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Berit Ann Roos gives seminar about conducting PhD research on a self-designed building
An architect’s research on a self-designed building: residential care facility for residents showing challenging behaviour. A seminar by Research[x]Designer Berit Ann Roos As an architect Berit Ann Roos has designed a very intensive care (VIC) residential facility for intellectually impaired individuals showing challenging behavior. The design of the facility intended to improve their quality of…
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Exploring Children’s Everyday (Design) Practices: Athens Course Rethinks Indeterminacy in Design
Compared to most adults, children seemingly care less about designed intentions and spaces/objects offer them possibilities for action that are hard to anticipate – their world appears to be less or undetermined, even in a highly structured environment like a hospital/child oncology ward. How can architects design in ways that support children as everyday designers? Building upon the PhD research of Research[x]Designer Piet Tutenel,…
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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 and passcode to access the livestream via Natalia Pérez Liebergesell. Interpreting services can be arranged upon request (please inform Natalia before Nov 20).…
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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 Research (IOF). The project team includes Koen Coomans, Pleuntje Jellema and Peter-Willem Vermeersch, supervised by Ann Heylighen in collaboration with Anja Van den…
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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 receptionin the Salons of the Arenberg Castle. Please confirm your attendance before the 7th of February via this link. You can park at parking Arenberg – De Molen (code: 6591#)or get…
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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 by a PhD fellowship of the FWO and supervised by Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, RxD) and Dirk Saelens (KU Leuven, Building Physics). Buildings’…
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New postdoc project looks into how to design activating healthcare buildings
On Oct 1st, Margo Annemans starts a new research project that looks into how healthcare buildings can be designed so as to contribute to mobilising patients. The 3-year project is supported by an FWO postdoctoral fellowship, and will be supervised by Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, RxD) and Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij (UGent, Department of Movement and Sports…
