COSMOPOLIS. City, Culture
& Society
Free University Brussels
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel
Tel: + 32 (0) 2 629 37 41
Fax: + 32 (0) 2 629 33 78
cosmopolis@vub.ac.be
Dr. Bas van Heur
Current position
Assistant professor in social geography
Contact:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Department of Geography
Faculty of Sciences
Building F – Room 6F326
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: +32 (0)2 629 3377
Fax: +32 (0)2 629 3378
E-Mail: bvheur@vub.ac.be
Academic profile
I am assistant professor of social geography at the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Broadly speaking, my main research interest is in the politics of urban development and the role of research in engaging with and analysing urban development strategies and their effects. Most of my recent empirical research falls into two areas:
(1) culture and the city – cultural/creative industries, heritage, quality of life, cultural policy; and
(2) education and the city – built environment of universities, knowledge and learning cities, university-community interaction.
I also have a strong interest in social theory and have so far contributed to debates on cultural political economy, urban laboratories and experimentation, and social ontology. I am keen to supervise research students in any of these broad areas.
Diplomas
2008: PhD in Geography (magna cum laude), Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2004: MA in Cultural History (cum laude), Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 2001: BA in Liberal Arts, Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Previous employment
2008-2011: Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands 2007: Research fellow, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. 2005-2006: Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom. 2004-2005: Lecturer, Institute of Media and Representation, Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Current Teaching
Geography of Globalisation, MA Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications (selection)
2011 Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities, Routledge (co-edited with Anne Lorentzen).
2011 Small Cities and the Sociospatial Specificity of Economic Development: a Heuristic Approach, in: Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur (eds.), Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities, Routledge.
2011 VIA2018.University: Emancipatory Practices, Regional Strategies, and a Research Program (co-authored with Peter Peters). Position paper commissioned by the VIA2018 project office in preparation for the bid book Maastricht European Capital of Culture 2018.
2010 The Built Environment of Higher Education and Research: Architecture and the Expectation of Innovation, Geography Compass 4(12), 1713-1724.
2010 From Analogue to Digital and Back Again: Institutional Dynamics of Heritage Innovation, International Journal of Heritage Studies 16(6), 405-416.
2010 Beyond Regulation: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Complexity and Emergence, New Political Economy 15(3), 421-444.
2010 Research and Relevance: Reply to Jessop and Sum, New Political Economy 15(3), 453-456.
2010 Small Cities and the Geographical Bias of Creative Industries Research and Policy, Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events 2(2), 189-192.
2010 Creative Networks and the City: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Production, Transcript Verlag.
2009 The Clustering of Creative Networks: Between Myth and Reality, Urban Studies 46(8), 1531-1552.
2009 Imagining the Spatialities of Music Production: the Co-Constitution of Creative Clusters and Networks, in: Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington and Norma Rantisi (eds.), Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy, Routledge, 106-115.
Studiedag: Naar een Brussels onderwijs? Vers un enseignement bruxellois? 30/05/2012
Het Brussels Studies Institute (ULB, FUSL, VUB) organiseert op 30 mei een studiedag over onderwijs in Brussel.
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