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Centre for urban research
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

COSMOPOLIS is related to the department of Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a member of the UAB Urban Studies Network, an interdisciplinary research and teaching network in urban studies.

Isabelle DOUCET

Current status / Situation Actuelle:
Lecturer (TU Delft)
PhD. Student (TU Delft)
Researcher (Cosmopolis)

Contact: I.H.L.Doucet@tudelft.nl

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Phone: 02 2 629 31 85
Fax: 02 629 33 78

Academic background and route:

Ph.D Thesis – in fabrication !!

Title : Draft Title : Negotiating (Spatial) Complexity: Towards a Science-in-Action
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

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, (www.footprintjournal.org), and of the Editorial Staff of the Urban and Landscape Perspectives Series at Springer Verlag.

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.