Projects
Shared Leadership – The Key to Optimal Team Functioning? KU Leuven
Leadership, and especially effective leadership, has inspired authors from the oldest works in literature (e.g., The Odyssey) up to recent authors (e.g., John C. Maxwell, Simon Sinek, and Brené Brown). The age-old fascination for the perfect leadership model is almost akin to the search for the holy grail. Much like the tales on this legendary quest appealed to people’s fascination, the allure of great leadership has also inspired ...
Towards a Robotic Architecture that Mediates Place: Prototyping Meaningful Human-Building Interactions through Autonomous Spatial Adaptation. KU Leuven
The discipline of adaptive architecture explores how the architectural space can dynamically adapt to the changing needs of occupants. Over five decades of research, it has proposed that such dynamic adaptations hold the potential to evoke 'poetic' experiences from occupants that might be as compelling as those of its 'static' counterpart. While it is still unclear how these experiences can unfold in a meaningful way, applicable theories from ...
SBO Project with primary societal finality: Serendipity Engine: towards surprising and interesting urban experiences Vrije Universiteit Brussel
recommender systems. The trend is towards serving predictable,
popular and homogeneous content, which is often referred to as “filter
bubbles”. In an urban context, this means that people are no longer
exposed to the diversity of cities and their inhabitants, which has
negative consequences for the open and democratic character of the ...
Addressing alcohol use in general practice - a community-oriented approach KU Leuven
Background
Even though often socially accepted, alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for poor health and death in the world. Therefore, the world health organization (WHO) promotes the integration of alcohol-related early identification and brief intervention (EIBI) in general practice as one of the most cost-effective strategies to address this burden. However, implementation of EIBI in general practice remains low. ...
Dopaminergic reward signals selectively decrease fMRI activity in primate visual cortex KU Leuven
Throw them in the deep end. The potential of musical improvisation in connecting participatory music activities and formal music education. KU Leuven
There is a growing evidence that musical improvisation has the potential to promote a music education for all. This perspective calls for a critical consideration of the social and musical dimensions of music education and improvisation. In this respect, participatory music activities often use improvisation and especially, collective free improvisation (CFI), to promote inclusive music making. The pedagogical-artistic strategies of the ...
Sabbatical Fien Depaepe: Using technology for the benefit of learning KU Leuven
During this sabbatical period, I intend to spend two months at the Institute of Education / UCL Knowledge Lab at University College London (including Manolis Mavrikis, Mutlu Cukurova, Alison Clark-Wilson, Diana Laurillard). This stay will focus on the exchange of research experience (including by attending research seminars, discussions with employees, giving a research seminar) and strengthening the existing research collaboration. Depending ...
Tracing the deep significance of built heritage through encounters with undisclosed protagonists. KU Leuven
This research study is inspired by a great fascination with built heritage, for its tangible beauty, the craftsmanship it holds, and for the meaning generating force of heritage in the past, present and future. It is motivated by a great concern about the future of heritage and its, largely, underestimated present societal role and its irreplaceable importance for a society because it gives rise to cultural and social identity for different ...