Projects
The Digital Public Space Research Network (DPSRN) KU Leuven
The project explores how the digitization of the public space obliges us to revise our notions of individual and collective agency. In particular, DPSRN responds to this question by bringing together early career researchers with expertise in different fields to: (1) develop a novel methodology for understanding the public space that incorporates non-linguistic media, particularly the role of the audiovisual and digital interfaces in the ...
Research into the relationship between the presence of clean space and health with specific attention to the use of human biomonitoring and spatial aspects Hasselt University
Design with/for trust; Design research into platforms for sustainable learning on how to share space in more caring ways (working title) Hasselt University
"¡Daniel y Somoza, Son la Misma Cosa!" A Qualitative Research on the Role of Memory and Space in Cross-Generational Resistance to Autocracy in Nicaragua. University of Antwerp
Research into the legal and/or financial causes of unreasonable use of space University of Antwerp
"¡Daniel y Somoza, Son la Misma Cosa!" A Qualitative Research on the Role of Memory and Space in Cross-Generational Resistance to Autocracy in Nicaragua. Ghent University
In 2018, mass protests in Nicaragua were met with repression and lethal violence by the Ortega government. To many, this resembled the darkest hours of the Somoza dictatorship (1936-1979), comparing or equating both regimes with each other and the struggles against them. This PhD project examines the role of memory and space in cross-generational resistance to autocracy in Nicaragua. Scholars in the fields of autocratization have conducted ...
Dissensus and Connection as Artistic Tactics. A research on visual arts as a space for political subjectification KU Leuven
My PhD project aims to shed light on tactics of 1/dissensus and 2/connection. Doing so, it wants to contribute to the development of different democratising spaces of showing and togetherness. My starting point is the observation of e.g. Isabell Lorey that our late capitalistic society is governed through precarity and individualisation. The purpose of my research is to refine the discourse of the arts utility by investigating its ...
Expert Commission LABO Space Urban system coast - research by design of transformations of the built environment in the coastal area University of Antwerp
Policy Research Centre for Housing and Space Ghent University
The "Mobility" section is a part of the Flemish "Policy Research Centre for Housing and Space". The basic research aims at the analysis and understanding of mutual relationships between mobility and infrastructural dyanmics and spatial developments. This applies to both social and economic aspects of mobility. The goal is to grasp the impact of spatial trends, developments and transformations in the field of mobitlity and infrastructure on ...