Projects
Geologic Architecture and its Landscapes of Extraction Hasselt University
Architecture as reality. Theory, history and criticism of architecture via the work of Geert Bekaert Ghent University
Since the fifties, Geert Bekaert has written consistently and continuously on architecture and the arts. With this research, I want to enlighten the (architectural) theory of Geert Bekaert, by reconstructing it within the international landscape of architecture theory and history. In BekaertU+2019s thinking, architecture is the first and most comprehensive human activity it precedes ideology, politics, aesthetics, economy and philosophy. ...
Pilot Projects Productive Landscape Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The aim of the “Pilot Projects Productive Landscape” (PPPL) program is to support exemplary projects that test in “real time” how agriculture in Flanders can once again become a driving force for an innovative social and spatial evolution. We start from the increasing need for qualitative answers to current and future challenges in open space. Growing population numbers demand an improved food ...
CHERISCAPE: Cultural Heritage in Landscape Ghent University
Spatial Strategies of Self-Representation in the Habsburg Low Countries. The Nobility and the Invention of the Well-Ordered Landscape. KU Leuven
The project aims to study the environment of the non-urban noble residence in the Southern Low Countries, from the advent of Habsburg rule (1482) to the end of the Spanish Period (1712), using insights and methods from landscape architecture, history of landscape/landscape painting, and cartography (Historic GIS, virtual landscape visualisation and modeling). On the one hand, this is a built environment with functional buildings supporting ...
Settling with Waters. A Landscape Urbanism Investigation in the Sabana de Bogotá KU Leuven
In Bogotá, as in other Latin-American cities, housing demand is increasing daily, while the overall housing shortage remains an unresolved problem. Hence, flood prone areas along the Bogotá river are more and more under urbanization pressure, amongst others by low-cost housing projects, while these areas simultaneously are required in view of flooding, which promise to increase with the predictions of climate change. The dissertation ...
Spatial Strategies of Self-Representation in the Habsburg Low Countries. The Nobility and the Invention of the Well-Ordered Landscape KU Leuven
Critical Evaluation of the Role of Historical Landscape Conservation in Sustainable Regional Development: Case of the Royal Gardens of Rajnagar in Bundelkhand KU Leuven
India presently faces the onset of rapid development and change in every part of the country. Although the current GDP of 7.9% (Trading Economics 2016) shows positive trends, these indicators are often based on standards and indicators which focus very heavily on only the economic output of the country as per the Neo- Classical model of Economics (Czech 2010). The indicators tend to ignore the significance of the cultural, social and natural ...
Circular Economy Transition in Flanders. An Urban Landscape Design Contribution. KU Leuven
Responding to threatening resource scarcity Flemish policy documents and public tenders increasingly mention ‘circular economy’, turning waste into resources, as a goal. Nevertheless, a clear consensus about what exactly constitutes this circular economy lacks. Going to the core of the issue, resource scarcity will not be solved with endless recycling if (population and therefore) consumption keeps growing. Instead consumption needs to ...