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Built Heritage as Imagines Agentes KU Leuven
In this paper we seek to investigate the concept of built heritage as Imagines Agentes whereby built heritage functions as a generating force in the process of appropriation towards belonging. Heritage places as meaningful locations can form a bridge linking the past to the future in a sensitive way. Accessing a local community’s connections to their surrounding environment and recognising and acknowledging the role that built heritage plays ...
Embodying local identity as heritage in transition The case study of Onitsha markets, Nigeria KU Leuven
A narrative approach to collective spaces urban analysis and the empowerment of local voices KU Leuven
Narrative Approaches for Collective Spaces: updating analysis methods and empowering local voices in urban projects KU Leuven
Urban Projects, Collective Spaces & Local Identities (KU Leuven) is a transdisciplinary research group (working in the field of architecture, urban design, urbanism, heritage practice and history and theory of architecture and urbanism) that seeks to produce insights and pronounce a critical discourse on the reading, making and transformation of the changing collective spaces in contemporary landscapes. The research projects of the group ...
The collective use of private ground. Negotiating Everyday Vicinity in Boom (Flanders) KU Leuven
A fast territorial transformation is occurring under polarizing and accelerating processes of urban concentration and depopulation, of economic development and decline. This is strongly impacting local communities around the world, changing the way people live and use collective spaces. These global challenges become even more visible in post-situation areas such as post-industrial, post-traumatic and peri-urban areas, where the collectively ...
A Rambling field role for the Heritage Practitioner: A means to come to more socially sustainable heritage (re-)development projects KU Leuven
This chapter aims at demonstrating that with a different approach in architectural pedagogies and heritage practices we can come to more socially sustainable heritage (re-) development projects. The here presented three-step methodology of Interactive Walking challenges the traditional material-focused view, nudging it towards a more anthropological perspective by directing attention primarily at the voiceless – that is, the “people overlooked ...