A5039871158- Urban Planning and Governance
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Rural development and sustainability
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Community Health and Development
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Educational Tools and Methods
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Sustainability, Governance, and Employment Studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Ghent University
2021-2024
Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven
2019
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2016
KU Leuven
2013-2016
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Participatory design and planning processes are subject to co-option by neoliberal forces post-political logics. This places participatory practitioners, such as co-designers or planners involved in co-production a difficult position, whereby not taking critical stance can lead legitimising normalising the dominant logic of state elite. However, clear result loss access trust from stakeholders ultimately being side-lined influential processes. article critically adapts Eric M. Eisenberg's...
This paper argues how communicative planning approaches, as one of the most dominant conceptualisations participatory planning, often ignore embodied dimensions participation a socio-political learning processes. To do so, theoretically traces why Habermasian conceptualisation political intersubjectivity fails to democratise processes and turns an alternative Mouffean framework where coproductive methods are conceptualised public pedagogic interventions, allowing for different meanings be...
ABSTRACTABSTRACTThis paper describes the results of a research project in Antwerp, Belgium, aimed at developing spatial analysis approach ('activity scan') assessing how urban fabric on neighbourhood scale can encourage physical activity and active transport. By outlining set recurring challenges describing developed innovative toolkit, responds to necessity for design-oriented insights promote travel instigate concrete interventions. critically analysing this co-creative trajectory, article...
A co-evolutionary approach has been gaining momentum in planning research and practice. Setting itself apart by going beyond the confines of government, starting from a level playing field, refusing predefined outputs, it is situational relational through through. Arguably, this strand predominantly focused on forms activism or radical taking place outside government-led processes, turning to concept self-organisation. This article, however, explores possibility reconnect contentious action...
This paper presents a practical and pedagogical model of socially innovative planning based on four dialectical relations between actors, institutions instruments that frame, constitute position actions. The illustrates evaluates this by analysing spatial studios took place during the authors' six-year long engagement in heavily contested urban renewal project city Antwerp, Belgium. shows how frame for critical inquiry helped to address changes studio realities. understanding, experiencing...