Projects
Creating Harmony Between Prosthesis, User and Control Theory Ghent University
Lower limb amputations often severely restrict patients when trying to perform activities of daily living, even when using prostheses. Active lower limb prostheses are a promising alternative to the more common passive prostheses but even those still have significant limitations and shortcomings. This project aims to overcome a number of those limitations and shortcomings through the development of a novel control strategy for active lower ...
Filming memory / Filming my family. Intergenerational trauma and prosthetic memory of WWII in post-Soviet society KU Leuven
This PhD research in the arts analyses the role of documentary cinema in the creation of 'prosthetic memories': the ways in which persons 'remember' events they have not personally experienced. My research focuses on prosthetic memories of WWII in Post-Soviet society through cinema and proposes a novel theoretical and practical framework for researching prosthetic memory through first- person documentaries (films in which the filmmaker's ...