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Networked practices of European geoeconomic diplomacy University of Antwerp
Geoeconomics, the strategic utilisation of national wealth to obtain geostrategic objectives, has proven to be an engrained aspect of foreign and security policymaking in the 21st century’s multipolar economic global order. In this dissertation, I challenge the conventional assumption that prosperous states are inevitably well equipped for instrumentalising their economic means of power by examining a dilemma inherent to the geoeconomic ...
A-Place: Linking Places Through Networked Artistic Practices KU Leuven
The purpose of A-Place “Linking places through networked artistic practices”, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme (2019-2023) is to design and implement art-centred placemaking activities in six European cities –Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia– to connect meanings and experiences associated to places across cultural and geographic boundaries. Placemaking activities will be carried out with the ...
Virtuality and Fostering Critical Design Thinking: An Exploration of the Possibilities through Critical Theory, Design Practices and Networked Learning KU Leuven
In this contribution we connect the social turn in architecture practice and education with the innovative possibilities that emerge from the integration of virtual environments (in a broad sense) in design education. We demonstrate the current challenges for architectural education and argue that a critical design attitude will be imperative to tackle the future challenges in architecture. Additionally we claim that critical thinking can be ...
A multimodal model for exploring the material culture of digital networked platforms and their practices University of Antwerp
Foreign reporting and sourcing practices in the network sphere: a quantitative content analysis of the Arab Spring in Flemish news media Ghent University
Exploring emergent practices in Alternative Food Networks: Voedselteams in Belgium KU Leuven
Current sustainability challenges in agro-food networks highlight the need for sustainability transitions in agro-food practices. This paper aims to contribute by analysing how emergent agro-food practices form and develop over time. Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) provide a locus to study how emergent agro-food practices are shaped and to understand the factors that influence how they develop over time. We take a social practices approach to ...
Imitation of management practices In supply networks: Relational and environmental effects Vlerick Business School
This study investigates the imitative use of management practices across a multitier supply network. Although imitation may take the form of any management practice, operationally, we focus on whether the buyer's control practices used with first‐tier suppliers results in similar control practices being used by these first‐tier suppliers with the second‐tier suppliers. Drawing on institutional theory, we identify relational context (i.e., ...
Privacy in location-based social networks: privacy scripts & user practices Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The seamless integration of smartphones in the everyday practices and routines of people is a typical example of the ‘disappearance of media’ (Deuze 2012). Although the actual device is currently still very tangible and visible, it can be defined as the first step in the direction of a world that exists out of Internet- connected objects and people. With the increasing adoption of smartphones, location-based social networks (LBSNs) and platforms ...
Embedding Ecological Networks and Envisioning Agricultural Practices in the Neerpede valley KU Leuven
The development and design of ecological networks in the Brussels Metropolitan Region is hindered by the shortcomings of top-down planning and bottom-up initiatives. One the one hand, technical planning instruments, such as the Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD) (2013) and the Regional Nature Plan (RNP) (2016) tend to reduce ‘ecological’ networks to autonomous ‘green’ frameworks, disconnected from daily practices of local ...