PUBLIC DEFENCE – Xavier Mendez Abad: “(Re) Making Collective Spaces. A socio-spatial exploration of the appropriation of collective spaces in Guayaquil’s barrios populares”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Xavier Mendez Abad “(Re) Making Collective Spaces. A socio-spatial exploration of the appropriation of collective spaces in Guayaquil’s barrios populares”. Date: 13 December 2024 Location: Auditorium C14,…

RESTORING BROKEN JOURNEYS

Meet the Research Cell and ADO Restoring Broken Journeys! The Research Cell and Academic Design Office (ADO) ‘Restoring Broken Journeys’ has as its central theme the re-establishment of a previous (social)…

SEMINAR – Meet The Jury: “Nancy Odendaal on Pedagogical Urbanism and the art of augmented storytelling: how civil society organisations use hybrid technologies to shape spaces”

Arenberg Doctoral School is proud to invite you to Meet The Jury! When internationally renowned experts visit KU Leuven as a member of a PhD Examination Committee, we like to…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Sophie Leemans: “Rewiring the lifelines. Investigating the role of infrastructures to address collective challenges in the dispersed territory. The case of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Sophie Leemans “Rewiring the lifelines. Investigating the role of infrastructures to address collective challenges in the dispersed territory. The case of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai”. Date:…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Muhammad Mashhood Arif: “Insights into the (Re)production of Public Spaces through Socio-Spatial Appropriation in Informal Settlements: Case Studies from Lahore, Pakistan.”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Muhammad Mashhood Arif “Insights into the (Re)production of Public Spaces through Socio-Spatial Appropriation in Informal Settlements: Case Studies from Lahore, Pakistan.” Date: 16 August 2024…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Ignacio Galán: “(Re)occupy the ruin. Unveiling the capacity of vernacular heritage for the regeneration of depopulated settlements in mountain territories under transformation. A study case of the Spanish Central Pyrenees.”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Ignacio Galán “(Re)occupy the ruin. Unveiling the capacity of vernacular heritage for the regeneration of depopulated settlements in mountain territories under transformation. A study case of the…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Yiping Zhang: “Collective Spaces in Workers’ Villages in Northeast China: A Critical Socio-spatial Analysis of the Village of Powers in Harbin.”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Yiping Zhang “Collective Spaces in Workers’ Villages in Northeast China: A Critical Socio- spatial Analysis of the Village of Powers in Harbin.” Date: 3 July…

SEMINAR – LUSI “The real-world impact of urban studies on cities”

On 29 March 2024, our Research Group members participated in the Research Day organised by LUSI (Leuven Urban Studies Institute), on the theme of “The real-world impact of urban studies…

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Paraguay 2023

In collaboration with CIDi -Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación-, Universidad Nacional de Asunción Results from the 6-week research internship: AVAILABLE HERE

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Ecuador 2023

In collaboration with Llactalab, University of Cuenca Results from the 6-week research internship: AVAILABLE HERE

WORKSHOP – “Beyond the Campus Walls: Bridging Education, Environment, and Everyday Life”

Over 60 students from the Masters of Architecture and Urbanism & Spatial Planning took part and delved into the transformation of diverse university campuses in Ghent, intricately weaving…

RESEARCH SEMINAR – A2I/ARP

The research groups A2I and ARP will host a seminar with Professor Helena Mattsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) as a guest speaker and presentations by three PhD…

In Space We Read Trauma: Disclosing Microhistories in Kosovo, 1980-1999

Trauma Studies, the scholarship analysing representations of disruptive experiences and their effect on identity and memory, is a field largely marked by language-based discourses. In examining the psychological…

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Jacob Msengui Lutta: “Transformation of Collective Spaces in an Interstitial Informal Settlement.”

PUBLIC DEFENCE – Jacob Msengui Lutta “Transformation of Collective Spaces in an Interstitial Informal Settlement. The case of Mlalakuwa, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.”   Date: 29 September 2023…

SUMMER INTENSIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME – One territory, four questions, one atlas. Oslo, Norway.

The programme is aimed to share insights and reflections on mapping. Organised by AHO Oslo, KULeuven, Universidade do Minho and ETSABarcelona-UPC.  

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Paraguay

Slum Upgrading Projects and Sustainable Reconversion of Riverbank Infrastructures in Asunción, Paraguay. Joint project: KU Leuven – Universidad Nacional de Asunción

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Ecuador

Streams in the Urbanization Process. Categorization, socio-environmental historical conflicts and contributions to public policy in Cuenca-Ecuador. Joint project KU Leuven – Universidad de Cuenca

RESEARCH SEMINAR – Information visualisation: interactive dashboards with Tableau, R. & Analysis of subjectivity on public spaces: Q methodology

Speaker: prof. Daniel Orellana* Date: June 20th. Time: 9:30 – 12:30 Location: Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven. Sint-Niklaastraat 27, Room 2.11. Gent.   * Daniel is a Principal…

EXHIBITION – Graduation Projects: Care-Taking As Iterative Process

Exhibition of Masters’ Dissertation projects Date: 25 June 2023.   14-18h. Location: Fortress 7, Legerstraat 40, 2610 Wilrijk.    (Free entrance).   Promotor: Gisèle Gantois Co-Promotor: Ignacio Galán  …

The Role of Spatial Memory in Urban Reconstruction Planning after Disaster. The Ypres case.

In urban reconstruction planning after a disaster, the pressure on the recovery of space, discourse and organisations brings forward a monomaniac strategy often based on the four-staged recovery…

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Bolivia

LOS POZOS – MARKETSECTOR IN SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, BOLIVIA, KU LEUVEN-UPSA, 2022 Link BOOKLET

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Tanzania

UNDERSTANDING THE EMERGING COLLECTIVE SPACES IN MLALAKUWA INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA (KU Leuven- Ardhi University) Link BOOKLET

SUMMER INTERNSHIP – Paraguay

STUDY OF MICROFILLING, URBAN FABRIC AND USE OF SPACE IN THE CATEURA LAGOON AND DUMP SITE, ASUNCIÒN, PARAGUAY (KU Leuven- Universidad de Asunsiòn) Link BOOKLET

DOCTORAL SEMINAR – Travelling concepts: learning from the dispersed territory of Flanders

Travelling concepts: learning from the dispersed territory of Flanders Fri 27 January 2023, 13:00-15:00 CET online Diana Gouveia Amaral, KU Leuven & University of Minho Sophie Leemans, KU…

LECTURE – Lifelines: Infrastructure (and) Transformation in the European Territory

A lunchtime lecture by Sophie Leemans, Architect, PhD researcher at KU Leuven (supervisor: Maarten Gheysen, co-supervisor: Erik Van Daele), and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for Resilient Cities…

Rethinking collective spaces through the façade element: from formality to informality

Sustainability and well being as the basic argument of any urban intervention is the pretext that encourages the return of dialogue between Architecture and Urbanism, as intrinsically related…

AWARD – Publications SURLAB finalist on the Pan-American Architecture Biennale in Quito, Ecuador (2022)

The publication of a funded South Initiative VLIR-UOS SURLAB-Project (main coordinator of our faculty: Yves Schoonjans, Hans Leinfelder & Xavier Mendez) were selected on the Pan-American Architecture Biennale…

SEMINAR – Rural Structures in the Periphery of a Megacity: The Case of Bogotá and its Former Villages

Wednesday 16 November. 3pm. Campus Gent, Sint-Niklaasstraat, Room 2.11 Lecture by Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Alissa Diesch (Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft | Leibniz Universität Hannover). Research presentations by PhD candidates / post-doctoral…

CONFERENCE – Contested heritage in the 21st century: Eastern Europe and beyond.

(20-21 October 2022) Prof. Dr. Gisèle Gantois participates as discussant in the online conference “Contested heritage in the 21st century: Eastern Europe and beyond”.  It is an initiative…

ACTIVITY – Urban Perpetual Recognition: Drawing as an Estrangement from Everyday Vision

By Drs. Arch. Lucas Bizzotto In light of the maib34 Design Studio by Dr. Cecilia Chiappini