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Date: 2 – 10 September 2019 Location: Coney Island, New York City Organization: Drs. Arch. Gitte Schreurs; Prof. Dr. Kris Scheerlinck Department of Architecture, KU Leuven Hosted by…
Large parts of the (West-) European territory have a dispersed character. The research cell all city/all land (AC/AL) explores the potentials and characteristics of dispersed configurations where…
Date: Monday 4th March 2019 Location: Escuela Superior Técnica de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona, ETSAB-UPC, Barcelona, Spain Laboratory of Urbanism of Barcelona – DUOT –…
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. 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….
RESEARCH PROJECT: STREETSCAPE TERRITORIES AS CINEMATIC SUPPORT Prof. Dr. Kris Scheerlinck (movie still from “Billy Elliot”, BBC films, director Stephen Daldry, 2000) Exciting news! A couple of…
Field trip and Hackató maib14 “BARCELONAs ROUNDS. Infrastructures as a Tool to Explore the City”, Design Studio by Cecilia Chiappini From 17th to 23rd October students from the…
SEMINAR: Forms of Adaptations within Urban Markets in Emerging Cities (For official call, see below) Location: Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels 65-67, Paleizenstraat – 1030 Brussels |…
(RE)LEARNING FROM NEW JERSEY Exploring and reading elsewheres. Dr. Erik Van Daele Designing in a non-binary land/ city context demands a specific vocabulary to value the complex…
This summer school Productive Sidewalks in New York aims to achieve new critical insights about multiple and temporary productive uses of space and changing policies. The summer school…
EN (Dutch and French version below) The Municipality of Schaerbeek, the Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels KU Leuven, the Higher Institute of Social Training and Communication (ISFSC) and…
EN The Municipality of Schaerbeek, the Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels KU Leuven, the Higher Institute of Social Training and Communication (ISFSC) and the Wijkpartenariaat – De Schakel vzw…
Co-creating & Building Solidary Housing for Homeless: A Model for Mobile Dwelling in the Brussels Capital Region In the Brussels Capital Region, 44.332 residents are on the waiting…
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…
Old Landscapes & New Urbanities International summerschool, Scheldt-valley, Belgium August 29th – September 8th 2016 Summary The hybrid urbanization of the Flemish territory, resulting in a peri-urban condition…
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…
Urban transformation is directly related to the planning, design and use of a series of urban infrastructures: from streets to highways, from bus to train lines and their…
During the last decades collective spaces around Europe have been changing rapidly. We are witnessing the emergence of a new condition called ‘super-diversity’. This term a level and…
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,…
The research is focused in two intermingled lines. (1) The first line researches the ‘mechanisms on theory-building’ with a special attentiveness to the relation between theory and daily…
The common research project starts from the idea that the built environment and open spaces, can be understood as Collective Structures. The research project focuses on urban projects,…
Project Arrivée: Counter-mapping Super-diversity in Brussels and Ghent with Architecture Students This project introduces a counter-mapping attempt augmented by a Geoweb 2.0 platform in the context of two Belgian inner-city…
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…
This research covers an interdisciplinary area between architecture and urban design, participation and digital spatial media*. The two main and complementary focus points are exploring and enabling bottom-up…
Streetscape Territories is the name given to an international research and design project that deals with the way buildings and properties are related to streets and how their…