Publicaties
Challenging the Master Narrative on Large-Scale Social Estates Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The challenging and reframing of dominant narratives have been recognized as crucial to the regeneration of stigmatized areas. This article builds upon a digital storytelling process in the social estate of Peterbos, Brussels, to investigate how the counterstories of inhabitants challenge the “master narrative.” The counterstories foreground the spatial agency of tenants, the (dis)enabling role of space, and the difficult relationship with ...
Institutional ethnography: a transformative mode of inquiry in the renovation of a Brussels high-rise housing estate Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Confusing the Spatial with the Social: Can Ethnography Offer a Way Out? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Naar een nieuwe decommodificatie van het wonen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleidooi voor een doordacht ruimtelijk woningrenovatiebeleid als onderdeel van de post-COVID economische relance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
‘Designing’ commons: exploring interplays between commons, space and spatial design Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the commons debate engaging with space and spatial design by analysing community-based design processes in two housing commons institutions in Brussels. Based on a literature review and an action research in a Community Land Trust housing project and a public space regeneration project in a housing cooperative, I argue that spatial designers can play an important role in commoning by empowering ...
Reproducing housing commons. Government involvement and differential commoning in a housing cooperative Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Energy transition in the nebular city: connecting transition thinking, metabolism studies and urban design Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Transforming urban infrastructures is an essential part of creating more sustainable urban regions. But rethinking these complex systems requires a better understanding of their spatial dimensions and their relation with urban morphology and spatial structure. This paper addresses that gap by examining different conceptualizations of technical infrastructure and space in science, technology and society studies (STS), transition thinking, ...