Prof. dr. ir. arch. Oswald DEVISCH
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Prof. dr. ir. arch. Oswald DEVISCH
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Prof. dr. ir. arch. Oswald DEVISCH
Research
Discipline codes: Urban and regional design (02011104), Urban and regional planning policy, instruments and legislation (02011106), Urbanism and regional planning (02011107)
Supervised PhDs
Exploring Self-organized Commercial Streets: Towards a Participatory Design Approach through an Anthropological Study of Shekilango Commercial Street in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Richard Besha for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Collective Intimacy: Engaging in pleasure and desire as a path towards sustainability in the social housing context in Limburg, Belgium.
Josymar Astrid Rodriguez Alfonzo for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Engaging with Uncomfortable Emotions in Participatory Urban Planning and Design
Chioma Obasi for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Researching the potential of digital technologies in participatory land use planning and conflict resolution in planned urban settlements. The case of Sinza in Dar es Salaam.
Manyama Majogoro for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Participatory Land Use Planning with Digital Technologies for Managing Demarcated Conflict Areas: A Case of Tegeta in Dar Es Salaam City
Janepher Kimaro for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Embracing Digital Technology in Participatory Planning and Land use conflict Management practices in rural settlements-Case of Ruvu ranch, Bagamoyo
Beatrice Kaijage for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
The Other Side of Listening : An ethnographic action-research focusing on generating the practice of ‘Collective Listening’ as a core capability in Participatory Design by conducting listening/sound experiments, seeks to address the Social Housing context, towards building a ‘Caring’ neighborhood in Waterschei, Genk.
Ankit Kumar Singh for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Land entrepreneurship and the challenges of housing development: Participation of public and private actors in rapid urban development in the peri-urban areas of Lubumbashi
Guy Masudi for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Reworld(build)ing social housing estates: integrating social and ecological practices of mapping, playing and performing in public interiors
Asli Kolbas for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Setting up a feminist utopian Living Lab in the Hasselt beguinage: a methodology for exploring local-regional scales of participation
Louise Mazet for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Exploring the Potentials of Multi-Agent Systems to Support the Participatory Management of Village Spatial Transformations Around Mining area: Application to Kawama village in Haut-Katanga in DR Congo
Gabriel Ndibazokize for the title Doctor of Architecture (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
A field guide for experiential evaluation as a way of designing with experiences and values in neighbourhoods in transformation.
Lieve Custers for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2024
Supervised as Promotor
Exploring the role of a research-by-design studio as a context to develop a new model for Flood Resilient Urban Parks: The case of Thanh Da Peninsula in Vietnam
To Quyen Le for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2022
Supervised as Promotor
Prototyping Residential Subdivisions: A participatory prototyping approach for developing capacities for sustainable futures in suburban dwelling contexts.
Teresa Palmieri for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2022
Supervised as Promotor
Shrinkage in Growth: A Concept for Spatial Planning?
Tine Segers for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2021
Supervised as Copromotor
CRITICAL ATLASSING: A DIALECTICAL DESIGN APPROACH TO MAPPING AND DIALOGUES IN FLEMISH LOW-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL CONTEXTS
Barbara Roosen for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2021
Supervised as Promotor
PLAYING WITH URBAN COMPLEXITIES - Reflections on Spatial Knowledge Production, Capabilities and Gamified Participatory Artefacts in a Capacity Building Process
Teodora Constantinescu for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2020
Supervised as Promotor
What is public? An approach to stage a debate in a village as a spatial practitioner
Sarah Martens for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2018
Supervised as Promotor
Informal Capacities: Exploring grounded architectural practice in transitions to sustainable urbanism in Cape Town
Philippus Rudolf Perold for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2018
Supervised as Promotor
Sharing is caring. Thick documentation in Participatory Design.
Jessica Schoffelen for the title Doctor of Audiovisual and Visual Arts in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
A Location-based game to visualize spatial tactics
Simona Sofronie for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2014
Supervised as Promotor
Christian Nolf for the title Doctor of Architecture in 2013
Supervised as Promotor
Projects
34 research projects have been found
Land entrepreneurship and the challenges of housing development: contribution of public and private actors in rapid urban development in the peri-urban areas of Lubumbashi (Research)
01/09/2023 - 31/08/2027
Local development dynamics: application to peripheral cities of mining sites in Haut-Katanga, DR Congo (Research)
01/03/2025 - 31/05/2027
Collective listening to communities and spaces as a core capability in planning towards 15-minute suburban Cities (Research)
01/01/2024 - 31/12/2026
Collective Intimacy: Engaging in pleasure and desire as a path towards sustainability in the social housing context in Limburg, Belgium. (Research)
01/08/2022 - 31/07/2026
Deliberating the demise of cultural heritage in small towns and villages in South Africa and Belgium (Research)
01/03/2023 - 28/02/2026
Quality manual 'living in a Maasdorp' or 'living in the Maas Valley' (Research)
01/09/2024 - 31/12/2025
Design with/for trust; Design research into platforms for sustainable learning on how to share space in more caring ways (working title) (Research)
01/01/2019 - 31/08/2023
Large Parks: Resilience and ecological practice for flooded areas (Research)
01/02/2017 - 31/12/2022
Academic consulting training in an interdisciplinary context (ACTi) (Education)
01/09/2020 - 31/08/2022
The civic internship as the conclusion to the civic reflection learning pathway (Education)
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2021
Exploratory research in preparation for the focus and approach of practice-based research for commissioned art in public space (Research)
16/12/2019 - 15/12/2020
Qualitative research of the socio-econmic network in Limburg with the aim of setting up a project development with Economic Clusters in Limburg (Research)
01/05/2020 - 31/08/2020
Building Capacity to transform existing residential subdivisions into smart and robust urban ecosystems (Research)
01/04/2017 - 31/03/2020
Research into bottlenecks and potentials of new Flemish spatial policy for the region of the 'Fruitspoor' within the framework of BRV-pilot projects (Research)
01/07/2018 - 31/12/2019
Framework agreement for public procurement for "elaboration and realization of participation plans and actions" service of the City of Hasselt ref 2017-1773 (Research)
01/04/2017 - 31/12/2019
Summerschool: Methods and strategies to monitor and manage human impact on urbanized protected areas (UPA) (Education)
01/09/2016 - 31/12/2017
Sustainability through situation: cheap tricks, contingent hybrids and radical change (Research)
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2017
Playing with urban complexity : using co-located serious games to reduce the urban carbon footprint among young adults (Research)
01/10/2014 - 30/09/2017
Estimate nr RV-AOM / 16/14: Lessons for participation in Flemish regional projects and processes. (Research)
14/10/2016 - 13/07/2017
Tapping Knowledge through Design: Conceptual Framework on Promoting Eco-tourism through Sustainable Waterfront Development in Dar es Salaam.. (Research)
01/05/2015 - 30/06/2015
Water in urbanised landscapes. Integrating civil engineering and urban design approaches in regional landscape development projects. (Research)
01/10/2010 - 30/09/2014
Education
Involved in the following courses
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2024 - 2025
Academic year 2024 - 2025
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