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
Eefje VLOEBERGHS
Current position
Academic coordinator of the Master of Arts in European Urban Studies (POLIS) & UNICA Euromaster in Urban Studies (4Cities) Academic Researcher ‘Brussels, a future vision’
Contact
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: 02 629 37 41
Fax: 02 629 33 78
Email: eefje.vloeberghs@vub.ac.be
Diplomas
Master in Social & Cultural Agogics, Free University Brussels. Thesis: Interreligious Dialogue: ‘Interreligieuze dialoog. Een exploratief onderzoek naar de verwachtingen en visies van de deelnemers van het Brussels Interreligieus en Levensbeschouwelijk Platform.’ Supervisor Prof. Dr. D. Verté International Master in ‘European Urban Cultures’ (POLIS) joined degree from Free University Brussels, Tilburg University, Manchester Metropolitan University & University of Arts and design Helsinki Thesis: Creative re-inventions of the Urban. About Playful, Utopian and Serious Politics in New Artistic Urban Move-ments. Case study CityMine(d) Brussels & UHC Collective, ManchesterSupervisors Prof. Dr. E. Corijn & Prof. Dr. J. O’Connor Certificate Mitrovica Summer Courses 2008 (Kosovo) from SPARK. The Role of Dialogue in Local Peace Building. Grade: A, Credits: 3
Research
GROSE – Croissance économique et cohésion sociale dans la ville. Etude prospective pour Bruxelles à l’horizon 2020’ - TASKFORCE CRD-GOC (2007-2010) Waarheen met Brussel, Stedelijke toekomstvisie’ / ‘Where to with Brussels, a future vision’ / ‘Ou va Bruxelles?’ in cooperation with CRD-GOC(2007-2009) Advies en aanzet tot discussieplatform rond een integrale visie in het ‘Stadsvernieuwsproject Ledeberg’ in Gent (2006-2007) Neighbourhood Monitoring Brussels - Brusselse Wijkmonitoring (2006-2008)
Publications
E. Corijn & E. Vloeberghs, Brussel! (2009) ASP Editions, Brussels, 312 p. ISBN 978 90 5487 579 6 E. Corijn & E. Vloeberghs, Bruxelles! (2009) ASP Editions, Brussels, 312 p. ISBN 978 90 5487 606 9
Conference presentations:
Creative Re-Inventions of the Urban. About Playful, Utopian and serious Politics in new Artistic Urban Movements. Presented at the 1st International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (FICYUrb) Lisbon (2007) Vloeberghs, E., (2010), Arts and negotiated gentrification. Platform & Festival Kanal in Brussels, presented at the ESF Exploratory Workshop on PUBLIC ART. Public art and its distresses. From mainstream city marketing strategies to a tool for social regeneration. At Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (Italy) on 21-22 October 2010
Teaching
Guidance thesis POLIS- Master in European Urban Cultures (2006-…) Guidance Urban Analysis Course: Neighbourhood Fieldwork 4Cities & POLIS students Guest lecture Brussels Citizens University: Youth is the future. Brussels' diverse youth: what can be done? Sketching a future festival of Brussels' youth., 5th October 2010, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Guest lecture ‘Introduction to Brussels’ - Sociale Geografie, Free University of Brussels Guest lecture ‘Neighbourhood monitoring Brussels’ for the Erasmus Mundus Programme –Urban Studies Module- Free University of Brussels.’ Het Punt- Week van de vrijwilliger. Studievoormiddag. “De evolutie van de socio-economische- en taalfactoren in het BHG” , 03/03/2009.
Other interesting activities
Cooperation ‘Cultuurplan’ (Brussels Kunsten Overleg & Réseau des Arts), Workgroup Cooperation ‘Brussels Neighbourhood dossiers’/‘Wijkfiches Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest’ Cooperation ‘Training in territorial interventions VGC’/ Wijkanalyse gemeenschapscentra VGC / (2008-2009) Participation Lecture seminars ‘Reassembling the social / Changer la société’ Bruno Latour (2007 – 2008)
Favourite urban spot
A window-sill in the Marollen, Brussels, to observe the passers-by, strollers, neighbours passing through the cubblestreet. And particularly watching the three young men from the bakery, the butcher’s and the grocery passing through time, serving their customers, waiting for Godot in the street, while smiling, helping or teasing each other in overcoming some way of dullness. And why? Besides living in Brussels, walking through crowds and walks to the library, drinks in the cafés, theatre visits, one of the most amusing acts is observing the everyday practices of the ones you hardly know but share the same street, or neighbourhood with, in languages, practices you don’t understand…So, street life as such.
Tip: the best street life experience you will definitely find in Mumbai.
Vacancy: Assistant/Associate Professor Economic Geography
A tenured full/time position in economic geography is available at COSMOPOLIS (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) to begin October 2012.
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