Author / Ann Heylighen
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What is essential in residential design for independent living on the autism spectrum? – PhD seminar by Phuong Lan Nguyen
Autistic people’s well-being can be profoundly affected by their residential environment. Autistic adults tend to live with their parents rather than independently. Given the importance of residential settings to everyone. It is…
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Natalia Pérez Liebergesell defends her PhD entitled ‘The difference disability makes: Learning about interactions with architectural design from four architects experiencing disability’
Natalia Pérez Liebergesell cordially invites you to her public PhD defense on Monday, December 14th 2020, at 17:00h CET. The defense will be streamed live through zoom. You can obtain the link…
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New project about enabling the building sector to design enabling spaces
On March 1st, Research[x]Design starts a new research project/knowledge transfer project entitled enable² – enabling the building sector to create enabling spaces. The 3-year project is supported by the KU Leuven Industrial…
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Pleuntje Jellema defends her PhD entitled ‘Foregrounding the built environment in experiences of (cancer) care: Learning lessons for human-centred design’
Pleuntje Jellema is delighted to invite you to her public PhD defenceon Friday 21 February 2020 at 1:30 PMin Aula De Molen, Kasteelpark Arenberg 50, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. After the defence, you are invited to the…
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‘Meet the jury’ seminar – Building support for cancer care: Learning from Maggie’s Centres
With her PhD research, Research[x]Designer Pleuntje Jellema seeks to foreground the built environment in the experiences of cancer care. At the occasion of her PhD defense, we organize a ‘meet the jury’…
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New postdoc project explores alternative briefing techniques
On Oct 1st, Valerie Van der Linden starts a new research project that will explore alternative briefing techniques for architectural practice. The 1-year project is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship of the…
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Piet Tutenel wins best paper award at EAD2019
At the European Academy of Design/EAD2019 conference in Dundee, RxD PhD candidate Piet Tutenel has been awarded the Rachel Cooper Award for Innovation 2019 for his paper “Conversations between procedural and situated ethics:…
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Opening Multisensory Museum Space
On Thursday, February 28, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) will open the multisensory museum space that has been created in collaboration with Research[x]Design. On the occasion of this opening, Van Abbe…
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Scenario-based design of care(ful) environments
At the launch of the Stynen Academy in deSingel in Antwerp on February 22, Valerie Van der Linden will present our work on scenario-based design as a way to articulate and attend to…
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New PhD project seeks to close the gap between perceived and measured indoor environmental quality in hospitals
On Oct 1st, Sara Willems starts a PhD project that seeks to close the gap between how indoor environmental quality is perceived and how it is measured. The 4-year project is supported…
