Chris Bessemans is currently a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, where he has been teaching architectural ethics since 2020. In 2022, he joined the research group TRACE: Heritage & Adaptive Reuse and co-developed (with Koenraad Van Cleempoel) the research project (2024-2029) 'The ethical nature of architectural interventions in built heritage' which was supported by the Research Foundation — Flanders (FWO). Previously, he obtained his PhD in philosophy (on value-ethics) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven. His recent publications, among others in the Journal of Architecture, concern the moral-symbolic dimension in architectural and adaptive reuse design.