Category: research
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Walking the word of design (doctoral dissertation) [2021]
The 19th of April of 2021 I successfully defended my PhD thesis. Due to the public health measures imposed by the pandemic, the public defense took place in a remote way. The thesis is presented in a box, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s boite en valise and Chris Ware’s graphic novel Building Stories. The format of…
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Walking the word of design in Genk [Genk, March 2021]
The 19th of March of 2021 I made a performative walk around Genk, through which I shared the central elements of my doctoral research while grounding them in concrete places of Genk. The walk represented a part of the artistic component of my doctoral defence, which took place one month later, the 19th of April.…
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De Andere Markt [Genk, 2015 – 2019]
Website / Facebook page De Andere Markt is a living lab located in the neighborhood of Winterslag, Genk (BE). Genk has been undergoing a rough transition in terms of work, as the three coal mines around which it was created have progressively closed from the 1960’s and the Ford manufacturing factory that was opened to cover the…
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Relational Network Tool – DAM [Online, 2018]
The Relational Network Tool is a digital mapping and networking tool developed in Genk -but spanning internationally- in 2018. The initial drive for developing such tool was motivated by my imminent departure from Genk and Belgium, and therefore the end of my collaboration with the project De Andere Markt (DAM); confronted with this situation, I…
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Funghi Lab [Genk, 2016]
How can the circular economy be put into practice in a local context, starting from the existing local skills? Funghi Lab was an exploratory process of designing, prototyping and testing a system to produce, distribute and market mushrooms from waste (resources) in Genk. In several cities have the potential of growing food based on organic waste…