Publicaties
Magnificent Rubbish: An arts-informed research project as a form of response-able pedagogy KU Leuven
‘Magnificent Rubbish’ is an arts-informed research project conducted in a former industrial area on the outskirts of a Belgian city that is now part of a prestigious urban development project. Participating partners in the project were youngsters for whom the connection with school and work appears less evident, researchers, artists and youth workers from a local centre of expertise. The co-creative project invited youngsters to rethink their ...
Vier visies op verandering, effectiviteit en impact. Een denkoefening rond maakleerplek Leuven KU Leuven
Place-Sensing Through Haptic Interfaces: Proposing an Alternative to Modern Sustainability Education KU Leuven
In this article we address the issue of how an instrumental approach to sustainability education dominates the scientific debate of the last 20 years. By conducting interviews and focus group interviews, we have investigated a community arts initiative in the Flemish city of Antwerp in which artists together with local inhabitants engaged in activities around two art installations and address the sustainability of a particular living ...
From Asylum to Post-Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Studying in the Superdiverse City: System_D and the Challenge of Solidarity in Brussels KU Leuven
In recent years, the relation between studying and learning has been a topic of debate. This article is mainly interested in a concept of study practices, conceived of as practices that are strongly engaged with issues of living together in a superdiverse city. Such practices firstly require to think the relation between studying and learning in other-than-oppositional terms, and secondly, to raise questions concerning the political role of ...
Nurturing Solidarity in Diversity. The Superdiverse Shop Floor of Tower Automotive in Ghent KU Leuven
Making Sense of a Changing Neighborhood: Art Students’ Experiences of Place Explored Through a Material-Discursive Analytical Lens KU Leuven
Sensory research approaches are often used to study the relationship between people and their living environment. The type of data collected in such research projects poses analytical challenges. How do we best make sense of a body of visual, auditory, tactile data? And how do such data contribute to our knowing? In this paper, we propose and illustrate an analytical apparatus for studying the complex entanglement of discursive and material ...