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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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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 organizes a symposium to present the results of the research. Opening symposium MULTISENSORY MUSEUM What would the museum look like if it had…
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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 user experience in design, and how it can be tailored to designing care(ful) environments. More information about the event (including registration) is available here
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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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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…
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Valerie Van der Linden defends her PhD entitled ‘Articulating user experience in architects’ knowing: Tailoring scenario-based design to architecture’
Valerie Van der Linden cordially invites you to her public PhD defence on Tuesay 29 May 2018 at 2PM in Aula De Molen, Kasteelpark Arenberg 50, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. The presentation will be in English. After the defence, you are kindly invited to the reception in the Salons of the Arenberg Castle. Please confirm your…
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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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Intensifying the Real: Architecture and the Construction of Experience
William Feuerman (Office Feuerman and University of Technology Sydney) talks about his recent work in a brown bag lunch seminar on Tuesday, May 22, 12:30-14u, in room KAST 00.29 [directions & access info] William Feuerman’s research in architecture and visual perception stem from his own experience of an acute, isolated stroke causing a disorder that…
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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…
