Projects
Living (at) Home. On Older People’s making of Home and Dignity KU Leuven
In Belgium, as elsewhere, the proportion of older people among the population steadily increases. This demographic evolution gives rise to a lot of discussions, in particular in relation to eldercare and its expenditures. How should societies handle the question of eldercare? Across Europe and North America, the dominant answer is the ageing-in-place paradigm. This paradigm meets the wishes of most older people, who overwhelmingly express the ...
Art as a trigger of sustainable change and sustainability as a framework for change in art KU Leuven
Marriage markets, household consumption and individual welfare KU Leuven
Begging and homelessness in the Brussels Capital Region: the intersection between multidimensional deprivation and (in)visibility KU Leuven
INSIGHTS ON THE RECONFIGURATION OF FRAGILE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS DEFINED BY CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DECLINE. The case of Coney Island Creek, New York. KU Leuven
At first sight, cities are accumulations of the tangible, the perceivable and the more static: buildings and streets, infrastructures and waterways, houses and schools and parks and supermarkets. But cities worldwide are simultaneously under constant pressure from an intangible discourse, from changes caused by shocks and stresses, which require them to respond and adapt in a resilient way. These shocks and stresses can result from ...
Coping with Urban Overtourism in Europe: EU Law as a Facilitator or an Impediment? University of Antwerp
GROUNDED. CLT as a model for equitable and sustainable living? HOGENT
Building on the edge. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the north-western edge of the Roman Empire Ghent University
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point in the history of the region and reveals how native inhabitants were engaging with the Roman cultural sphere. This project investigates an understudied corpus of rural stone ...