Projects
INHABIT THE RUIN: Insights on regeneration of depopulated villages in the Altoaragonese Pyrenees. Intervention strategies for transformation and revival of architectural and immaterial legacy. KU Leuven
Sobrepuerto is a territory at the Spanish Pyrenees which was entirely depopulated in the 1960s due to remoteness, socio-economic outdate and devastating national territorial policies, causing a fast transformation of the landscape, and generating problems of heritage preservation, territorial management and memory loss.
However, regeneration of nature and growth of urban population interest about countryside has triggered the ...
Capturing the unearned increment: urban planning, land value capture and financialization University of Antwerp
(De)radicalization and the multicultural city. Security, urban policy and everyday life in Brussels and Marseille. A comparative study. KU Leuven
Migration, integration and security have been among the major issues of urban governance in European metropolitan centres since the early 19th century and have been the object of various studies. Yet, less attention has been paid to how urban and security policies targeting ‘immigrant neighbourhoods’ in European cities have been transformed in our era of the ‘war on terror’. Taking Brussels and Marseille as our case studies, this project ...
SI4SD | The role of local administrations in Social innovation: a global understanding from the comparative study of Flanders and Madrid KU Leuven
Civil mobilization, civil-public collaboration and multi-actor experimentations are spreading in different geographical contexts as mechanisms through which different urban actors gain a relevant and active role in politics and collaborate to address urban challenges and social needs. This research aims to develop a holistic understanding of how such ongoing mobilization and multi-actor experimentations are being developed, and how they are ...
BELGIAN MOMO HERITAGE ON THE RADAR - Re-reading modernist housing estates: an inquiry into the value of threatened heritage sites and the possibilities of adaptive reuse as a method for re-evaluation Hasselt University
BELGIAN MOMO HERITAGE ON THE RADAR - Re-reading modernist housing estates: an inquiry into the value of threatened heritage sites and the possibilities of adaptive reuse as a method for re-evaluation Hasselt University
Platform Revolution from the Margin: How E-commerce Platforms Transform Peri-urban Spaces in China KU Leuven
E-commerce has grown substantially in China over the past decade, with Chinese digital platform providers becoming serious competitors for western corporations. In this project, I aim to examine the rapid expansion of China’s platform economy and resultant transformations of the country. I will add a sorely-lacking geographical perspective, which will contribute to explaining the role of geography in the development of platform economy and ...
Mapping the Invisible City. Spatial Manifestations of sub-Saharan African Diaspora in the mid-size city in Europe (the case of Belgium). Ghent University
This interdisciplinary research seeks to establish a critical and multi-layered mapping of the processes and products of physical place-making by African diaspora in the mid-sized city in Belgium. The outcome of this research will provide us with essential knowledge on (1) the architecture of everyday spaces of African migration, (2) the transnational exchange of African place-making strategies, and (3) alternative forms of urban ...