Projects
Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Research into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies Ghent University
This study focuses on the blurring of the linearity between narration and trauma recovery, which forms the topic of theoretical developments in both transcultural trauma psychology and theatre studies. This interdisciplinary study develops an empirical inquiry into post-narrative modes of a postdramatic aesthetic in applied theatre, aiming to further the understanding of trauma recovery shaped by coping strategies beyond narration.
Theatre society. Vernacular literary culture and the development of an early modern knowledge society in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 Ghent University
Between 1450 and 1650, the world of performative literature became the centre of a Western European media system. Performative literature also became a model for the public organization and communication of knowledge. This project studies ways in which the institutions, agents, and media of the theatre society of an early modern metropolis (in this case Antwerp) translated and applied knowledge and information.
Theater with the elderly: never too old to create a scene. Research into possible play and theater methods to play and create theater with the elderly in a residential care or day center. AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Accessibility Aesthetics: a participatory inquiry into accessibility for the performing arts. University of Antwerp
Intersecting repertoire towards an inclusive, diverse and representative repertoire AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Design and application of the classification system for the collection of artworks by the Flemish Community Ghent University
classification systems works Designing and applying the classification system for the collection of works by the Flemish Community Vl. Handed. - arts and heritage
Audio Description for the theatre: preparing the stage University of Antwerp
Digital innovation for man and society Ghent University
The IDC “The Digital Human” tackles the societal and ethical challenges of the digitization. The consortium functions as a center of expertise on the long-term effects of digital innovation processes, and cooperates with users, policy makers, law makers, entrepreneurs and the general public to translate its insights to concrete measures for sustainable technological innovation.
A critical analysis of the methodology of evolutionary explanations for the emergence and possible functions of art Ghent University
Since the last couple of decades, cultural and social phenomena such as art, religion, language and morality, are increasingly studied from an evolutionary point of view. However, a number of difficulties arise when a biological theory is applied to this subject matter. The goal of this research, with art as a case study, is to map pitfalls and opportunities, in order to contribute to the study of these phenomena, as well as to the expansion ...