Visiteurs Planificateurs #3 : Kris Scheerlinck / Territoires de Paysage Urbain

Visiting Planners is a new series of interviews and lectures on research and practice in urban policy. Five guests between May and June will conduct a series of two-day tours in Brno and Prague, where they will introduce their work in variously defined roles:


Kris Scheerlinck / Territories of Streetscape 

scientist and head of research on urban projects at KU Leuven

On Thursday, June 8, 2017, at 19:00
norma space, Podskalská 370/31, 128 00 Prague

On Friday, June 9, 2017, at 19:00
PRAGUE / Forum for Architecture and Media, Husova 18a, 602 00 Brno


Kris is recently interested in how new domains of collectivity arise and function in contemporary cities. He will attempt to clarify how urban collectivity emerges. He will focus particularly on how the transformation of urban infrastructure affects levels of collectivity in the streetscape. We will discuss his research and urban projects in Barcelona, Brussels, Addis Ababa, and New York.


Kris Scheerlinck leads the research project Streetscape Territories and is the associate dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Campus Ghent/Brussels at KU Leuven. This year, he was a member of the first jury for a new competition for the best dissertation in urbanism in the EU, named after his own mentor “European Prize Manuel de Solà-Morales.”


Kris Scheerlinck is an architect, urban planner, and assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium. He leads his own research-urban practice with projects in Barcelona, Milan, Madrid, New York, Antwerp, Ghent, and Brussels. He is the founder of the academic project ‘Streetscape Territories’ and supervises related doctoral theses. He is an expert in the analysis of public-private models of urban development and related aspects of accessibility and permeability of cities and territorial delineations on projects in Europe, South and North America, and Africa. He heads the research group ‘Urban Projects, Collective Spaces & Local Identities’. He studied architecture (School of Architecture, Sint-Lucas, Ghent) and urbanism (UPC Barcelona), with postgraduate studies in spatial planning (KU Leuven), urban culture and urbanism (UPC Barcelona), and received his Ph.D. in architecture and urban projects (UPC/URL, Barcelona).

* Visiting Planners is a new series of interviews and lectures on research and practice in urban policy. Five guests between May and June will conduct a series of two-day tours in Brno and Prague, introducing their work in variously defined roles.

* The new lecture format is a collaboration of the organizing team of PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media in Brno with the architecture gallery norma space in Prague.
Curator: Maria Topolcanska / 
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