Projects
The domestic city. The organization and decoration of domestic space in fifteenth-and sixteenth- century Antwerp, Bruges and Dijon. University of Antwerp
The IKEA House. An alternative perspective on modern domestic space through commercial home models KU Leuven
An icon of the West, IKEA—the world’s largest furniture retailer—has garnered attention in various academic, pop, and artistic domains, and has also been examined in detail in the fields of economics, semiotics, branding, and marketing. Yet it seems to be still understudied from an architectural perspective; a knowledge-gap addressed by this doctoral research. By examining moments and periods of the company’s history—through literature, ...
Housing the Singles. Models, Policies, and Experimentations in the Italian Domestic Culture and Space, 1930s-50s KU Leuven
The proposed research examines the history of a little-studied housing type that became widespread in the early 20th century: the single-person dwelling. Specifically, it focuses on how this housing type was received in the Italian context and explores the models and representations that emerged through housing projects and domestic interior designs from the 1930s to the 1950s. In the first half of the 20th century, the concept of singleness ...
Early medieval farming communities in northern Francia. Rural settlement, domestic space and material culture from Clovis to the Counts of Flanders. Ghent University
The central objective of the research is to study the daily life, culture and socio-economy of the farming communities living in northern Francia during the Early Middle Ages (ca. AD 450 – ca. AD 1000). This will be tackled using a varied set of archaeological, historical and ecological sources, set in a wider comparative framework. The research will focus on settlement forms, house-building traditions, local domestic ceramics and the ...
Playing in the domestic space - exploring the role of video games in the context of everyday life Ghent University
Using a multi-method approach this project aims to contribute to academic research concerning the use and the role video games play in people's everyday lives. It wil integrate two theories rooted in traditional media usage research: domestication theory and the model of media attendance. To take the dynamic nature of meaning-making into account, longitudinal and cross-sectional research will be performed.
Chronopolitics and domestic architecture: An analysis of public housing in Vienna. KU Leuven
Dwelling, today, is subject to major temporal conflicts. Besides a general acceleration of everyday life, significant shifts in the organization of economic production and social reproduction have impacted the way we spend time at home. While the proliferation of remote work and flexible schedules have relocated wage labor into the domestic sphere, the need for care work is rising in many European countries due to ageing populations and ...
Piloting a raceway reactor for the purple non-sulfur bacteria cultivation on domestic waste streams for the recovery of nutrients and water treatment as resources for food production University of Antwerp
Design of heating and domestic hot water installations (INSTAL 2020) University of Antwerp
New spaces of capital: The Real Estate/Financial Complex in Russia and Poland KU Leuven
English Summary
The state-finance-real estate ‘triangle’ found its most spectacular expression in
2007/8 when the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market caused an economic crisis
of global scale. Yet, even though financial news is full of implicit references to the
interaction between the three dimensions, it rarely explicitly addresses it as issue in
its own right. For this reason, Aalbers (2013b:1) has proposed the ...