École Polytechnique de Bruxelles

BATir (Building, Architecture and Town Planning)

(IUAT) Institut d'urbanisme et aménagement du territoire

I studied architecture and have mainly worked in the field of urban planning. Since 2017 I have been part of the team monitoring urban and architectural project studios in the Bruface master programme, between ULB and VUB. In 2018, I started developing a PhD research on the spatial implications of regional ambitions promoting the circular economy in Brussels. I am interested in ways of integrating environmental awareness (beyond anthropocentrism) into urban planning thinking and practice. I worked as an architect and urban planner in Brussels, first with the Rotor collective and then with the Karbon‘ architects’ cooperative. I have developed projects on an architectural and urban scale in Belgium, where I currently live.

The socio-spatial issues that urban and architectural projects address intrinsically affect multiple actors (human and non-human), spaces and powers. Such transdisciplinarity requires multiple perspectives and intense collaboration with a wide range of players (academics, but also others). Ecological ambitions are reshaping the field of urban and architectural design and challenging the way in which cities and infrastructures are conceptualised, built, transformed and maintained. In view of this major transformation, shared knowledge and methodologies are essential if we are to rise to the challenge.

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