Projects
Blurring the lines between materials design and structural design: Advanced microstructural design of structural fibre-reinforced composites. KU Leuven
Many breakthroughs in traditional materials have been achieved through time-consuming and expensive trial-and-error. To develop the next generation of lightweight composites, a paradigm shift is needed to catalyse their adoption in industry and address current drawbacks. Rather than accepting that the microstructure is a consequence of the manufacturing process, I envision that we should aim to design the microstructure to optimally satisfy ...
Emerging Ecologies & Urban Design: Exploring the potential role of alternative relationships between nature and culture in the design of socio-ecological coastal landscapes in the littoral zone of the west coast of Sweden. KU Leuven
Central in the contemporary debate of urban political ecology is a questioning of the hegemonic notion of nature and the relationship between nature and culture (Tzaninis, Mandler, Kaika and Keil 2020). A significant argument in this debate is that the common notion of nature is an aesthetic socio-cultural construct, driven by our cultural heritage and need to understand, relate to and control our environment, that thus, only exists in our ...
Culture, Ageing & Design: Integrating culture and wellbeing in housing design theories for old age (CAD-project) Hasselt University
Responsible Design: conscious, ecological, ethical and inclusive design AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Towards an animal-inclusive design in the Brussels Capital Region. A cartographic and disign exploration into non-human agency. KU Leuven
This research results in the CO-HABITATatlas that envisions future pathways for co-habitation in the Brussels Capital Region and contributes to an disciplinary renewal, introducing knowledge and concepts of ecology into urban planning, policies and design. By including different experts, organisations, administrations and students,as well as focussing on representation, the project aims to contribute to a larger societal discussion on the ...
Mechanisms of Gamma-Secretase Modulators, towards rational drug design: Mechanisms of Gamma-Secretase Modulators, towards rational drug design Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Designer centric computational design synthesis. KU Leuven
The project aims at enhancing CDS methods and prototype tools to support (i) the identification of the most influential design parameters in the conceptual design phase of mechatronic systems, (ii) computationally efficient robust optimization (taking into account uncertainties – both on parameters of the system under design as on parameters of systems interacting with the system under design; as well as model approximations) leading to a set ...
Study, proof-conservation and crowd-funding design concerning an Art Nouveau stained-glass light, originally from Hotel Cousin, Brussels, designed by Victor Horta. University of Antwerp
Safety by natural design: benign bisphenols from biomass KU Leuven
Synthetic polymers are crucial in maintenance of our high standard of living. While delivering many benefits, our current plastics economy has also led to one of the greatest environmental scourges of our time. Plastic pollution is now widespread and leads to substantial chemical exposure to humans and the environment. Within this context, especially endocrine-disrupting chemicals with high production volumes, such as bisphenols, are a major ...