Projects
Architecture + VR project (temporary) KU Leuven
This project investigates how Virtual Reality (VR) and generative architecture can, together, lead to the design and development of novel locomotion methods. Specifically, we aim to develop algorithmical solutions that allow users of Virtual Environments (VEs) to explore the virtual space by natural locomotion without resorting to "supernatural" locomotion methods. We propose to enable natural locomotion throughs an architectural approach, ...
Expressive moments in augmented music realities Ghent University
The goal of the project is to study expressive moments in augmented music realities. Expressive
moments are subjective experiences of optimal interaction with, or guided by, music, such as flow,
euphoria, and ecstasy. These moments will be studied in settings that involve collective musicmaking
in augmented music environments. The environments include technologies to measure
physical and ...
The role of lavaka in the landscapes of Madagascar: a process-based approach. KU Leuven
The role of human disturbance in driving the environmental changes experienced in Madagascar since human settlement remains poorly understood. At the centre of this debate are lavaka, large inverse teardrop-shaped gullies that scar the rolling hills of the central highlands of Madagascar. The physical processes and environmental drivers affecting lavaka formation remain unclear. Therefore, the overarching goal of this study was to shed new ...
Epistolary Culture and the Formation of the Syriac Orthodox Church: The Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug (d. 523) KU Leuven
The fifth and sixth centuries were a decisive period for the emergence of the Syriac Orthodox Church, a community rooted in the Middle East which now forms an integral part of European society. The Christological controversies sparked by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 led to divisions between churches that persist to the present. Late antique letters offer rich details about interactions between leaders of the anti-Chalcedonian, miaphysite ...
Networking in the past: the role of social capital in the success of the neoclassical painter and educator François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) in nascent Belgium Ghent University
Networking is important, also for an artist in the 19th century. François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869), director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and a neoclassical artist, developed an impressive social network in nascent Belgium. Despite the knowledge we have of Navez’s paintings and his role in supporting the development of a newly forming nation-state through his role as director at the Brussels Academy, we have little knowledge on ...
Constrained. A Comparative Study of the Influence of Form on the Material Transmission of Middle Dutch Literature. University of Antwerp
The early modern city as literary domain: A systematic study of the city encomium and its transformations (ca. 1403–1585), with special reference to multilingual representations of urban spaces. KU Leuven
In the early modern period, laudations of cities became a popular literary genre that developed from a Latin prose genre to a multilingual poetical genre. These ‘city encomia’ have attracted some attention in the last decades, but only on a case study basis, without considering its broader transformations. This project will perform a large-scale, data-driven analysis of the forms and contents of the genre. Firstly, I will build a database of ...
DRIVING CHANGE: Putting small-scale producers in the driver's seat of battery-mineral supply chain regulation. University of Antwerp
Hive Mind: Networks, collectivity, and mentorship amongst women artists, patrons, and collectors in the Low Countries in the early modern period. Ghent University
The project will explore the relationships amongst the women artists, collectors, and patrons in the circle proximate to the still-life painter Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) and examine their roles in that network. In doing so, the project will uncover, for example, the various ways in which the women influenced each other, helped each other develop technically, and shared resources. Relying upon an innovative methodology and an analytical ...