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L-C&Y Master Thesis Award for Ine Werckx
We are proud to share that the Leuven Child & Youth Institute has awarded Research[x]Designer Ine Werckx the very first L-C&Y Master Thesis Award! Her master’s thesis was guided by Ann Heylighen, Céline Ramioul and Jasmien Kinnaer. Ine’s award-winning thesis focuses on mother-child detention and the role of architecture in creating humane detention environments.…
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RxD wins Golden Henry van de Velde Award in category “Craft”
The ongoing research on the robotic fabrication of undesignable material expressions was able to win a Henry van de Velde Award in category “Craft”. The Henry van de Velde Award is the most prestigious Design and Innovation prize in Belgium, and our project “Robotic Serendipity” was awarded with the “Golden” model, the first prize in…
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Elise Tackx wins 8th Passwerk prize
Elise Tackx has been awarded the eighth Passwerk prize for 2020 for her master’s thesis “Student life on the autism spectrum: How the built and social environment affect the experience of living in a student accommodation”, which was guided by Research[x]Designers Ann Heylighen and Phuong Lan Nguyen. Going to college is a critical transitional phase…
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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: Learning from video research with children in a cancer care ward”. The paper, which is co-authored by Stefan Ramaekers and Ann Heylighen, reflects…
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MUURmelaar wins Media Architecture Award in Animated Architecture
MUURmelaar is an architectural facade in Leuven, Belgium, that translates the physical behavior of passers-by into a dynamic soundscape of intriguing sounds and rhythms. The concept behind MUURmelaar is deeply grounded in architectural argumentation, both in its physical manifestation and actuation, as well as in the reasoning behind the interactive features. Last week MUURmelaar won…
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4WUA receives honorary mention at the 2018 FAD prizes
4WUA (Four Wheelchair-User Architects), a book that presents a new architecture – one projected by disabled architects – received an honorary mention at the 2018 FAD prizes, a prestigious prize in Spain. One of the four authors, and also editor of the book, is Natalia Pérez Liebergesell, who investigates as PhD candidate in the Research[x]Design group how disabled architects design. By writing in…
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RxD wins best paper award
RxD PhD students Jorgos Coenen and Sandy Claes, under supervision of prof. Andrew Vande Moere, have won the best paper award at the Pervasive Displays conference. The paper titled “The Concurrent Use of Touch and Mid-Air Gestures or Floor Mat Interaction on a Public Display” investigates a novel approach to simultaneously use the qualities of…
