Projects
Analysis of the housing needs and housing preferences in the city of Ghent. Focused on different target groups and urban areas Ghent University
In this qualitative research the housing curriculum, the housing needs and housing preferences for a series of target groups are mapped. This is to underpin the local housing policy, concentrating on three urban areas: the city centre, the 19th century belt and the urban fringe.
Post-Covid housing supply in the Brussels Capital Region: changes in location choices, new forms of live-work housing and adapted built environments. KU Leuven
Housing has played a central role in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This project (Innoviris Prospective Research, 2021-2024) assumes that stay-at-home measures and permanent telework will have long-term effects on housing and working conditions, requiring a reconfiguration of housing provision and working amenities’ supply. More broadly, we consider the Covid-19 crisis as a critical juncture that genuinely challenges housing systems and ...
Social housing as a tool for the right to housing. University of Antwerp
Affordability and Housing Preferences for New Urban Housing Projects - The Development of a more Integrated Approach KU Leuven
Hidden housing needs and innovative housing initiatives KU Leuven
‘Innovative' housing initiatives (Brusselmans et al., 2019) are founded because the 'traditional' channels do not sufficiently guarantee the right to housing for its socially vulnerable users. Their creation illustrates the existence and emergence of a multitude of housing needs. Since starting a new housing initiative is not an easy task, their creation also illustrates that many housing needs and housing solutions remain under the radar and ...
Preparation VLAIO Spin-off Mandate Application: ‘Solidary Mobile Housing 2.0: a Social Enterprise Spin-off for Low-cost, Inclusive and Transitional Housing‘ KU Leuven
Proof of Concept for the Solidary Mobile Housing Co-Creation Model and the Realized Housing Prototype (PoC SMH) KU Leuven
In 2016, with the support of the INNOVIRIS Co-create Fund, the Department of Architecture of the KU Leuven and the NGO’s Samenlevingsopbouw Brussel (SOB) and CAW Brussel started up the ‘Solidary Mobile Housing’ (SMH) applied research project. From 2017 until today, a group of eight future inhabitants have been working together with employees of SOB and CAW, students, teachers and researchers of the Faculty/Department of Architecture of the KU ...