Conservation by the Next Generation 2025 search menu search content Programme & Book of Abstracts SESSION 1 - Technologies (28 October 2025) CET: 19:00–19:20 · EDT: 2–2:20 p.m · GMT: 6–6:20 p.m · EET: 20:00–20:20 KEYNOTE BY PAUL VAN LAAR - Research associate – Scientific research at Fit…

Mathilde Occelli doctoral scholarship holder Research Mathilde Occelli Research team Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS) Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Imcotech – Impermeable coating techniques for historical horse-drawn vehicles. 01/08/2024 - 31/07/2028 Abstract Up to the e…

Conservation by the Next Generation 2025 search menu search content Session dates and start-time Can I join the ConNext Sessions? Of course you can! All the ConNext Sessions are open to all and free to follow, no registration is needed. How to join a ConNext Session? You can join the online platform…

Vincent Cattersel assistant professor - senior researcher Publications Vincent Cattersel Exploratory investigation of historical decorative laminates by means of vibrational spectroscopic techniques Source Heritage science - ISSN 2050-7445-11:1 (2023) p. 1-11 Author(s) An Jacquemain, Klara Retko, Le…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Nasser Road: political posters in Uganda by Kristof Titeca Nasser Road, Kampala: nicknamed Uganda’s Silicon Valley. This street is a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud. From fake identity cards to universi…

Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences search menu search content Cultural history of heritage In the last few centuries, people of different stripes and feathers – both professional and amateur archaeologists and historians, collectors, connoisseurs, artists and antique dealers, policymakers, and a m…

Andrea Marchetti assistant professor - senior researcher Research Andrea Marchetti Research team Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS) Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Expertise The aim of my research career has always been to advance the understanding of history, composition and …

Vincent Cattersel assistant professor - senior researcher Research Vincent Cattersel Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Expertise Conservation and restoration, and the scientific study of (non) polychromed sculpture, furniture, and organic materials (ivory, bone, tortoise shel…

Stefanie Bauvois teaching assistant Research Stefanie Bauvois Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Treatment of pre-Columbian objects. 07/11/2019 - 01/10/2020 Abstract Research and treatment of three pre-columbian artifacts from the collection of the city of Antwerp. Due to the …

Xplore Design Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Plein Plastic - Using plastic waste as a resource by Vadim Van den Heuvel and Hannes Dams Antwerp mourned after the popular hotspot Plein Publiek was shut down in March 2018. Luckily – not too long after – they picked up where they had l…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Supermarket as public stage By Johanna Roth The supermarket is one of the most frequented architectures of our time, an everyday stage where belonging is continuously negotiated. Both intimate and anonymous, local and global,…

Kurt Vanhoutte professor Research Kurt Vanhoutte Research team Research Centre for Visual Poetics Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Performance and Immersive Technology Lab for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities. 01/06/2025 - 31/05/2027 Abstract The objective of this project a…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Office for Phantasmatic Displacements by Franziska Hederer and Max Höfler room F1.7 Design is some sort of a technique to organize things and processes in an efficient and smooth way. In order to create just a beautiful surf…

Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences search menu search content Projects - Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences Ongoing projects Reviving Historic Water Infrastructures: Integrating Historical Water Systems for Sustainable Urban Water Management and Climate Resilience. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract C…

Koen Janssens full professor Research Koen Janssens Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS) Expertise -Structural analysis and analysis of mixtures of crystalline compounds by means of milli-beam X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) in the l…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Results #2 DRIVOSAUR by Oliver Froome-Lewis & Penélope Plaza "When they woke up, the dinosaur was still there." The Dinosaur, Augusto Monterroso, 1959 We presented our 2022 project 'DRIVOSAUR' to our group high on the top floor of the Ro…

Rene Van Grieken emeritus occasional assignment Research Rene Van Grieken Research team Expertise Trace and micro analysis, especially for environmental samples Research project VMM – heavy metals. 01/10/2014 - 31/10/2015 Abstract Examination of instrumental parameters and current validation for t…

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Research Ongoing projects HomeFrames: Amateur film, migration and home-making in post-war Belgium 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2028 Abstract FWO Junior Research Project in collaboration with Kevin Smets (VUB) -- The HomeFrames research project intr…