Isabelle Doucet
researcher
Address
Department of Architectural Theory
Faculty of Architecture
Delft University of Technology
Berlageweg 1/PO Box 5043
The Netherlands
Phone: +32 484 14 33 35
I.H.L.Doucet@tudelft.nl
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favourite urban spot
My favourite urban spot(s) would be hard to describe in spatial terms. Instead it would be an event emerging in space on the most unexpected moment, in the most unforeseen manner and at the same time in the most transforming and utterly productive way. And if its effects would resonate also after the event, it would only add to my appreciation of it.
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Current status
- lecturer (TU Delft)
- PhD. Student (TU Delft)
- researcher (Cosmopolis)
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Publications
2008 (Forthcoming)
[Centrality] and/or Cent][rality: a matter of place [Centrality] and/or Cent][rality: a matter of placing the boundaries
Reference: ‘Urban Landscape perspectives’ by G. Maciocco (ed), Springer Verlag
http://www.springer.com/series/7906?detailsPage=titles
2008 (Fortcoming)
Planning in search of ground: committed muddling through or a critical view from above?
Reference: ‘The territorial Future of the City’ by G. Maciocco (ed) Springer Verlag
http://www.springer.com/series/7906?detailsPage=titles
2007
A Vision for Brussels: Fuel to the Urban Debate or, at Last, an End to the Brussels Trauma?
Reference: Footprint Delft School of Design Journal, issue 1 – autumn 2007 pp. 97-105
http://www.footprintjournal.org
2007
Territori del bordo e dinamiche di coevoluzione nel rapporto progetto-contesto
Reference: Co-authored with S. Serreli & N. Sisti. In: ‘Il Progetto Ambientale in Aree di Bordo’, by G. Maciocco and P. Pittaluga (eds.), Franco Angeli Milano
2006
Negotiation and connectivity: a boundary approach to multi-layered landscapes
Reference: De-/signing the urban. Techno-genesis and the urban image, edited by G. Bruyns, P. Healy. 010 Publishers: Rotterdam, pp 330-345
2007
Production de connaissances urbaines sur la ville, dans la ville et par la ville – la situation de Bruxelles
Reference: Journal ‘BrU002 Planning a Capital - Imagination’, guest-edited by Bunkerhotel, CIVA Brussels
2007
Negotiating complexity: ‘professionals’ in action?
Reference: Bruyns G, Fuchs A, Hoekstra M, Meyer H, van Nes A eds. The European Tradition in Urbanism – and its Future, International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 405-414
2007
Negotiating (spatial) complexity: towards a science-in-action
Reference: Conference Proceedings “New concepts and approaches for urban and regional policy and planning” April 2007 K.U.Leuven, Belgium
2008
Si ni ‘d’en haut’ ni ‘d’en bas / vers le haut’ … alors quel point de vue puis-je adopter?
Reference: Seminar with Bruno Latour around ‘Re-assembling the Social’, Free University Brussels, Cosmopolis Belgium
2007
Negotiating Brussels: collectives in search for a common world
Reference: Importing ANT into the Urban Studies Seminar, Centre For Metropolitan Studies CMS Berlin
2006
Negotiation Processes for Multi-layered cases: The Ultimate Planning Boundary?
Reference: World Planning Schools Conference, UNAM Mexico-City
2006
Urban Negotiation Processes in the Brussels Capital Region
Reference: Urban Conditions and Life Chances Conference, University of Amsterdam
2006
Boundaries for negotiation and connectivity
Reference: Boundaries for negotiation and connectivity - Making Cities Conference, Cosmopolis Brussels
2005
Public Dialogue and the Public Domain
Reference: Vectors of visibility Seminar, TU Delft, with Mathieu Berger
2005
Boundaries for Negotiation and Connectivity
Reference: Seminar Regional Modelling System- Delft School of Design (TU Delft)
2007
Negotiating (spatial) complexity: opening the ‘black box’ of planning
Reference: Brussels Institute of Architecture Conference Series, Recyclart Brussels, 15 March 2007
2007
Irreductions: An Introduction to a Philosopher-in-Action
Reference: Chrono-Topographies Seminar, TU Delft, The Netherlands
2007
Objects too have agency: Latour and Architecture
Reference: Seminar on Bruno Latour’s ‘Re-Assembling the Social’, Cosmopolis Brussels
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Research Papers / Unpublished articles
2008
Functional mixture through the appropriate employment of boundaries
Available in PDF: Brussels Capital Region, department of Prospective Research for Brussels IWOIB
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Academic background and route
Ph.D Thesis – in fabrication !!
Title : Draft Title : Negotiating (Spatial) Complexity: Towards a Science-in-Action
Year :
Promotor : Prof. Arie Graafland – TU Delft Architecture Theory
Master Thesis
Title : Boundary as spatial generator: architecture as non-hierarchical space
Year : 2000
Promotor : Marc Godts, W&K Sint-Lucas Brussels
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Other relevant academic activities
Isabelle started academic research in 2004, when she received a 4-years research grant from the Brussels Capital Region (IWOIB), within the frame of Prospective Research For Brussels. Since 2005 she has been a PhD candidate at the Delft Technical University in the Netherlands, Faculty of Architecture (Dep. of Architecture Theory) where she currently finalises her PhD under supervision of Prof. Arie Graafland. She is additionally involved in the interdisciplinary Cosmopolis group for research on the city, culture & society, at the Free University of Brussels (Dep. of Geography), where she is currently working as a part-time research collaborator.
Parallel to her research activities, Isabelle has lectured, supervised and evaluated graduation projects in several European architecture faculties, including the Technical University of Delft, the Technical University of Berlin, W&K Sint-Lucas Brussels, Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero (Italy), ENSAPL Lille (France), and the Université Catholique de Louvain. Her teaching has, amongst others, focused on the coordination and conceptualisation of international workshops in architecture & urban design; on Master Courses in Architecture Theory and Urbanism - at the TU Delft (‘Drawing & Media’ and ‘The Urban Question’), W&K Sint-Lucas (‘Temporary Use and Urbanism’), and Facoltà di arch. Alghero (Architectural and Landscape Planning).
She is member of the Editorial Board of Footprint Delft School of Design Journal, (http://www.footprintjournal.org), and of the Editorial Staff of the Urban and Landscape Perspectives Series at Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/7906?detailsPage=titles).
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