Panel Members and their Research Interests

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Anders Kruse Aagard

Aarhus School of Architecture

digital fabrication, materials, wood constructions, concrete, experiments

Naime Esra Akin

Aarhus School of Architecture

sustainable architecture, social sustainability, urban/public spaces, architectural pedagogies

Alper Semih Alkan

TU Delft

media theory, representation, visuality, hybrid mediality/materiality, technical images, disegno, drawing

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Matthias Ballestrem

HCU Hamburg

space perception, architecture psychology, typology, public interiors, design teaching, design build

Fabrizia Berlingieri

Politecnico di Milano

urban architectures; design for transitions; infrastructure and urban form; contemporary architectural design theories

Marcel Bleuler

Zurich University of the Arts

I explore research in terms of a negotiation of the relations between artistic production, knowledge production, social communities as well as society at large.

Anđelka Bnin-Bninski

University of Belgrade

architect engineer with specializations in theory of arts and media and architectural philosophy

educator, curator and interdisciplinary researcher

practicing architect

current research focus on critical strategies and activist tactics of architectural drawing research in practice

Manuel Bogalheiro

Universidade Lusófona do Porto

philosophy of technics, materialities of media, theory of culture, ecology

Ignacio Borrego Gómez-Pallete

TU Berlin

Practicing architect with focus on industrial and contemporary fabrication systems.

Boštjan Botas Kenda

University of Ljubljana

my research areas are visual communications in public space in relation to publishing products

Marco Bovati

Politecnico di Milano

relation between Urban and Architectural Design and the aim of sustainability

strategies for sustainable architecture and urban regeneration, with particular attention to the intermediate scale (block, district)

role of environmental features in defining the guidelines of the interventions

reuse and recycling of abandoned soils, buildings and urban tissues

Margitta Buchert

Leibniz University Hannover

The primary fields of research are 'Reflexive Design‘, 'Urban Architecture' along with the aesthetics and contextuality of architecture, arts, cities, and nature.

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Roberto Cavallo

TU Delft

architecture, urban design, interdisciplinary & multiscale approach, design-driven research, infrastructures & built environment, circularity, cross-domain perspective, experimental pedagogies, participatory processes, practice-oriented research

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Johan De Walsche

University of Antwerp

design research methodology and design education

design as a tool for anticipating fast transitions

Florian Dombois

Zurich University of the Arts

sound art, performance, art & architecture, artistic research; studies on time, labilities, wind and tectonic activity

Who is addressed by the research, who can take it further, transform it into a new state of relation? What if artists, architects, designers are the recipients, the people who gain from research directly?

Débora Domingo-Calabuig

Universitat Politècnica de València

Her interests include the methods, means, and impact of architectural research. Her research focuses on the open design processes of the 60s and 70s architecture and urban design.

Daniel Dubowitz

Manchester School of Architecture

urbanism practice and research – collaborative urbanism: regeneration of post-industrial cities across the UK, new methods for making tomorrow’s cities, meaningful engagegement of citizens in their transformation

pedagogy research: student investigation how architecture can be on the move and activate a state of change

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Riet Eeckhout

KU Leuven

Riet Eeckhout’s research focuses on the agency of drawing within the discipline of architecture, more specifically the generative capacity of architectural drawing surpassing its representational nature. She exhibits, lecture’s and writes about her drawing practice from within the discipline of architecture. The research is driven by projects in collaboration with an international network of architects and theorists to build knowledge on artefactual agency in processes and results.

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Kent Fitzsimons

Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux

My research adopts a critical approach to theories regarding the relationship between social forms and material forms. This has brought me to study how architecture and architectural thought construct ideas about the body (gender, handicap, ageing), the intentions and effects of sustainable urban mobility projects (modal shift, active modes, social mixity), and the contrasts between politicizing architecture as form and politicizing architecture as process.

Domen Fras

University of Ljubljana

Typography and typeface design are two fields of my practice and research. I participated in numerous public and cultural projects in various media linking architectural, graphic and typographic design with strong focus on a relationship between the information conveyed by typography and its visual form.

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Lidia Gasperoni

TU Berlin

philosophy of architecture, aesthetics, media, anthropocene, fieldwork

architectural theory and philosophy with a focus on media philosophy anthropocene theories, and aesthetics

Pieterjan Ginckels

KU Leuven

As a future-oriented researcher, pedagogue, architect, and visual artist, Pieterjan Ginckels sets up collective experiments, dealing with visual architectural cultures and the (post-)millennial and superficial sensibilities of the personae that are part of it—students, artists, architects, thinkers, and policy makers.

#misanthropocene #postmillennialstudio #radicalsaturation #speedtrip #performance

Pedro Guilherme

Universidade de Èvora

architectural competitions

research by design

drawing research

architecture's internationalization

Álvaro Siza Vieira drawings and research method

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Anke Haarmann

HCU Hamburg

As a philosopher and artist, I am interested in the aesthetic formulations of practice-based research. I have worked on artistic research for more than 10 years, published philosophical books on the topic and curated exhibitions.

Christoph Heinemann

HCU Hamburg

Based on my proper approach on design experienced in our architectural practice ifau as well as on the design methods we develop and teach in our design studio at HCU in Hamburg, I am especially interested in a projective approach on architecture based on situative development strategies and relational practices, allowing to combine and process specific experiential knowledge and overarching societal issues.

Marjan Hočevar

University of Ljubljana

epistemic cultures, cognitive styles, reflexivity, societal changes, integration / autonomy

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Matevž Juvančič

University of Ljubljana

education of general public on the topics of sustainability, public participation, visualizations and visual communication processes, generic urban elements, sustainability of urban neighbourhoods, notions of spatial character, spatial semantics and spatial identity

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Thierry Lagrange

KU Leuven

design-driven research methods

act of drawing

act of looking

the drawing in relation to new spatialities

Jacopo Leveratto

Politecnico di Milano

critical spatial practices (practices of inhabitation and strategies of placemaking);

public space design (tactical interventions and re-activation projects);

post-human architecture (design for interspecies cohabitation)

Jo Liekens

KU Leuven

architecture as a practice of agonistic staging, dissensus and politics; congregational agency, vibrant matters and more-than-human perspectives in architecture

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Mona Mahall

HCU Hamburg

Mona Mahall works at the intersection of art and architecture, across spatial, image, sound, and text practices.

Michael McGarry

Queen’s University Belfast

design practice research, representation, artistic practices, spatiality in the visual arts

Nela Milić

University of the Arts, London

Elena Montanari

Politecnico di Milano

interior architecture; museum and exhibition design; built heritage; museographic heritage

Elena Montanari’s research work revolves around the interplay among interior architecture, museographic culture and heritage valorization, with a particular focus on the latest trends in the design of museum architecture, on the adaptation of historical buildings into exhibition spaces, on the development of innovative memorial forms in heritage cities and in places of memory, on the musealization of “difficult built heritage”, and on the raise of innovative theories and practices concerning exhibition design history and museographic heritage.

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Dorotea Ottaviani

University of Johannesburg

creative practice research, adaptive reuse, public space, architectural pedagogy

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Maria Rita Pais

Universidade Lusófona

Claus Peder Pedersen

Aarhus School of Architecture

Claus Peder Pedersen’s research focuses on architectural design methodologies and creative processes with interest in representation and digital design tools. He is active in promoting practice- and design-driven research.

Mark Pimlott

TU Delft

public interior, representation, subjectivities, territory and interior, continuous interior

Mark Pimlott's research is primarily concerned with the public interior, as a product of, on the one hand, ideologies and their imprint on territory, the city, its institutions and subjectivities, and on the other, systems of representation consciously or unconsciously attached to those ideologies.

Gennaro Postiglione

Politecnico di Milano

interior architecture

interiors; architectural ethnography; adaptive reuse; re-housing

His research field is interiors culture, at the intersection between people, places, and practices, crossing architecture, ethnography, and material culture. The same theoretical background nourishes also his research by design activity focused on adaptive reuse of minor and neglected heritage.

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Paul O Robinson

University of Ljubljana

Paul O Robinson is a visual artist, architect, educator and maker of objects and spaces that question the hegemony of institutionalized practice. His multiform work and installations emerge through the artifice and layered entanglements between surface and narrative content.

Alessandro Rocca

Politecnico di Milano

architectural and urban design

design-driven research

urban and rural wilderness

architectural theories, types and techniques

Edite Rosa

Universidade Lusófona do Porto

design project, housing and public equipment’s, urban and public space, social sustainability

The research interests are centred in the area of Architecture, in particular in the studies of modern architecture and practice of contemporary architecture.

Mia Roth-Čerina

University of Zagreb

professional, teaching and research practices are architectural education and educational spaces, as well as the public space they interact with

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Sofia Salema

Universidade de Èvora

architectural research; teaching and research practices in architectural education; Álvaro Siza Vieira drawings and research method; heritage and research practices in restoration/conservation works; research practices in recognition of heritage values

Markus Schwai

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

urban design, spatial planning, small scale urban changes (intended to change behavior), participation - co-design, design driven research

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Ana Telles

Universidade de Èvora

active pianist

music history and analysis (20th and 21st centuries), piano music, piano performance practices

Maria Topolčanska

Academy of Fine Arts Prague

pedagogy and research on architecture, city, art, urban politics, urban commons, property, land, mass housing, housing and work, typology, urban design, urbanization history, post-state socialist urbanity, education of architects, study vs. production of knowledge in architecture, architectural thinking in research, theory of contemporary practices of architecture, architecture related curatorial and editorial practices

Manuela Triggianese

TU Delft

In her research, she explores the role of design in large scale interventions among multiple actors and she links her research to education by engaging them in all activities.

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Ilaria Valente

Politecnico di Milano

Design methods and tools for architectural and urban regeneration in marginal fabrics and fragile territories.

Jo Van Den Berghe

KU Leuven

experimental architectural design

Techné and Poiesis in making architecture (the poetics of making)

innovative versions of the architectural drawing as an indispensable locus between Techné and Poiesis

design-driven research and reflective architectural practice

Esther Venrooij

KU Leuven

With a sharp focus, both in her studies and creative impulses on audio topography, she explores the way sound and movements inhabits space.

Boštjan Vuga

University of Ljubljana

architecture, research, education

public! porous! placed!

i am very much interested how boundaries could be employed to place a porous architectural structure onto a specific place in order to generate or enhance publicness!

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Jürgen Weidinger

TU Berlin

landscape achitecture

designing and implementing landscape architecture projects

reflections on aesthetical perception and experience in landscape architectural design

critical reflection on the relation of practice and academic theories concerning the design disciplines

Steffen Wellinger

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

public building, public space, live projects, architecture as a strategic tool, didactics

Katrina Wiberg

Aarhus School of Architecture

landscape architecture and urban landscapes

climate adaptation and resilience with regard to water (rising sea levels, cloud burst, e.g.), research through designing, landscape analysis and scenarios emphasizing values-, scale and time perspectives

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Tadeja Zupančič

University of Ljubljana

architecture, urban design, digital design;

research in architecture, research by design, creative practice research;

spatial identity, vulnerability, sensitive designer;

architectural education, lifelong learning in architecture, digital support to architectural design/research/education