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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) ...
Increasing socio-spatial resilience through temporary appropriation of urban waiting spaces for housing: a Participatory Action Research on the Solidary Mobile Housing project in Brussels KU Leuven
This PhD research is embedded in the Solidary Mobile Housing (SMH) project, a Living Lab aimed at developing, testing, and refining a model and prototype for the co-creation of solidary living in mobile homes on un(der)used urban spaces in the Brussels-Capital Region. However, this study goes beyond the SMH project's practical outcomes and theoretical musings. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the co-creation of temporary housing ...
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 ...