Africa: Case Study of Onitsha Markets in Nigeria”   Date: 12 January 2022 Location: Due to covid measures, the…

PUBLICATION – Why Latin America matters

Xavier Méndez-Abad, Hans Leinfelder & Yves Schoonjans (2021), Notes on Urban Informality: transformations, places and practices. In Garcia Ferrari S., Offerdal H., Kania M. (eds), Why Latin America…

CONFERENCE – Region Ahra 2021

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CONFERENCE – Histories of urban design. Global trajectories and local identities

ETH Zürich Department of Architecture: 15-17 November 2021, This conference is organised jointly with the TU Delft Department of Architecture.   Lessons from the Galette: Public Space and the…

LUNCH SEMINAR – Urban Cultures (going public)

SUMMER SCHOOL – Rethinking the potential of depopulated places. A study of the ravine of Oliván. Reflections from the SummerSchool “Heritage, Landscape & Memory”.

RETHINKING THE POTENTIAL OF DEPOPULATED PLACES. A STUDY OF THE RAVINE OF OLIVÁN. REFLECTIONS FROM THE SUMMER-SCHOOL “HERITAGE, LANDSCAPE & MEMORY”.   Introduction The phenomenon of depopulation has…

WEBINAR – Territorial Transformations in Waterfronts, international case studies

WEBINAR Territorial Transformations in Waterfronts, international case studies Coney Island Creek, New York City, USA (lecture by Drs. Arch. Gitte Schreurs) Guayaquil, Ecuador (lecture by Drs. Arch. Maria Fernanda…

WEBINAR – Ciudades hechas por ciudadanos

RESEARCH ELECTIVE – 2021-2022 Urban projects, Collective Spaces and Local Identities

MASTER DISSERTATION STUDIO – Streetscape Territories: Multiple Readings, Multiple Interventions.

Streetscape Territories: Multiple Readings, Multiple Interventions.   For more information, click here Architectural interventions for the Hudson Riverfront, Manhattan, New York, USA Master Dissertation Studio, Prof. Dr. Arch. Kris Scheerlinck…

LECTURES – Paola Vigano and Feda Wardak

From 30 August – 8 September 2021, the summer school Eurometropolis 2.1: a blue space in transition (led by Erik Van Daele, Maarten Gheysen and Sophie Leemans) will take…

WORKSHOP – Correctionville01, Noorbeek (The Netherlands)

Two of the members of our research group, Gisèle Gantois and Sophie Leemans will participate in the workshop Correctionville01, which focuses in different aspects concerning mapping. The seminar…

WEBINAR – Experiencias en la transformación del espacio publico en América Latina

LECTURE – Heritage Reformulated. Innovative Occupation Practices by New Users in Vacant Vernacular Spaces at the Spanish Pyrenees.

  In the frame of Rehabilitation of Urban Heritage in the Cities of Iraq Project funded by the DAAD, part of the joint activities between the Middle East Cooperation…

Solidary Mobile Housing INNOVIRIS Co-Creation Project

Solidary Mobile Housing INNOVIRIS Co-Creation Project Supervisors: Burak Pak & Yves Schoonjans Researcher: Aurelie de Smet   Joint project between the two KU Leuven research groups ‘ALT_Shift*’ and…

Emerging Ecologies & Urban Design

Emerging Ecologies & Urban Design Exploring the potential role of alternative relationships between nature and culture in the design of socio-ecological coastal landscapes in the littoral zone of…

GOING PUBLIC Lunch Seminar – Felipe De Ferrari

GOING PUBLIC Lecture Series #27 – Arif Hasan

GOING PUBLIC Lecture Series #22 – Britt Baillie

FINAL REVIEW – Engagement Urban Cultures: Studio maib34

WORKSHOP – Negotiating space in rural and post-industrial areas

WEBINAR – Transformaciones Territoriales

WEBINAR – Transformaciones Territoriales The research group ‘Urban Projects, collective spaces & local identities’ has joined the project ‘Transformaciones Territoriales en El Frente Fluvial de Asunción y Area…