Projects
Recently orthopedic surgeons started planning their upcoming surgeries using a 3-D reconstruction of their patients anatomy obtained by CT- or MRI- images. The transfer of this preoperative planning to the actual surgery can be done by using surgical guid KU Leuven
Changing gaze, changing perception: How participatory performative and visual artpractices can empower people with dementia and their caregivers to cope with the condition KU Leuven
This interdisciplinary project derives from social constructionism and symbolic interactionism the idea that the meaning of dementia is socially constructed. The intention is to examine the role of this ‘construction’ on the lived experience of people with dementia (PWD), as is the focus of phenomenological analyses. However, because in these common approaches research is mainly based on spoken language, the project will explore the ...
Changing gaze, changing perception: How participatory performative and visual art-practices can empower people with dementia and their caregivers to cope with the condition KU Leuven
Although dementia is increasingly easy to diagnose, it currently remains a progressive, incurable condition. People with dementia and their social circles have to deal not only with this fatal fact, but also with the taboo surrounding it. The stigmatizing ways in which people with dementia, their loved ones and the broader society perceive dementia are not beneficial to the course of the disease: they even contribute to a worsening of the ...
Changing gaze, changing perception: How participatory performative and visual art-practices can empower people with dementia and their caregivers to cope with the condition KU Leuven
"But they could not read the writing": The Biblical Aramaic consonantal text, its reading tradition and their mutual interaction KU Leuven
Around one percent of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is written in a language that is closely related to Hebrew, known as Biblical Aramaic. Recent research has shown that Biblical Aramaic is not a single language, but a hybrid of at least two varieties of Aramaic. This project will make a state-of-the-art linguistic description of the language varieties making up Biblical Aramaic and investigate how they influenced each other. This will ...
The rise and threat of new psychoactive substances: integrated research to obtain evidence-based information on their properties and actual use. University of Antwerp
Scientific visualisation and visual scientific literacy: a study of new imaging practices and their impact on knowledge building and communication. University of Antwerp
IOF PoC “Wireless system for monitoring the neuromuscular blockade of patients and their vital physiological parameters during surgery, with the extension towards generic wireless monitoring systems of patients.” Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Continuing Exodus KU Leuven
During the centuries of Rabbinic Judaism, there seems to have existed a scholarly interest in interpreting the Exodus from Egypt (Exod 12 and 13-15) not only in order to corroborate rabbinic traditions but also to set the scene for future liberation. This dual purpose fits the narrative of collective deliverance quite well for two reasons: 1) The actual story (Exod 13-15) is preceded by observing the Passover (Exod 12), that is, experiencing ...