University of Antwerp, CityLAB VI organiser
Director of the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA). His research topics are threefold: the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, interdisciplinary LGBTI/queer studies, and interdisciplinary urban studies - including the correlation between literature and architecture.
University of Antwerp
Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the Department of Communication Studies.
He has devoted the core of his career to the study of visual culture in India and Italy. He is also a specialist of the integration of emerging technologies within ethnographic methods. Presently he conducts research on image-making practices in contemporary India.
University of Antwerp, CityLAB VI organiser
Professor cultural sociology at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA). He received the Odysseus Grant for his research about the conditions of sustainable creative labour in different urban contexts, for which he instituted the interdisciplinairy Culture Commons Quest Office.
Poet
City Poet of Antwerp (2016-2017). His poetry collection Contact has just been published.
Ghent University
Professor in Comparative Literature. He published articles on topics concerning urban studies, genre criticism, literary historiography and literary sociology in international journals and books.
University of Utrecht
Assistant Professor Theatre Studies. Her research focuses on the dramaturgy of contemporary socially engaged theatre and performance practices, in particular performative interventions in public space.
Poet
Belgium's National Poet (2018-2020). On World Poetry Day 2018, she launched the idea of writing "the most exotic Lonely Planet": a worldwide anthology of urban elegies. Read more about the Adopted Cities project.
Architects, The Netherlands (Rotterdam)
International office practicing architecture and urbanism.
OMA in The Economist (14 May 2018): "Libraries that speak loudly"
OMA in Co.Design (1 May 2018): "A Highway Runs Right Through This Copenhagen Building"
Allice Atout & Santiago Cirugeda
Spanish architectural studio that develops subversive projects in different urban areas. Now creating a "Montaña Verde" at De Coninckplein in Antwerp.
Santiago Cirugeda in The Guardian (18 August 2014): "How Spain’s ‘guerrilla architect’ is building new hope out of financial crisis"
Columbia University
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Author of The Global City and Cities in a World Economy.
Sassen in The Guardian (19 March 2018): "China's radical plan to limit the populations of Beijing and Shanghai"
University of Antwerp
Professor in Architecture, Faculty of Design Sciences with a research focus on twentieth-century architecture. Her book Radical Games (2009) was shortlisted for the 2011 CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award.
University of Alberta
Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair and Professor of Sociology, City-Region Studies Centre, Faculty of Extension.
Founder and Co-Editor, Space and Culture en Curb Planning Magazine.
Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas (MIT)
Interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries.
Filmmaker, School of Arts Ghent
An's work meet at the intersection between documentary, anthropology and visual arts. She obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences (Ghent University), and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
Artist, School of Arts Ghent
Artist on the meaning, design and use of the urbanized landscape. Her work consists of videos, photography, writing, actions and installations in public space.
EPFL, Switzerland
Architectural and literary theorist. He is co-editor of several issues of OASE, such as OASE94 (2015) on the First Decade of OMA/Rem Koolhaas. Author of several essays, stories and three novels.
Filmmaker
Ghent University
Literature researcher, GUST (Ghent Urban Studies Team).
Ghent University and University of Antwerp
Philosopher and professor in architectural theory at Ghent University and Semiotics at the University of Antwerp. His publications cover the research fields of cultural philosophy, art and architectural theory and aesthetics.
Scenographer and artist
His work is situated on the intersection of architecture, scene design and visual arts. He often works with dance and theatre groups.
University of Antwerp & ULB, CityLAB VI organiser
Postdoctoral researcher in the THEA Joint Research Group (ULB) and the Research Centre for Visual Poetics (UAntwerp). She is involved in the European research projects on the magic lantern.