Projects
Follow up on 'The large Antwerp Student Research' University of Antwerp
Re-conceptualising the Right to Housing: Ethnographic research on new housing initiatives in Brussels and Antwerp KU Leuven
Based on the increasing commodification of the social housing market and the consequences this has carried for the affordability and security of housing for underprivileged residents, the wider research project this PhD is embedded in intends to (1) study the extent to which the right to housing for underprivileged residents is reclaimed in new housing strategies and through social housing activism as well as (2) the extent to which this ...
A survey of the (a-)synchronicity between the fourth Kondratieff long-term economic cycles and investment patterns in urban planning in Antwerp and Amsterdam ;and the impact of these patterns upon the cities' attractiveness. University of Antwerp
Agreement Born-Bunge Institute and University of Antwerp, 2023-2027. University of Antwerp
The Stirring of the Religious Space. Late medieval perception and experience in the Antwerp Church of Our Lady (c. 1450-1566) KU Leuven
This dissertation is part of an interdisciplinary BRAIN-be project, a research collaboration of the KU Leuven, UCL and KIK-IRPA Brussels. The project aims at conducting an iconological and anthropological research devoted to the late medieval and early modern liturgical heritage (ornamenta sacra) from the Southern Netherlands. The historical framework of Wauters’ study spans the complex development of an urban parish where the limits ...
Redeveloping the City. Cartography of the Afterlife of Monasteries in the Belgian Towns of Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges (1773/1796-1860) KU Leuven
In the late 18th century Enlightenment gave rise to the modern states and a dissolution of religious structures and landscapes. Although the dissolution of the monasteries is considered a major catalyst for urban change in the first half of the 19th-century Belgian cities, until now a synthesis was lacking. The doctoral dissertation ‘Redeveloping the City. Cartography of the ‘Second-life’ of the Monasteries in the Belgian towns of Brussels, ...