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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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The shift in perspective: From designer to researcher – PhD seminar by Berit Ann Roos
What role does intuition play and how does this shift affect motivation and convictions? As an architect, Berit Ann Roos, designed a very intensive care (VIC) residential facility for intellectually impaired individuals showing challenging behavior. After being five years in use, she studied the building with the research question how architecture can contribute to the…
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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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PhD position at Research[x]Design – Making room for autism at work
Help us understand how the built work environment supports or hinders employees on the autism spectrum
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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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Sara Willems defends PhD “Reducing the gap between predicted and experienced indoor environmental comfort”
Research[x]Designer Sara Willems is delighted to invite you to her public PhD defenceon Thursday 22 September 2022 at 1:30 PMin Aula Jozef Heuts, Kasteelpark Arenberg 20, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. The defence will also be streamed live. You can access the streaming via this link on the day of the defence. Please confirm your attendance before the 20th of September…
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Phuong Lan Nguyen defends PhD “Home Tailoring. The Built Environment in Experiences of Independent Living on the Spectrum”
Research[x]Designer Phuong Lan Nguyen is delighted to invite you to her public PhD defenceOn Friday 13 May 2022 at 9:00 AM CETin Aula van de Tweede Hoofdwet in the Thermotechnisch Instituut,Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium.The presentation will be in English. After the defence, you are invited to the reception in the Machinezaalat the Thermotechnisch Instituut The…
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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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PhD position at Research[x]Design
Childhood stroke permanently alters the life of children and their families as care continues for many years after stroke onset. Through ethnographic and participatory research, the BUILD CARE project investigates the role of the built environment in the experiences of those affected by childhood stroke, in both informal (i.e. home, neighbourhood, school) and formal (i.e. a hospital, rehabilitation or outpatient clinic) care environments. As part…
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Children’s contexts of living and playing: Interdisciplinary perspectives
KU Leuven Child and Youth Institute (L-C&Y) and Research[x]Design (RxD) are delighted to invite you to a symposium on Thursday 30 September 2021 from 09h30 to 13h00 CEST in the Justus Lipsiuszaal, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven. The symposium will be in English. Video recordings of the presentations will be made available on the L-C&Y website.…
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