Projects
Sci-Fi and the Future of Work KU Leuven
Since the future of work is not yet fixed and will be the result of collective behaviour and decisions, it is best studied in the form of prevailing imaginaries, which are conceptualised in our collective consciousness as contrasting scenarios. Starting from the idea that the future of work can best be understood through the tensions between these scenarios, rather than focusing on a few 'likely' predictions, this PhD research will try to map ...
Research Council Laureate 2017 - Deleeck Award: Social and Human Sciences University of Antwerp
Conflicts on screen: an exploratory study of migrant media in Europe in relation to ethno-political conflicts since 1980 University of Antwerp
Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti: A Comparative Study of Experimental Art Documentaries in Belgium and Italy (1940-1965) Ghent University
Focusing on European art documentaries made in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, this research
project aims at investigating two of its key figures, who were both leading art historians, critics,
and filmmakers: Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Both Haesaerts and Ragghianti
attempted to translate the disciplines of art history and art criticism into film, using various
cinematic devices to analyse the ...
Along The Sides Along and the (im)possibility of imaging limits. Fragment of 'Le journal d’un usager de l’espace'. KU Leuven
Le journal d’un usager de l’espace is a heterogeneous artistic practise where the focus is on space that is at the same time geographic, sensorial and social. On the (im)possibility to form an idea of limits relies on the ‘act of drawing’ to explore, along the way, visual possibilities in order to appropriate limits in a place (or context) as objective matter into an artistic vocabulary. The exploratory and ...
Dystopian Optimism. Countering precariousness as the condition of our time. KU Leuven
Our imagination about the future suffers from an impasse between technological optimism and dystopian visions of the end of humankind. This PhD in the arts introduces the concept of 'Dystopian Optimism' to counter the predominant premise that globally interconnected precariousness is the condition of our time. It recognizes dystopia as a societal reality and proposes to complement it with optimism: a fiction that enables one to project a ...
Dialogue for Cinema as Cultural Heritage: Identification, recognition and community-based inventory of cinemas as the intangible cultural heritage in Adana via cross-border dialogue Ghent University
The overall objective: to promote civil society dialogue and networking between the CSOs and stakeholders in Adana and the EU, by focusing on the field of historic cinema places and cinemagoing experiences as intangible cultural heritage values in Adana. Specific objectives: (1) to raise awareness, especially amongst youth and European civil society, on the cultural heritage value of historical cinema places and experiences in Adana, (2) to ...
The Belgian Silvering Screen: A multi-method research project on ageist discourses and representations in Belgian cinema (1945-2022) Ghent University
Research on mediated representations of age, old age and audience’s experiences around old age is still scarce. Nevertheless, there is a growing number of representations of older people in media (cf. film, TV shows, advertisements, etc.). Existing research on ageism frequently illuminates the topic from a focus on TV series and news articles. Much less research is done on film, despite the medium's wide reach and popularity. Given Belgium's ...