Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research search menu search content Ongoing granted project March 2023 - February 2027 Innovative businessmodeling for crafts Abstract Tracks4Crafts is set to examine and transform the transmission of traditional crafts knowledge (hence TCK) to achieve an enhanced…

Heritage Practice Communities in a Digitized World search menu search content About Julie Julie De Groot is guest professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Urban History and member of Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) at the University of Antwerp. She is trained as an histori…

Research Group Product Development search menu search content Augmented Crafting Lab Prototyping the future Context Topics Services Projects Related courses Team Associations & partners Contact Context Prototyping the future Our collaborative research vision at the augmented crafting lab underscores…

Marc Jacobs full professor - vice-dean Research Marc Jacobs Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Expertise Heritage: theory, policy and practice Actor-network theory History: cultural history, popular culture, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century, social history, book history UNESC…

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Research projects Current projects MicroMReg - Regulating Traffic Conflicts in Urban Neighborhoods through Dynamic Data-Driven Solutions USI members involved: Wouter Verheyen Partners: Institute of Transport Economics (TØI) Norway; Aston University…

Jouke Casper Verlinden professor - vice-dean Research Jouke Casper Verlinden Research team Product development Expertise Product design and digital fabrication (3D printing/additive manufacturing, robotics, CNC/deformation), supported by embodied interactive visualisation. New products and services …

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Floating Ideas 30 September 2021 Ioannis Sklavounos (+ Akos Moravanszky*) — Building Insights. Architectural Transformations between Crafts and the City Sam Vanhee (+ Steven Stals**) — Modernism’s Legacy in Antwerp’s Interior Architecture Program…

Cumulus Antwerp 2023 search menu search content Bert De Munck Friday 14 April The reinventions of craft: A historical view on the usefulness of craftsmanship Bert De Munck is full Professor in History at the University of Antwerp, teaching ‘Early Modern History’, ‘Theory of Historical Knowledg…

Annick Schramme professor Research Annick Schramme Research team Management Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Expertise Cultural governance, both in Flanders and from a global perspective. In 2019 I published a book on "cultural governance from a global perspective". In recent years I h…

Bert De Munck full professor Research Bert De Munck Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Historical research on cities and urban society. Focus on the production and circulation of technical knowledge and skills; the assessment of labour and the social economy; migration, civil society a…

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Sam Vanhee 2020 - 2025 The emergence of interior architecture in Belgium, 1945-1999. Assessing the impact of education on the identity formation of the design discipline. Promotor: Els De Vos Partners: Benoît Vandevoort (KU Leuven), Fredie Floré (KU Le…

Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings search menu search content Sustainable buildings Research Building performance simulations The EMIB research group has extended expertise in state-of-the-art dynamic building performance simulations. With these tools we can model the occupant ther…

Decolonial Dialogues search menu search content Pierre-Antoine Vettorello Research Field: Fashion and Decoloniality Current projects: - Black Yarns: A Decolonial Research into the History of Black Women’s Fashion & Jewellery Design Practices (PhD candidate) - Part of the FWO research group on tran…

Esther van Zimmeren professor Research Esther van Zimmeren Research team Business and Law Government and Law Expertise Esther van Zimmeren has particular expertise in Intellectual Property (IP) law, in particular in patent law, IP governance, innovation policy, technology transfer, competition law, …

Death care search menu search content Lunch event - Memento Mori: The Dead Body in Art and Science With a talk by Anna Suwalowska and contributions by Bart Vandeput (Bartaku), Christina Stadlbauer & Anaïs Chabeur Date: 25 June 2025 Location: Universiteit Antwerpen, Stadcampus, (Grote Kauwenberg 18,…

Cultural Management and Cultural Policy search menu search content Conferences Since 2011, we organized several conferences on cultural management, the creative industries and entrepreneurship. *Please note that the responsible Fashion series emerged from the Fashion Colloqium series that ran from 2…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Visual Poetics Invites 2021-2022 Lecture Program VP Invites @ DESINGEL: On Breath, Negativity and Blissful Imagination Within the framework of the new performing arts festival CARTA 22 at the International Art Campus DESINGEL, Antwerp Uni…

Roger Dommisse emeritus occasional assignment Research Roger Dommisse Research team Expertise All modern one- and multidimensional NMR techniques for the identification of (organic) chemical compounds. Multimar: Multidisciplinary magnetic resonance. 01/01/2012 - 30/09/2013 Abstract This is a fundame…

Benefits of Urban Green Spaces search menu search content News Discover our activities, events, and more BUGS Workshop on Parks, Health, and Accessibility 🌿 On the 2nd of July, we held our BUGS workshop on the interconnected topics of parks, health benefits, and accessibility — and it was a fan…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The CCQOfficers Pascal Gielen - Full Professor, CCQO founder Pascal Gielen (1970) is full professor of sociology of culture and politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University – Belgium) where he leads the Culture …

Pascal Gielen full professor Research Pascal Gielen Research team Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Expertise Cultural sociological research in the field of creative labour, cultural politics, critical theory, civil action and the arts. Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal i…

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Academic Projects - Centre for Urban History Ongoing projects Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examine…

Els De Vos professor Research Els De Vos Research team Henry van de Velde Expertise Homeculture in Flanders - modern architecture - postwar housing - gender- public space- Public interior - interior architecture and art - herbestemming van modernistisch erfgoed Francqui Chair 2025-2026 Prof. Carola …

Xplore Design Week search menu search content #1 Reimagine a Honda By Jochen Schollaert Choose your Honda car & restyle it! Explore the many Honda cars of the past & present and choose one of your liking. Fuse it with a concept, a culture, a user … anything; and reinvent it. While you’re at it, …

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Visiting scholars Every academic year, the Urban Studies Institute welcomes visiting scholars. They are offered the opportunity to conduct their research at the USI and to participate at the institute’s research activities. The visiting scholars w…