Publications

The Smart Flanders programme was initiated by the Flemish Government in 2017 and is coordinated by interdisciplinary researchers of two universities The goal of the program is to support the 13 so-called center cities in the Region (by and large the biggest cities) and a representation of the Flemish Community in the Brussels Region with defining and implementing smart city-activities and (open) data publishing. In order to achieve this, these ...

This paper presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of business models that involve public actors, and city governments in particular, in the value network. It starts from an established business model framework and expands it to include an additional set of parameters required to successfully perform a qualitative analysis of the business models of new (digital) services offered by cities. It then applies this framework to four ...

Although Brussels does not figure as prominently in literature in English as do the more iconic cosmopolitan cities of London and New York, when the flâneur-narrator of Open City (2011) keeps up his ambulatory habits in the Belgian capital during a brief holiday from his psychiatry residency at a Manhattan hospital, Teju Cole joins a long line of authors from across the world who have drawn inspiration from Brussels (Acke and Bekers, eds., ...

This article proposes a new business model framework that allows the design and analysis of value networks for mobile services in a public context. It starts from a validated business model framework that relies on 12 design parameters to evaluate business models on, and expands it by eight parameters to include important aspects that come into play when a public entity (i.e. a city government) becomes (or wants to become) involved in the value ...

This paper involves an in-depth study of the story of the Reno prison boat for the asylum seekers and presents an re-imagination of this boat as a Heterotopic Space in the framework of an international architectural design studio. Inspired by Foucault’s "Of Other Spaces", this proposal attempts to rethink the Reno Pontoon as a counter-site, a kind of effectively enacted utopia covering alternative urban practices and sites which can be found ...