Projects
Ensuring data protection in the smart city: accountability in the data-intense, multi-actor smart city environment KU Leuven
All over the world the phenomenon of cities resorting to Information Technology and data analytics to improve efficiency, security, transport etc. continues to rise. ‘Smart cities’ have the potential to improve quality of life, but also bring along significant risks to the fundamental rights of citizens, especially privacy and data protection. The EU enjoys a comprehensive framework on data protection aimed precisely to protect individuals ...
Development of a city monitor for the city of Halle. KU Leuven
Mapping the Invisible City. Spatial Manifestations of sub-Saharan African Diaspora in the mid-size city in Europe (the case of Belgium). University of Antwerp
Ho Chi Minh City branding towards walkability and children-friendly mobility: A comparative study between on-site survey and virtual reality on how the walkability affects city branding and traffic safety Hasselt University
Deconstruct the city, Create the city - I love science Festival 2019 (ILSF) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In order to find out, we have to analyse and ‘dissect’ the city. Every city consists of different building parts, at different levels, ...
Deconstruct the city, Create the city - I love science Festival 2019 (ILSF) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
To discover this, we need to deconstruct the city. Every city consists of various building blocks and levels, ranging from neighbourhoods, buildings, public spaces and ...
City and change. The City as the object of study in a historical light. University of Antwerp
The early modern city as literary domain: A systematic study of the city encomium and its transformations (ca. 1403–1585), with special reference to multilingual representations of urban spaces. KU Leuven
In the early modern period, laudations of cities became a popular literary genre that developed from a Latin prose genre to a multilingual poetical genre. These ‘city encomia’ have attracted some attention in the last decades, but only on a case study basis, without considering its broader transformations. This project will perform a large-scale, data-driven analysis of the forms and contents of the genre. Firstly, I will build a database of ...