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Researcher
Yves Schoonjans
- Disciplines:Urbanism and regional planning, Design practice
Affiliations
- Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning (Division)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2025 → Today - Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → 31 Jul 2020 - Architecture, Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent Campuses (Research unit)
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From1 Oct 2013 → 31 Jul 2020 - Architecture and Society (Division)
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From1 Jan 2013 → 30 Sep 2013 - Department of Architecture (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2011 → 31 Dec 2012
Projects
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- Study of the urban, social and economic development potential of the area between the Port of Asunción and Itá Pytá Punta. Reflections and proposals from urban design and planning. (FADA, Asuncion)From1 Feb 2024 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Developing strategies in urban resilience for the vulnerable neighborhoods -the "old Los Pozos" & "old La Ramada" market sectors- in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (with prof. H. Limpias, UPSA, Bolivia)From1 Jul 2020 → 1 Feb 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Proof of Concept for the Solidary Mobile Housing Co-Creation Model and the Realized Housing Prototype (PoC SMH)From1 Apr 2020 → 30 Nov 2021Funding: Brussels Capital Region
- Upgrading Informal Settlements by the Co-production of Inclusive Public Spaces: urban design strategies for sustainable and resilient development in informal neighborhoods in Guayaquil, Ecuador.From1 Jan 2020 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: VLIR-UOS South Initiatives
- Transformation of collective spaces in an interstitial informal settlement: the case of Mlalakuwa-Dar es salaam - TanzaniaFrom3 Oct 2019 → 29 Sep 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Collective Spaces in Workers’ Villages in Northeast China: A Critical Socio-spatial Analysis of the Village of Powers in HarbinFrom1 Oct 2019 → 3 Jul 2024Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Spatial strategies for resilient development in changing small towns of the Global South - Empowering the local communities in Samaipata, Bolivia (promotors Yves Schoonjans & Ignacio Galan (KU Leuven, Belgium) & Victor Hugo Limpias (UPSA, Bolivia)From1 Jul 2019 → 1 Feb 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Local identity and change – architectural and urban challenges in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia – the case of Cabañas del Rio Pirai. (with prof. dr. Victor Hugo Limpias (Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, (UPSA) Bolivia)From1 Jul 2019 → 1 Feb 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- INHABIT THE RUIN: Insights on regeneration of depopulated villages in the Altoaragonese Pyrenees. Intervention strategies for transformation and revival of architectural and immaterial legacy.From15 Nov 2018 → 5 Jul 2024Funding: FWO fellowships, BOF - Doctoral projects, BOF - doctoral mandates
- Increasing socio-spatial resilience through temporary appropriation of urban waiting spaces for housing: a Participatory Action Research on the Solidary Mobile Housing project in BrusselsFrom16 Oct 2018 → 19 Apr 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
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- Uncovering informal urbanisation process in the city of Dar es Salaam: tracing from the colonial regime(2025)Published in: Planning PerspectivesISSN: 0266-5433Issue: 4Volume: 40Pages: 1037 - 1059
- (Re) Making Collective Spaces. A Socio-spatial Exploration of the Appropriation of Collective Spaces in Guayaquil's Barrios Populares(2024)
- Insights into the (Re)production of Public Spaces through Socio-Spatial Appropriation in Informal Settlements: Case Studies from Lahore, Pakistan.(2024)
- (Re)occupy the ruin. Unveiling the capacity of vernacular heritage for the regeneration of depopulated settlements in mountain territories under transformation. A study case of the Spanish Central Pyrenees.(2024)
- Tiexi Workers’ Village: shaping collective life in socialist China from the 1950s to the 1970s(2024)Published in: Planning PerspectivesISSN: 0266-5433Issue: 4Volume: 39Pages: 1 - 18
- Collective Spaces in Workers’ Villages in Northeast China: A Critical Socio-spatial Analysis of the Village of Powers in Harbin(2024)
- Consideraciones sobre diseño participativo y coproducción en barrios informales a partir del proyecto SURLab(2024)Pages: 251 - 271
- Mapping temporary appropriations in the streets of Guayaquil's informal neighbourhoods(2024)Pages: 531 - 547Number of pages: 17
- The emergence and evolution of workers' villages in early New China(2024)Published in: Planning PerspectivesISSN: 0266-5433Issue: 1Volume: 39Pages: 153 - 177
- Streetscapes as Collective Spaces in Dar es Salaam's Informal Settlements(2024)Published in: In_Bo : Ricerche e Progetti per il Territorio, la Città e l'ArchitetturaISSN: 2036-1602Issue: 7Volume: 15