Projects
For a More Humane World: Sculpture and Technology in Belgium, 1955-1985 Ghent University
The relation between postwar art and technology is widely considered in terms of progress, optimism, and prosperity. This project sets forth to re-examine postwar art and technology in more subtle and complex ways. Its ambition is to analyze postwar sculpture in Belgium in its unique engagement with the rise and fall of techno-optimism, showing how three successive generations of artists reflected upon technology—its values, vicissitudes, and ...
Model as Sculpture. Architectural representations in the realm of the visual arts: 1970-2000 Ghent University
This research project explores the status and meaning of the architectural model within the realm of the visual arts (1970-2000). The aim is to define its modus operandi as a type of sculpture and to describe its complex position within the inter-related yet fundamentally shifting domains of art and architecture in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
In search of a national (s)cul(p)ture. Belgian sculptors abroad and foreign sculptors in Belgium (c. 1815-1916) Ghent University
This project researches the social and cultural phenomenon of transnational exchange and
nationals ‘schools’ in the 19th century, via the less studied field of sculpture, and with Belgium
as a case. Importance is paid to the reciprocity of the exchanges: the presence and reception
of Belgian sculptors abroad, as well as the sojourns and exhibiting of foreign sculptors in
Belgium.
Culture, Ageing & Design: Integrating culture and wellbeing in housing design theories for old age (CAD-project) Hasselt University
Safeguarding Russian culture as a cultural reality or as a cultural construct? The newsmagazine ‘Illustrated Russia’ and Russian émigré culture in interwar Europe. Ghent University
This project will study the mainstream Russian émigré newsmagazine, Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (1924-1939), as a test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture first and foremost aspired to safeguard ‘truly’ Russian culture and, hence, identity. Does this assumption hold for the émigré culture as a whole or does it relate to high culture alone?
Applications, needs and models for broadband in arts & culture - workpackage 2: needs for broadband in arts & culture Ghent University
An inventory of the needs of institutions for arts & culture regarding ICT and broadbandapplications. The research contains a large survey with data from a wide range of institutions like libraries, institutions for cultural heritage, youth organisations etc.
A Belgian artist in Italy: Italian Art History and Culture in the work of Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018) Ghent University
This research will investigate the artistic, intellectual and institutional interaction between the Italian and Belgian art scene during the 1980s and 1990s. This broader exchange will be analysed through a profound study of the artist Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018). To this end, underexposed aspects of Belgian and Italian art of the last quarter of the 20th century will be reassessed.
A New Framework to Improve Traffic Safety Culture in the EU KU Leuven
Clinical Tissue and Cell Culture core Ghent University
CORE CTC² has a main goal to provide and centralize all relevant basic equipment and expertise within the domain of tissue and cell culture of human origin (or animal models representing human disease).