Category: Ph.D. Projects
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…
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…
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…
The Case of Mlalakuwa- Dar es Salaam-Tanzania This project focuses on the transformation of collective spaces into sustainable community spaces in informal settlements that are defined by…
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…
Workers’ villages played an important role in the identity building of the first decades of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the first and second Five-Year Plan…
Rethinking the dispersed city paradigm by exploring the strategic nodes of its (physical) networks. Design strategies at the intermediate scale for the next urban constellation. In the binary…
Multilayered public spaces as productive assets towards more sustainable informal settlements: the case study of Lahore, Pakistan Informal settlements are one of the critical challenges of urbanism…
Insights on the reconfiguration of vulnerable industrial waterfronts facing shocks and stresses. Coney Island Creek, New York City, USA. Doctoral Dissertation by Gitte Schreurs Defended on February 25,…
(re)occupy the ruin. Adaptation strategies for vacant vernacular heritage in rural depopulated territories under transformation. Depopulation of rural areas as a result of migration towards urban centers is…
This project aims to discuss and raise awareness on the specific complex development issues of the indigenous peoples, migrant Latino’s and Mennonites in the Chaco area where the…
Insights on landscape accessibility challenged by new infrastructures for climate resilience: The case of the Belgian Coastal area. The socio-economic impact of nature in Belgian coastal landscapes on…
Achieving Critical Insights about Multiple and Temporary Uses of Space and Changing Policies. This PhD-project aims to research ‘new models of productivity of urban sidewalks’ within the contemporary…
Experimental Practices in Architectural Design Studio This PhD research aims to focus on experimental practices in architectural design studios through three main processes namely, triggering concepts, extraordinary representations…
Micro strategies for a social and sustainable re-use of fragile heritage. This comparative, local-interactive project aims to understand, and create a better insight, how local populations of deprived…
Understanding Urban Dynamics of Informal and Formal Market Spaces as Emergent Infrastructures: Self- Organisation Processes of Urban Growth and the use of Collective Spaces in the African City –…
Tracing the deep significance of built heritage through encounters with undisclosed protagonists This research study is inspired by a great fascination with built heritage, for its tangible beauty,…
If we consider highly urbanised regions, like Flanders, as atypical metropolitan constellations than the quality of this diluted urban environment, characterised by a multitude of ‘holes’, is to…
Bridging the gap between formal and informal design processes This doctoral study proposes that, all societies which are in transition require a new role and form of architectural…
Unlocking the potential of collective spaces in All City/All Land. Defining a theoretical framework and exploring an attitude for intervention in the dispersed territory. This research focuses on…
Infrastructures under Transformation as Spaces of Collectivities. Case-Study: Glòries, Barcelona, Spain (PhD project completed in 2021) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kris Scheerlinck (KU Leuven) Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yves Schoonjans (KU…
An Opportunity in Contemporary Remains: Change of Use and its Relation to the Urban Fabric. The regeneration of urban areas is a multi-layered topic, characterised by a high…
Architectural remote practices A research on the design of collective spaces in the distance PhD project Johan Nielsen (Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven) The planet’s response to human…