Projects
Negotiating solidarity. The shared history and heritage of Belgian civil society and postwar Muslim migration KU Leuven
This project, intertwining historical and anthropological approaches, critically analyzes and evaluates the interactions of multifaceted postwar Flemish/Belgian civil society with the country's Muslim communities of Moroccan and Turkish descent. An in-depth understanding of the multifold exchanges emerging since the 1960s between the country’s social movements and organizations, NGOs, religious institutes… and the growing communities of ...
Deradicalizing the city. Policy assemblage, security and the question of belonging in Brussels. KU Leuven
Transcending quests for 'authentic' human experience: An empirical comparison of endurance walking and running KU Leuven
Materiality, Making, and Empowerment: Designing Squeeze Interactions in a School for Disabled Children KU Leuven
The world around us is filled with a richness of materials. Through and with our bodies, we experience, explore, and manipulate these materials throughout the day; materials that are sticky or smooth, that bend or break, that wrap them selves around us or that melt away upon touch. Translating this physical way of interacting and being in the world to interacting with and being in a digital environment, one can wonder where the richness went. ...
Medico-anthropological methodologies of AIDS and communication research: Research Stay at CHIP (University of Connecticut) Ghent University
To optimize his research into HIV, mobile communication and youth cultures in Douala, Cameroun, Ivo Ngade completes a 6 month stay at the University of Connecticut, at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP), as well as at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (Yale).
Ritual or medicine? An anthropological study of complementary and parallel psychiatries around Lake Victoria Ghent University
Based on research into the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding 'mental health' among medical professionals, traditional healers and faith healers in districs along Lake Victoria, we establish the peacemaking role of the medico-political system creating complementary psychiatries. Institutionalisation (via State and Churches) and standardization (via schools, media and non-governmental projects) are stimulating parallel psychiatries, ...
The horizons of Guibert of Gembloux (1124/25-1214). Historical-anthropological research into the world of a Benedictine letter writer from the decades after the so-called 'crisis of cenobitism' Ghent University
Starting from the letter collection of Guibert of Gembloux, this historical-anthropological study aims at evaluating the way in which traditional Benedictinism in the Southern Low Countries positioned itself both socially and spiritually in the decades following immediately after the alleged crisis of traditional cenobitism (Van Engen, 1986).
Enhancing Capacity for Climate Change Resilience in Nakuru, Kenya through an AI-based Monitoring and Early Warning System for Climate Change Induced Air Pollution KU Leuven
Our primary aim is to enhance climate change resilience in Nakuru through supporting local AI-enabled innovative forecasting of climate-change induced air pollution that supports effective climate adaptation strategies in line with Nakuru's Climate Change Act, the National Climate Change Plan 2023 – 2027 and Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action Plan (SEACAP). This project thrives on a collaboration between experts in data science, ...