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Brussels (Belgium)
Burak is Professor of Architectural Collaborative Design, Collective Spaces and Digital Media at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture. He holds a PhD from ITU Faculty of Architecture. After working at Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture and Texas A&M University VIZLab as a Visiting Scholar, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow (INNOVIRIS) at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture on “Alternative Urban Projects for the Brussels Capital Region”. He is the co-founder of the Altering Practices (Alt_Shift) Research Group. He is currently teaching design studio courses and running several international and national research projects in Brussels and Ghent Campuses. Burak's research covers an interdisciplinary area between architecture and urban design, participation and digital spatial media. The two main and complementary focus points are exploring and enabling bottom-up participation {in} and {through} reflexive research and design practices.
Participated in:
Madrazo, L., Zupančič, T., Pak, B. and Aparício, M. I. (2022) “Creating a Network of Places with Participatory Actions across Cities and Cultures”, The Journal of Public Space, 7(3)
The aim of the A-Place project is to address the problem of placelessness in our multicultural, and
Posted on April 04, 2023
Activating public space
On June 4th, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, organized a debate on the activation of public spa
Read in
Posted on June 04, 2021
Exploratory Walk and Walk building workshop
The Exploratory Walk and Walk building workshop, were important preparatory tasks to complete in ord
Posted on December 16, 2020
Exploratory walk & positioning the signage
The Exploratory walk involved the spring semester, KU Leuven Alt-shift elective, students in the ide
Posted on December 16, 2020
ACalmPlace event during Living Reine : Workshop Place de la Reine
Due to Covid-19 the event originally planned for May 2020 had to be postponed to October 2020. One p
Posted on December 16, 2020
ACalmPlace event during Living Reine : Sensory Walk
The sensory walk was developed by the urban collective OURB and guided by K
Posted on December 16, 2020
ACalmPlace event during Living Reine : Dinner & Concert
To end the event with a celebratory environment, a dinner and concert was organized, creating an opp
Posted on December 16, 2020
A Calm Place in the Living Reine Event
Alive Architecture and the KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, announce “A-Calm Place”,
Posted on October 02, 2020
Madrazo, L., Aparicio, M. I, Pak, B., & Zupančič, T. (2020), A-Place: Linking Places through Networked Artistic Practices. City Street conference 4, University of Ljubljana (online).
The purpose of A-Place “Linking places through networked artistic practices”, a project
Posted on September 24, 2020
City Street conference
A-Place will present a paper in the City Street conference organized by the Faculty of Architecture,
Posted on September 21, 2020
