Publications
Streetscape Essentials KU Leuven
Streetscapes are important players in the social updating of the urban fabric and its multiple collective realms. Many of the city’s social encounters and interactions, of its spatial appropriations and its territorial contestations happen at the level of the streetscape. These complex socio-spatial configurations of collective spaces, including interior spheres as well as outdoor areas, need to be constantly analysed, monitored and managed, as ...
The Social Potential of Interactive Walking KU Leuven
In this contribution some of the possibilities and the pitfalls of the practice based three steps survey methodology of Interactive Walking (Gantois, 2019) will be explored as participatory practice whereby unplanned encounters with randomly run-into subjects, members of the community impacted by a heritage project, play a decisive role. Interactive Walking is characterized by an active, context-related approach with an anthropological focus as ...