Projects
Little Flanders beyond Wales. A landscape archaeological contribution to the discussion of Flemish influence on settlement landscapes in the British Isles. Ghent University
Around 1107, Flemings moved to Wales to plant settlements with striking similarities to those in Flanders. This research will use a cross-disciplinary landscape archeological approach to understand how Flemish planning traditions were modified in response to traditions and environments outside Flanders. For the first time, the emigration out of medieval Flanders will be studied in an archeological and landscape perspective.
Water in urbanised landscapes. Integrating civil engineering and urban design approaches in regional landscape development projects. Hasselt University
Painting/Mapping the Medieval Landscape. A Landscape-archaeological analysis of the medieval landscape around Bruges as depicted by Pieter Pourbus Ghent University
During the Middle Ages, the metropolis of Bruges thrived through its oversea trade. A large tidal inlet – called Zwin – provided a navigable passage from the North Sea, through the wetlands, to heart of the city. In the middle of the 16th century, the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) transformed the Zwin area from an axis of trade into a frontline of war. Of course, this had a profound impact on the environment. At the start of this sudden ...
The migrating landscape. A diachronic research on the representation and creation of landscape through botanical exchanges between Patagonia and Europe. KU Leuven
This project takes a diachronic approach to the construction of landscapes – and their artistic and scientific representations - through processes of botanical exchange between Patagonia, where I was born, and Europe, where I live now. The starting point is the Araucaria, an ancient Patagonian tree, intimately related to the natives. First, it was brought to Europe in the late 18th century where it emerged in botanical gardens and bourgeois ...
Painting/Mapping the Medieval Landscape. A Landscape-archaeological analysis of the medieval landscape around Bruges as depicted by Pieter Pourbus Ghent University
Aortic dissection is a local tear in the aortic wall that leads to a parallel blood flow within the wall, a so-called “false lumen”. The disease is asymptomatic and may result in sudden death if the degraded aortic wall ruptures. Recently, we used high resolution synchrotron imaging to demonstrate that small side branches play an important role in the initiation and propagation of aortic dissections in mice. These findings were confirmed in ...
Quantifying the impact of climate and tectonic gradients on landscape evolution across timescales: Explicit integration of cosmogenic radio nuclide and thermochronometric data in numerical landscape evolution models. KU Leuven
The evolution of the earth surface holds clues on the interaction between uplift and climate. Uplift builds topography and climate mediates erosion processes that break topography down. However, reconstructing earth surface evolution is far from evident given the large spatial and temporal timescales at play. Technological innovations now allow to measure erosion rates at different timescales. Nonetheless, these observations are typically ...
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 ...