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Community-Engaged Architectural Design Learning in the Solidary Mobile Housing Project KU Leuven
In this chapter, we introduce ‘Community-engaged Architectural Design Learning’ (CEADL): a fluid concept, meandering through different subjects and academic years, and combining Engaged Learning with outreach-based community work and critical spatial practice. We elaborate on how CEADL enabled several students from the Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven to get involved as fullyfledged project partners in the ‘Solidary Mobile Housing’ (SMH) ...
Tools for Citizen Engagement in Urban Planning KU Leuven
Engaging citizens in urban planning has the potential to generate effective ideas to reinvent our cities. Particularly, designing easy to grasp and effective tools for co-creating meaningful urban spaces remains a significant challenge and an emerging need. Such tools that can involve the community in an intelligent manner are in strong demand. It is, however, required to design, develop, and implement well-executed engagement tools that open ...
Understanding Design Justice in a Bottom-up Housing through Digital Actor-Network Mapping KU Leuven
This paper is a study of an ongoing housing project in Brussels (SMH) which involves bottom-up spatial occupation and `making' by activists, activist architects, social workers and citizens. The particular focus of this paper is on the critical spatial agency of the citizens, activist-architects and artefacts for enabling architectural design justice (ADJ) in the SMH. Building on the Actor-Network Theory of Latour (2005) we developed an analytic ...
Precair wonen in Brussel KU Leuven
Between Post-Flâneur and Smartphone Zombie: Smartphone Users’ Altering Visual Attention and Walking Behavior in Public Space KU Leuven
The extensive use of smartphones in our everyday lives has created new modes of appropriation and behavior in public spaces. Recognition of these are essential for urban design and planning practices which help us to improve the relationship between humans, technologies, and urban environment. This study aims to research smartphone users in public space by observing their altering visual attention and walking behavior, and, in this way, to ...
A-Place: Linking Places Through Networked Artistic Practices KU Leuven
The purpose of A-Place “Linking places through networked artistic practices”, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme (2019-2023) is to design and implement art-centred placemaking activities in six European cities –Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia– to connect meanings and experiences associated to places across cultural and geographic boundaries. Placemaking activities will be carried out with the ...