Category: Grant/Mandate
Phone: 09 264 39 13
E-mail: birgit.cleppe@ugent.be
Bibliography: http://lib.ugent.be/bibliografie/802000288612
Biography
Birgit Cleppe graduated as a civil engineer-architect in 2007 with the masterthesis Making Theatre. Architectural strategies of contemporary stage artists. Currently, she is working as a doctoral researcher on a Ph.D. thesis Networks for public interest. Urban infrastructure and town planning in Ghent, 1836-1977. (supervisor prof. dr. ir-arch. Pieter Uyttenhove) Her main research interests are centred on urban history and urban morphology. She also publishes articles in journals as Etcetera and De Witte Raaf on performance art, architecture and contemporary art.
Current research project
Networks for public interest. Urban infrastructure and town planning in Ghent, 1836-1977.
Doctoral researcher: ir-arch. Birgit Cleppe Department of Architecture and Urban Planning Ghent University, Belgium Supervisors: prof. dr. ir-arch. Pieter Uyttenhove & prof. dr. Bart Verschaffel The purpose of the project is to investigate the impact of urban infrastructural networks, and in a broader sense the engineering way of thinking, on the morphological evolution of the city of Ghent. Since one network introduces another, their installation and expansion does not form a separated story for each network.. The main objective of this research project is therefore not to consider the networks separately, but to examine their overall influence on each other and on the development of the city. The primary focus is on the networks for gas, electricity, drinking water and sewerage. Secondary items are the demolitions of houses, road pavement, alignments, networks for telephone and telegraph, vicinal railroads and tramways.