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) and teacher's degree at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven. His recent publications concern the interrelation between morality, meaning and architecture and have been published in, among others, The Journal of Architecture.
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Teaching Assistant
dr. Chris BESSEMANS
Research
Discipline codes: Ethical theory (06030301), Metaethics (06030305), Ethics not elsewhere classified (06030399), Analytical philosophy (06030221), Phenomenology (06030204), Philosophical aesthetics (06030201), Philosophy not elsewhere classified (06030299), Architectural history and theory (06040301), Architectural heritage and conservation (06040201), Interior architecture history and theory (06040311), Critical heritage (06040703), Heritage not elsewhere classified (06040799), Heritage conservation management (06040704), Historical sites and landscape heritage (06040705), Interior architecture heritage and conservation (06040801), Architecture not elsewhere classified (06040299)