Projects
From sociobiology to urban metabolism: landscape design, ecology and engineering in Belgium (1900-2016). University of Antwerp
Circular Economy Transition in Flanders. An Urban Landscape Design Contribution. KU Leuven
Responding to threatening resource scarcity Flemish policy documents and public tenders increasingly mention ‘circular economy’, turning waste into resources, as a goal. Nevertheless, a clear consensus about what exactly constitutes this circular economy lacks. Going to the core of the issue, resource scarcity will not be solved with endless recycling if (population and therefore) consumption keeps growing. Instead consumption needs to ...
Circular Flanders. Urban landscape design supporting place-based circularity transition. KU Leuven
This research initiates a transdisciplinary research lab for Flemish circular city transition. The methodological basis was developed and tested in FWO funded PhD research “Circular Economy Transition in Flanders. An Urban Landscape Design Contribution” (‘14-‘18). This research further mobilizes urban landscape design as a medium, bridging related disciplines and expertise, such as quantitative modeling and digital resource data management ...
Green Participation. The Sociopolitics of Ecological Landscape Design in the Work of Louis le Roy (1968-2012) KU Leuven
Contemporary design solutions for green infrastructure often come up against a lack of involvement of citizens and citizens' organizations. Moreover, both (ecological) science and design lack the expertise to enable human beings and non-human beings (plants, animals, organic material) to work together in a sustainable way. ‘Green Participation' explores the possibilities and pitfalls of such a possible collaboration from a historical ...
The landscape of ecological infrastructure.A historical-theoretical reflection on technonatural intervention as design strategy. University of Antwerp
Reintegrating Urban Agroecology in the Western Cape - An Urban Design Investigation of Productive Landscape Strategies for a Resilient Cape KU Leuven
Looking at South African cities through the food lens, the high levels of inequality experienced by city dwellers are starkly reflected in the urban food systems and urban environments (SA Urban Food & Farming Trust, 2021). Since two-thirds of households that experience hunger lives in cities, food security is a critical and predominantly urban issue (Haysom et al, 2020). The urban food question requires a holistic perspective on the ...
Actuaries and STatisticians endeavour to design innovative, inclusive insurance products in a changing RISK landscape KU Leuven
Actuaries design and value risk transfers by analyzing insurance data sets with a sophisticated statistical
toolbox. Current practice faces technical challenges in the design and estimation of risk models from finegrained
data. At the same time, trust in modern-day insurance is under pressure. Policyholders and regulators
expect value creation from the collected granular data in the form of better insurance products and a ...
Design and realisation of an automated and online system for the analysis, description and interpretation of research data on the identity of Catholic schools in a pluralising educational landscape. Integration of contentual, technical and ICT components. KU Leuven
Since 2007, a comprehensive research methodology is being developed at the Centre for Academic Teacher Training of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies to assess the philosophical and religious identity of Catholic educational institutes. This is done in collaboration with the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) in Australia. Besides document analysis and interview research, a suite of surveys are being used which can be ...
Emerging Ecologies & Urban Design: Exploring the potential role of alternative relationships between nature and culture in the design of socio-ecological coastal landscapes in the littoral zone of the west coast of Sweden. KU Leuven
Central in the contemporary debate of urban political ecology is a questioning of the hegemonic notion of nature and the relationship between nature and culture (Tzaninis, Mandler, Kaika and Keil 2020). A significant argument in this debate is that the common notion of nature is an aesthetic socio-cultural construct, driven by our cultural heritage and need to understand, relate to and control our environment, that thus, only exists in our ...