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Built Heritage as Imagines Agentes KU Leuven
In this paper we seek to investigate the concept of built heritage as Imagines Agentes whereby built heritage functions as a generating force in the process of appropriation towards belonging. Heritage places as meaningful locations can form a bridge linking the past to the future in a sensitive way. Accessing a local community’s connections to their surrounding environment and recognising and acknowledging the role that built heritage plays ...
Embodying local identity as heritage in transition The case study of Onitsha markets, Nigeria KU Leuven
A narrative approach to collective spaces urban analysis and the empowerment of local voices KU Leuven
Narrative Approaches for Collective Spaces: updating analysis methods and empowering local voices in urban projects KU Leuven
Urban Projects, Collective Spaces & Local Identities (KU Leuven) is a transdisciplinary research group (working in the field of architecture, urban design, urbanism, heritage practice and history and theory of architecture and urbanism) that seeks to produce insights and pronounce a critical discourse on the reading, making and transformation of the changing collective spaces in contemporary landscapes. The research projects of the group ...
The collective use of private ground. Negotiating Everyday Vicinity in Boom (Flanders) KU Leuven
A fast territorial transformation is occurring under polarizing and accelerating processes of urban concentration and depopulation, of economic development and decline. This is strongly impacting local communities around the world, changing the way people live and use collective spaces. These global challenges become even more visible in post-situation areas such as post-industrial, post-traumatic and peri-urban areas, where the collectively ...
Tracing the deep significance of built heritage through encounters with undisclosed protagonists. KU Leuven
This research study is inspired by a great fascination with built heritage, for its tangible beauty, the craftsmanship it holds, and for the meaning generating force of heritage in the past, present and future. It is motivated by a great concern about the future of heritage and its, largely, underestimated present societal role and its irreplaceable importance for a society because it gives rise to cultural and social identity for different ...