Author Johan Op de Beeck, together with Sweco experts, has interviewed leading external experts on our podcast channel on the subjects of societal challenges related to energy, water, industry, mobility, quality of life, care and buildings.
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The three-day conference on Architecture, European Urbanisation and Globalisation is the first event of the future Master in Architecture - MArch. It presents in each session a mix of internationally leading architects, writers, curators and academics. Its goal is first to open up the panorama of issues the new Master will deal with and then, during debates, raise crucial issues to focus on by research and design work done in the coming years.
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Interviews with the best minds in Neuroscience today
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#6 – Catherine Goldberg (Managing Director Iris Hospitals South) and Diederik Van Der Linden (Director Pharma, Sweco Belgium) about Care and health
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Forget all the clichés about hospitals and care homes. The care facility of the future is well accessible, a place bathed in sunlight... Big data will keep the side effects of medication to a minimum, immunotherapy will be personalized and microscopically small cameras will do the scanning work. But however advanced the technology may be, the wellb…
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#5 – Luc Hellemans (CEO of Lantis) and Carl Verelst (Division Director Regional Infrastructure, Sweco Belgium) about Mobility
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Of all the current themes, mobility is perhaps the one that most makes us long for the future! Technology is completely at the forefront of this transition and it will make our mobility more efficient, safer and more sustainable. We can expect a convenient network of electric shared cars and bicycles, small-scale collective transport with self-driv…
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#4 – Daan Schalck (CEO North Sea Port) and Filip Verheyen (Division Director Industry, Sweco Belgium) about Industry
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Despite some preconceptions or claims, industry is the driving force behind the necessary innovation in climate ambitions. The Flemish industry does not only provide 12% of the employment and 60% of the total export in Flanders, this sector is also responsible for 80% of R&D expenditure. The fact that Flanders is a leader in innovation is something…
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#3 – Mohamed Ridouani (Mayor of Leuven) and Johan Van Reeth (Operational Manager, Sweco Belgium) about our Quality of life
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From liveability to quality of life Our cities are hotbeds of diversity, creativity, and gathering. Living, working, shopping, relaxing ... everything is possible here. The attraction of the city is both a blessing and a challenge for the climate. How do we keep it liveable? And what role can local authorities and companies play in this regard? Moh…
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#2 – Tinne Van der Straeten (Minister of Energy) and Tom Van Den Noortgaete (Division Director Energy, Sweco Belgium) about Energy
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The European Union wants to become completely climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest, and obviously this should not be achieved at the expense of energy supply. That is certainly a monumental challenge! That is why we are currently undertaking the largest ever reconstruction of our energy system in Belgium. Energy efficiency, renewable energy, hydro…
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#1 – Caroline Pauwels (Rector VUB) and Erwin Malcorps (President Sweco Belgium) about Lifelong learning
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In Belgium, as in the rest of the world, we are faced with major societal challenges: climate change, the economic recovery, industrial renewal, huge demographic developments and so on. All of these are complex, interlinked issues that determine our general well-being. A scientific approach is called for here. How does this work in practice? Johan …
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GSN podcast: Venturing Outside Academia with Viktoria Korzhova
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By Ekaterina Sytnik
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GSN podcast: Scientific Success Across Cultures and Disciplines with Dr. Rosskothen-Kuhl
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Dr. Rosskothen - Kuhl is a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Center of the University of Freiburg.If anyone can claim to bridge gaps between explanatory levels, it is Dr. Rosskothen-Kuhl, her work on hearing development and loss spans molecular, cellular and physiological levels.Her attention to detail and meticulous care in conducting comprehensi…
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GSN podcast: The Best of Both Worlds with Prof. Hans op de Beeck
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Prof. op de Beeck discusses his views on the dialogue between Biology and Psychology, behavior and technology, European and American Academia.By Ekaterina Sytnik
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GSN podcast: Navigating the Brain's Complexity with Prof. Kenneth Harriss
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Prof. Harriss discusses to what extent Mathematics can help us understand the brain, why he does not regret learning biology and why RNAseq is a paradigm shift.By Ekaterina Sytnik
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GSN podcast: treading the line between theory and experiment with Dr. Julija Krupic
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Dr. Krupic is at the University of Cambridge. She has excelled in her research on grid cells with the Nobel Prize winner John O'Keefe and now she carries on in her own new lab.By Ekaterina Sytnik
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GSN podcast: time travel in rats with Prof. Redish
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Prof. Redish is at the Department on Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. His lab is interested in the mechanisms underlying decision-making and spatial navigation.By Ekaterina Sytnik
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Mirko Zardini - A Third Landscape for Architecture
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Mirko Zardini, an architect, is the Director and Chief Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture since 2005. His research engages the transformation of contemporary architecture by questioning and relooking at the assumptions on which architects operate today. Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture (2011), his latest exhibition,…
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Dietmar Steiner studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Until 1989 he held a teaching post in architecture history and theory at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Dietmar Steiner has been director of the Architekturzentrum Wien since 1993. In 2002 he curated the Austrian contribution to the Architecture Biennial in …
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Marjan Colletti is co-founder of the London-based architecture studio marcosandmarjan, which combines experimental practice, research, theory and teaching. The studio is currently working on a 160.000m2 high-rise building in Taipei Taiwan. He is professor at the insititute for experimental architecture.Hochbau at Innsbruck university and a senior l…
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Hans Ibelings - Central and peripheral European architecture
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Hans Ibelings is trained as an architectural historian. He was the editor of A10 new European architecture, which he founded together with graphic designer Arjan Groot in 2004. He has just started The Architecture Observer a multiform tool for architectural criticism. Last year he published European architecture since 1890 (SUN Amsterdam 2011)/Euro…
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Aglaee Degros is cofounder of Artgineering (2001), an office for research and design at the border between urban planning and infrastructure. In 2010 she was visiting professor of Urban Culture and Public Space at the Vienna University of Technology. She has also been visiting lecturer at TU Delft, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam, Amsterdam and A…
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Carole Schmit graduated at La Cambre architecture in Brussels in 1997 and received a Post-Graduate Master’s degree at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam in 2000. She collaborated with Multiplicity Milan from 2000 – 2002 (project USE, Bordeaux 2000-2001 and Chinese connection, Australia 2001-2002) and with Maurice Nio Rotterdam from 2000 – 2002 (edi…
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Winy Maas is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1991 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV. He completed his studies at the RHSTL Boskoop, graduating as a "landscape architect", and in 1990 he got his degree from the Delft University of Technology. He currently is visiting professor of ar…
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Arno Brandlhuber - Spatial production and the ordering of social relations in the berlin republic
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Arno Brandlhuber is the founder of brandlhuber+ Berlin. He holds the chair of architecture and urban research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and is directing the nomadic masters program a42.org. He is co-founder of the public seminar Akademie c/o, currently researching on the spatial production of the Berlin Republic.…
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Matthias Böttger studied architecture and urban planning. His academic career started at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, continued at University of Stuttgart and from 2007 - 2011 he tought "Art + Architecture" at the ETH Zürich. 2007/2008 he was Visiting Professor for Art and Public Space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremburg. In 2008 he was comm…
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Sonja Beeck - Rien ne va plus - but there is a lot to do
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Dr. Sonja Beeck studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen. After 8 years of practice in architectural offices in Cologne and London, she went to New York, Las Vegas and Walt Disney Corp. to research for her PHD: „Theming _a method for semantic programming of space”, which she finished in 2003 at the University of Karlsruhe and at the Bauhaus Dessau F…
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Wouter Vanstiphout - Damn the Masters Plan!: Riots, Plans and Politics in Western Cities
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Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout (Heist op den Berg/Belgium 1967) is an architectural historian, founding partner of Crimson Architectural Historians in Rotterdam and Professor of Design & Politics at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft Technical University in the Netherlands. As a practitioner he has directed the renewal of the Dutch Industrial Satel…
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Michele Brunello - Milan Expo 2015_Planetary Kitchen Garden
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Michele Brunello, architect, lives between Milan and Venice where he is coursing his Ph.D. at the IUAV university and collaborating as associate professor. He is partner in Stefano Boeri Architetti. After having coordinated the project in La Maddalena and Milan 2015 Expo Masterplan, he is now developing the city of innovation "Skolkovo" in Moscow. …
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Marianne Brausch - The Kirchberg Plateau in Luxembourg : how to analyse an example
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Markus Hesse is Professor of urban studies at the University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Humanities, with the Geography and Spatial Planning research centre. With an academic background in geography and spatial planning, he published widely in the field of urban and regional development, economic and social geography and, more recently, on housing is…
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Markus Hesse - European Urbanisation and the "Kirchberg Syndrome"
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Markus Hesse is Professor of urban studies at the University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Humanities, with the Geography and Spatial Planning research centre. With an academic background in geography and spatial planning, he published widely in the field of urban and regional development, economic and social geography and, more recently, on housing is…
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Vincente Guallart - Barcelona, the selfsufficient networked city
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Vicente Guallart has since July 2011 been Barcelona City Council’s Chief Architect and Director of Urban Habitat, with responsibility for Urbanism, Environment, Infrastructure and ICT. In recent years his firm, Guallart Architects, has carried out numerous architectural projects in which environment issues converge with information technologies, no…
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Manuel Herz is a practicing architect based in Basel, his most recent project being the Synagogue and Community Center in Mainz. He is the head of research and teaching at ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute and teaches at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. After having finished his studies at the Architectural Association in…
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Lars Lerup - Next City: Why we have to pay attention to self-regulation
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Lars Lerup is the Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor of Architecture and the Dean Emeritus at Rice School of Architecture, Houston Texas and Professor Emeritus of University of California at Berkeley. He was awarded Doctor honoris causa in technology by Lund University, Sweden in 2001. Born in Sweden he holds degrees in engineering (Sweden), ar…
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Brett Steele - Notes on Architecture and Globalisation
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Brett Steele is the Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, including the AA Public Programme and AA Publications. The Architectural Association is the UK’s oldest and only private school of architecture, which has for decades been recognized as an influential worldwide leader in architectural education. AA graduates are t…
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Murray Fraser: The Scale of Globalisation
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Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he currently acts as the Director of Research. He has published extensively on design, architectural history & theory, urbanism, and cultural studies. In 2008 his book, Architecture and the 'Special Relationship' (R…
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Christian Schulz: Spaces and places of globalisation – views from human geography
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Christian Schulz is Professor of European Sustainable Spatial Development and Analysis at the University of Luxembourg and since 2007 Head of its interdisciplinary Research Unit IPSE (Identités. Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces). His research and teaching mainly focus on cross-border regional development in Europe as well as on environmental economic …
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