The housing market depends critically on credit market conditions and the link between housing and credit has recently attracted considerable interest in empirical papers. The strong interlinkage between both markets raises numerous question: How do borrowers choose between different mortgage products? How do households make reinvestment decision for their largest single component of household wealth? How are housing and mortgage markets ...
Aim of this research
The aim of this PhD is to investigate the boundaries wherein restrictions on freedom in residential care in Flanders are permitted and to determine whether these boundaries and how they are regulated comply with what is to be expected from a human rights perspective.
Central aspects are the analyses of the human rights and legal status framework that apply to restrictions on freedom in residential ...
The potential of insects as novel protein source in food and feed is gaining increased attention in western countries. Insects are considered as “minilivestock” with potential of being produced more sustainably as compared to traditional livestock and livestock feed ingredients (e.g. soybean meal and fishmeal), while exhibiting equal nutritional qualities. However, little knowledge exists on the endogenous microbiota of industrially reared ...
‘Dwelling, the Conversation Pieces’ is a design driven research that aims at exploring the notion of 'dwelling' by
means of artefact driven conversations with visual artists, selected for their specific relation with architecture.
Dwelling—both as verb and noun—is a fundamental architectural challenge that never loses its pertinence.
This also explains why a lot of research was already devoted to this subject. (Grima et al., ...
The objective of this sabbatical is to write the book based on the research carried out within the framework of the ERC Starting Grant project ‘We are all Ayotzinapa: the role of digital media in the shaping of transnational memories on disappearance’ (“Digital Memories” / 2016- 2021), which I lead. During the ERC project I focused on writing articles and editing three volumes that have been published (or will appear in the course of next ...
Around 1900, Albert Baertsoen belonged to the top of the Belgian art world. His many city and village landscapes cannot easily be categorised, but his oeuvre is partly related to symbolism. Baertsoen also enjoyed great international renown, as shown, for example, by his painting Dégel à Gand in the Musée d'Orsay.
After the Second World War, he fell somewhat into oblivion. His work and its importance for (Belgian) art history ...