Title Promoter Affiliations Abstract "DR_SOM ANTWERP; international research seminar on methodology in design research" "Johan De Walsche" "Henry van de Velde" "DR_SOM (Design Research, Series on Method) is a series of international research seminars, exploring the development of valid methodologies in architectural design research. Through the analysis of best-practices, PhD-researchers and experts are brought together. The organization of the seminar in Antwerp is positioning the young research group Henry van de Velde as an active participant in the international research network ARENA." "Design with/for trust; Design research into platforms for sustainable learning on how to share space in more caring ways (working title)" "Liesbeth HUYBRECHTS" ArcK "The public space - the street - belongs to all of us. However, during the last century, in many European cities, the mobility system, and more specifically the dominance of the car, has gradually reduced and divided the space for people literally, but also figuratively. There exists a growing uncertainty and disagreement about how to deal with the complex challenge of increasingly busy car roads: their economic and functional necessity is weighed against their disadvantages for social cohesion and ecological balance (Illich, 1974; Gehl, 2010, Verkade, 2020). Within the context of the complex North-South Limburg project (Studio NZL, 2019), which focuses on the redesign process of a very busy and important regional connection in a rather rural part of Flanders, called Limburg, we question the current mobility system as something that for years has ""divided"" the community and its politics by rediscovering it as a shared space. We are developing a platform-methodology based on what connects us. In this context, we decide not to start from what divides people, but examines ""sharing"" as a stepping stone for a sustainable mobility transition. We questioned the current mobility system as something that ""divides"" by learning together about mobility and its interactions with everyday life: how do we think about mobility and its interaction and how do we want to shape it. By researching together ""what we share"" (Huybrechts, Palimieri and Devisch, 2018), we build on a tradition of participatory design research that looks at ""commons"" (Berlant, 2016; Gil and Baldwin, 2014; Marttila, Botero, & Saad- Sulonen, 2014; Seravalli, 2014; Teli, 2019) and ""partial economies"" (Avram, Choi, De Paoli, Light, Lyle, & Teli, 2017). Today, a participatory process is often a ""moment of alignment and knowledge exchange"". The question is whether such a process today should or could not do more? On a methodical level, we say that, in an increasingly uncertain world, a spatial process should provide a home - a ""Platform"" - where closer, more caring connections can be made between people to create stronger and learning communities with confidence in each other and for the future. On a thematic level, we say that if we approach mobility and the street as a theme we share, it opens a new dimension of living together. In general, we can decide that this platform-methodology provides both methodological and thematic guidance through the collaborative learning of future-oriented skills in shaping space in increasingly uncertain circumstances." "Deception by design. Characteristics and acceptability of research strategies that intentionally mislead research participants" "Pascal Borry" "Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Parenting and Special Education, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski" "Research strategies that purposefully mislead research participants have been used for a long time. Although methodologies that use deception in their design could potentially increase relevant scientific knowledge in a huge number of areas, there is a lack of understanding about the conditions under which such a methodology is justified and a lack of clarity about what constitutes an appropriate context in which research participants can be deceived. Therefore, the use of deception in research studies has been heavily criticized because of ethical concerns regarding its use; because of the lack of proper informed consent and the fact of misleading the participant to the real purpose of the study. More recently, the development of the General Data Protection Regulation challenges the use of deception even more.Therefore, the general aims of our research are (a) to provide a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of research in which deception is being used, (b) to articulate more clearly conditions under such research is justified and (c) to develop ethical safeguards and conditions under which such a study could take place. The proposed research is important as there is a lack of understanding about the conditions under which deception in a research design might be justified and a lack of clarity about what constitutes an appropriate context in which research participants could potentially be deceived.This project will allow (1) to systematically identify research studies that used deception; (2) to investigate the experiences of researchers who have used a methodology in which deception was used; and (3) to systematically map research ethics guidelines and recommendations in order to analyse to what extent and the ways in which recommendations deal with the use of deception in research. The research activities developed in this proposal will lead to the development of further research activities in this area. The planned research activities and the active role of the research team in ethics committees will lead to the development of policy recommendation that will guide future research projects that want to integrate deception within the design of the study, and will provide useful instruments for research ethics committees to assess such research protocols." "Design of research, educational and communication strategy and activities with three field research stations" "Natalie BEENAERTS" "McGill University, Environmental Biology" "The Research Council of Hasselt University approved your application of a stay at Gault Field Station & Montana Field Station, Canada. During this stay, you will perform research in cooperation with prof. dr. David Maneli, Gault Field Station & Montana Field Station, Canada)." "A new look at estates: design research with a focus on shared ownership" "Glenn Deliège" "Futures through Design" "Within this research, we explore how fostering shared ownership through co-design can be a tool for returning estates to the center of cultural and material production. Indeed, co-design as a design methodology is highly suitable for mapping and activating the networks of human and non-human actors. Unfortunately, knowledge of and expertise in this method is still too fragmented across design disciplines. By having designers from landscape design, interior design and digital design work together within this research project, a unique opportunity arises to further build up this knowledge and expertise through the practical application on concrete estates. The research project thus aims to make a concrete contribution both to the revitalization of the 'estate model' and to a change in mentality in design practice, focusing more on (im)material, process-related results in terms of attitude and behavioral changes." "Improving legibility research through parametric typeface design" "Ann BESSEMANS" "Centre for Statistics, Media, Arts and Design, IAUV University of Venice" "This project investigates how fonts can be parametrically decomposed, and how to employ this technique in the production of test materials within legibility research. Producing high-quality controlled font designs by means of parametric design allows future legibility research to better control two critical aspects of the experimental method: isolating causal factors and avoiding confounding variables. Legibility research has a wide range of important applications, such as effective signage, sensitive information on medical and food packaging, improving reading material for specific reading audiences (i.e., visually impaired readers, dyslexics). Yet current legibility research struggles with the question of exactly which typographic variables affect reading. Introducing design parameters that can be isolated and manipulated independently is the solution, but is often a timeconsuming task for designers and, above all, not for the scientist without design skills. This research hypothesizes that fonts can be designed parametrically in an accessible way by controlling them digitally (within a tool). Applying this technique within legibility research allows the impact of specific variables to be determined more precisely." "Re-reading Form through the Agency of the Joint. The Archaeological Attitude of Design Driven Research" "Gennaro Postiglione, Jo Van Den Berghe" "Architecture and Design" "Can the study of the material's identity, the detail, and the binding—reciprocal dependence between things be observed as a point of onset, rather than of arrival, for architectural analysis and design?Can the systematic questioning of relations of secondness, material and formal joints between elements, parts and fragments of a work become its structuring artifice, the red thread that orients its technical and expressive consistency, its tendency towards a whole?What strategies make it possible to adhere to principles of coherence and necessity, balance between parts, in projects that adopt fragmentation as a design principle, programmatically renouncing abstract schematisms in favour of empirical research processes?In a circular trajectory, typical of the flow of time that characterises artistic practices, this research starts from a reconnaissance on design to then proceed through it, be guided by it, find coincidence between researcher and author, thus situate his work within a tradition. Starting from the interpretative re-reading of works by architects of the so-called 'other' modernity, by formulating a rigorous method of critical investigation, this thesis rediscovers in their realisations a form of tacit knowledge, a way of interpreting the potential of each material and design, by successive stratifications, by fragments, an idea of unity.First through participant observation, then by design actions, through variation and the project of the new, this exploration formulates an excavation within an open strand of the architectural discipline, providing the reader with a field of findings as the result of a philosophical archaeology, a regression made to look forward, an act of passionate criticism. On these grounds, the research develops the proposal of a palimpsest for a design practice, as an attitude rather than a method, an open matrix on which it is possible to operate continuous rewritings, identifying a profound link between peculiar design strategies and drawing tools, and revealing their deep intertwining, their reciprocal agency.Moving from the design of a material-based economy, and of a particular type of tectonic readability, the research tests the potential of the architectural joint as ordering principle, the possibility of incorporating intentions into each fragment, and offering, as a gesture, their knowability to the dweller. Through the design of a pensatoio, a 'place for reflection' within the research and, at the same time, a fragment of the interiority of the researcher, it demonstrates how certain ways of making architecture, certain design-thinking strategies, are always closely intertwined with ways of working through drawing, with the relations we establish between its scale and our body.In a passionate and partisan form, the research uses subjectivity as a key to access a more profound level of awareness, reconstructing then, through exemplification, the site of a problematic discourse. It does so to offer a new, manifold contribution of knowledge to the field of architectural research, suggesting possible transformations—from within. It does so to offer architecture students, researchers and practitioners, the passionate reader, the tools to build their own research attitude, their own reflective practice, intimate but never self-referential, rooted in iterative processes of study, exercise, observation and review." "RESEARCH BY DESIGN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Exploring a more equitable and livable urbanism in the face of the 21st century urban crises" "Els Vervloesem" "Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning" "RESEARCH BY DESIGN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Exploring a more equitable and livable urbanism in the face of the 21st century urban crisesVarious 21st century global challenges manifest themselves as complex socio-spatial issues. Climate change, qualitative and affordable housing, renewable energy, sustainable mobility, and access to health and social care are amongst the great challenges that affect and are impacted by the way the urban environment is planned and built. However, in the slipstream of urban crises a lot of interconnected social justice issues appear on the surface, often in an intensified form. In the face of these urban and societal challenges, there is a growing interest in research by design. How can research by design be used for the common good and contribute to social justice? The future-oriented character and imaginative power of research by design can potentially contribute greatly to political and societal transformation processes in a wide variety of contexts. In addition to the adoption in government-led spatial planning processes, research by design finds its way into cultural, educational, professional, and organized civil society settings. However, to incorporate social justice as an essential component of research by design, remains a major challenge. Therefore, it is an important task to further strengthen and deepen the knowledge and expertise in this field. In response to the above challenges, the research project consists of three interrelated tracks:1. Socio-Spatial Mapping as a Catalyst for Change in Times of Crisis. The aim of this track is to improve the understanding of the way simultaneous urban crises manifest themselves in interconnected ways in the urban environment, paying close attention to the social justice dimension, making use of the creative (visualization and other) methods and tools of research by design; 2. Research by Design as a Leverage for Transformative Policy and Co-creation Processes. Within this track, the aim is to gain a better insight in the ways research by design can be embedded more pro-actively, consciously, and continuously in complex transformation processes that are related to the creation of socially just cities;3. The Role of Research by Design in Participatory Action-Research. Learning-by-doing is central in the last track, by initiating and taking part in participatory action-research with a strong focus on spatial and social justice, the aim is to build bridges between research, education, and practice. " "Black Yarns: A Decolonial Research into the History of Black Women's Fashion & Jewellery. Design Practices in France (1939-1966)." "Kathleen Gyssels" "Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)" "This research aims to reveal a decolonial critique of fashion museology by sharing genealogies of black women designers between 1939 and 1966. In it I reflect on the absence of black women designers in contemporary fashion history in France and Europe coming from my French/Ivorian designer-researcher background. I want to restore missing narratives by re-editing archival garments and jewellery, potentially reattributing designs to their owners by publishing a research book of portraits and photographs including restored pieces. Creating archives, crafting garments issued from collective fashion memory will help fill the blanks using speculation and fictions based on black women who played a role in fashion between France and Senegal. The artistic context is rewriting history through designing following artist Fabiola Jean-Louis. The theoretical context is decoloniality and Senegalese/French fashion histories. The period (1939-1966) delimits Rabi Diop's photographs arriving in Paris and the ""Festival des Arts nègres"" initiated by Léopold Sédar Senghor in Dakar. My methodology is based on critical fabulation, using imagination to connect with the past. The goal is to contribute to the decolonization of contemporary fashion history by acknowledging and re-creating a denied black fashion genealogy with contemporary fashion in France to propose new creative routes against eurocentric institutional universalism." "Social-spatial and design research on the meaning liveability and development opportunities for children and teenagers in the context of high-rise buildings" "Sven De Visscher" "Futures through Design, eCO-CITY" "A growing group of children and teenagers grow up in one form or another of stacked housing: from large-scale social high-rise buildings to private flats to small-scale cohousing. Yet we have little insight into their experiences regarding the liveability of stacked building environments, the social and spatial experience of their living environment, which also makes it difficult to gain insight into what children and teenagers think are desirable possibilities for development that the environment of stacked buildings should offer. The central objective of this project was to use social-spatial perception research and design research with children and teenagers to gain a better understanding of children's and teenagers' sense of meaning, livability and opportunities for development in different contexts of stacked housing, in order to provide points of focus for designers and social workers to create more supportive and opportunity-rich stacked housing environments. Within the research, we see children and teenagers as fellow citizens. They too are users and shapers of space and thus need to be involved in processes about that space. This shifts the focus from the different needs of different populations to space and its quality as a shared good. The project included several research tracks: (1) Theoretical literature review and practical state-of-the-art around children and stack building; (2) Experiential research with children and teenagers in Europark (Antwerp), Lange Velden (Wondelgem, Ghent) and various bunk building environments in metjesland region. (3) Design research on concrete bunk building environments or planning processes in Ghent (cases Watersportbaan and Lange Velden) with a linked educational track with interdisciplinary educational activities to highlight the theme within courses in social work and landscape and garden architecture."