Projects
(Re)Writing history in early modern Mechelen: genesis of text and gradations of authorship in an urban chronicle tradition. University of Antwerp
Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History Ghent University
Since 1985, Construction History is internationally recognized as a distinct field within history, situated on the interface between the history of engineering and the history of architecture. Antoine Picon, historian of architecture and technology, argued in 2006 that construction history “offers a unique opportunity to rethink the relations between technology and culture." This proposal starts from the observation that this opportunity has ...
“Tout le Congo est un chantier”. Re-assessing Congo’s architectural history from 1918 till 1975 through a construction history approach Ghent University
Ever since the first article on colonial architecture in Congo appeared in 1986, a substantial amount of research has been conducted on the topic, focusing on late 19th century prefabricated metal structures, on the introduction of modernist ideas in design and planning since the 1920s, on the emergence of 1950s tropical modernism and more recently, on “nation building”-campaigns under Mobutu’s reign. Over the years, the perspective of ...
PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS AND DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR URBAN REGENERATION International Laboratory for Architecture & Urban Design (1976- 2015) Hasselt University
Rural and small urban populations in the Low Countries and North-Western Europe (12th-18th century) - the profile of agrarian inhabitants and urban lower class communities, primarily based on existing and new osteological analyses Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The eastern urban periphery of Sagalassos. A chronological, functional and socio-economic study of an under-studied ancient urban phenomenon. KU Leuven
CORN- Comparative Rural History Network University of Antwerp
Multilingual encounters in the late medieval town. Rewriting history in multilingual social and political contexts in late medieval Flanders and Brabant (1380-1500) Ghent University
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The Burgundian Low Countries were multilingual in their speaking and writing culture. So far, literary and historical scholarship has been rather one-dimensional in its approach towards multilingualism in literature, focusing predominantly on place or cultural ...
Constructing transport architecture in West Africa. A multi-scalar history of materialities, territories and actors (CTRAAF) Ghent University
The proposed project follows genealogies, materialisations and legacies of various forms of transport architecture, mainly from the 1950s to 1980s, in order to investigate how imaginaries of infrastructural projects were turned into transport architecture, i.e., how transport architecture actually materialised in West Africa across scales, from the local and site specific to the territorial, and who had agency in this. With the intention to ...