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. In Belgium, children up to the age of three can stay with their mothers in prison, yet they often live in high-security facilities that are poorly adapted to their needs. By studying international models, Ine suggests how “quieter architecture” – without high walls and barbed wire, but with a more home-like environment – can contribute to the well-being of both mothers and children. Want to learn more? Read about her award-winning research here. Currently, Ine is pursuing PhD research on what we can learn from contemporary care architecture to design for humane detention. Interested? Read a short summary here. We warmly congratulate Ine on this well-deserved recognition and look forward to her further research! |