About us
Johan De Walsche - UAntwerpen
Johan De Walsche is full time associate professor at the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp, member of the Henry van de Velde research group and of the research board of ARIA, the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts. He is co-founder of ISTT (Interdisciplinary Studio for Territories in Transition). Trained as an engineer-architect he started his career combining studio teaching and professional practice for many years. He is former head of the architecture programme. His research interest focusses on methodologies of architectural design and practice-based research, and their transformative and emancipatory agency. At an applied level, this interest translates itself into design-driven actor-oriented approaches, such as urban living labs and participatory action research, in both Western (Belgium) and non-Western (Suriname and Brazil) contexts. Johan De Walsche has been council member of the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education), founding member and main coordinator of the EAAE Education Academy. He is founding member of ARENA, an international network for architectural research, where he organized DR_SoM, a series about design research methodologies. He is member of the scientific committee of CA²RE (Community for Artistic and Architectural Research). Next to his teaching at the University of Antwerp, he taught at AHO, Oslo School of Architecture, acted as a guest lecturer at several European schools and is currently involved . He is co-editor of ONTO, a peer-reviewed journal on methodology of architectural design education. His work has been published in various academic and professional journals and books.
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/henry-van-de-velde/ ; https://www.istt.be/en ; http://www.arena-architecture.eu/about/ ; https://ca2re.eu/
Virginie Pigeon - ULiège - Pigeon Ochej Paysage
Virginie Pigeon (1977) graduated as architect from ISA St Luc Liège, then certificated in landscape at ENSP Versailles. She is working for fifteen years, within the association PIGEON OCHEJ PAYSAGE, as a project author in the parallel disciplines of architecture: town planning, public space, territory, landscape and gardens. She handles projects on very different scales with varied programs, often in multidisciplinary teams: we are more particularly thinking about requalifications of the Val Benoit site in Liège and of the center of Courcelles, about the master plan and the public spaces of the new housing district in Walcourt, about the renovation of the Paulus park in Saint Gilles, classified, or the landscaped parking lot of Sart Tilman.
She has also been teaching in project workshops for ten years at the Liège Faculty of Architecture. She is currently involved in a thesis project focusing on territorial reinventions through cartographic operations.
Affiliation: ULiège – Faculty of architecture
