Projects
To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp
Streetscape Territories: the relationship between buildings and their environment with the street. KU Leuven
Streetscape Territories is the name given to an international research and design project that deals with the way buildings and properties are related to streets and how their inhabitants can give meaning to them. The research project aims at studying and developing urban projects in an international context, part of different cultures and social networks, focusing on the territorial organization of streetscapes. Streetscape Territories deals ...
Shaping Social Commitment. Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and '80s KU Leuven
The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s?
To this aim, the notion of ‘architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ‘architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ...
The Thermal Geography of Cities: Using Remote Sensing to Analyze Urban Morphology and Heat Islands Ghent University
Increasing global urbanisation and anthropogenic warming contribute to the development of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs). UHIs pose significant challenges to the well-being and health of city residents, amplifying heat stress and exacerbating energy demands.
This research aims to employ remote sensing data for multi-scale mapping of urban morphology and to investigate its interrelationship with UHI. By utilizing multi-source remote sensing ...
A multi-method investigation of the urban impact on precipitation Ghent University
Our planet is highly urbanised and cities impact the atmosphere. This impact is not limited to increased temperatures, but studies also show an impact on precipitation. On average an increase in precipitation is found over and downwind of cities. Given that climate change leads to an increased frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation, it is important to clarify this urban impact on precipitation. Due to the nonlinearity of the ...
Young people let the city emerge. Shifting meanings of responsibility and accountability in new urban governance HOGENT
The role of knowledge and recognition in promoting just flood risk management in Flanders and abroad. University of Antwerp
Agent-based urban freight modelling KU Leuven
Animal Cognition in Urban Environments: The effect of diet and the gut microbiome Ghent University
Natural habitats are disappearing at record speeds, and our world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Recently, researchers started exploring how cognitive abilities (the mechanisms by which animals acquire, process, store and act on information from the environment) may allow animals to adapt to urban environments. Many of these studies revealed cognitive differences between
urban and non-urban dwelling animals and linked these to ...