Dirk Roep The SUSPLACE project officially started October 1, 2015 and although it officially ended September 30, 2019, work was continued. In this concluding post an overview of the main, joint outputs: Synthesis Report: What, Why and How of Sustainable place-shaping Special Feature in Sustainability Science: Exploring the Transformative Capacity of Place-Shaping Practices. In total 25 scientific … Read more
June 25 2021, Anastasia Papangelou will defend her PhD thesis ‘Nutrient flows, budgets & loops: understanding, measuring, and fostering circularity in urban food systems’. The public defense starts at 5 p.m. (CET) in the Aula of KU Leuven. The ceremony will be livestreamed. Below a summary of the PhD-thesis. A pdf of the thesis can … Read more
Can an academic research project be turned into a children’s story? Yes, it can! With great enthusiasm and dedication, a team of six SUSPLACE fellows (Anastasia, Alessandro, Angela, Kelli, Lorena and Marta) has been engaged in an experimental co-creation effort to translate their research insights into a Children’s Book. After two years of work, the … Read more
Angela Moriggi is PhD-candidate at the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University. From April 1, 2016, until March 31, 2019, she was appointed as Early Stage Researcher at the National Resource Institute of Finland (LUKE) at the research project Nature as pathway of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE. Abstract Notions of care for humans and more-than-humans appear … Read more
May 14 2020, at 11.00 am (CET) Syed Omer Husain will defend his PhD-thesis ‘(De)coding a technopolity: Tethering the civic blockchain to political transformation‘. See the Abstract below. The full thesis can be downloaded (click title) from WUR Library after the defence ceremony. The ceremony will be live-streamed by Weblectures.wur.nl but is recorded and can … Read more
Angela Moriggi is PhD-candidate at the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University. From April 1, 2016, until March 31, 2019, she was appointed as Early Stage Researcher at the National Resource Institute of Finland (LUKE) at the research project Nature as pathway of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE. Abstract Green Care practices have received increasing scholarly … Read more
Transforming Places Together has been launched. The blog has been initiated by Prof. Lummina Horlings and Dr Gwenda van der Vaart, both affiliated at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The new blog is meant to offer a platform on transformative change and is open to contributions by others. The blog is a follow … Read more
The SUSPLACE Special Feature ‘Exploring the transformative capacity of place-shaping practices‘ is published open access in Sustainability Sciences. It comprises nine articles: eight original research articles and an introduction article by Lummina Horlings, Dirk Roep, Erik Mathijs and Terry Marsden. From the introduction: The eight papers in this Special Feature result from the EU funded … Read more
Omer Husain is PhD-candidate at the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He was appointed at the research project Place-based Policies of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE from April 1, 2016, till December 31, 2020. ‘The political imaginaries of blockchain projects: discerning the expressions of an emerging ecosystem’ by Syed Omer Husain, Alex Franklin and … Read more
How can research support social enterprises to enhance their capabilities and potentials? In this short video, we follow SUSPLACE fellow Angela Moriggi to two of her case studies -Tikanmäki care farm and Majvik biodynamic farm – pioneering examples in Finland of Green Care practices, nature-based activities with a social innovation purpose. Angela explains how she … Read more
Anastasia Papangelou is PhD-candidate the KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. From April 1, 2016, until March 31, 2019, she was appointed at the research project Circular Economy of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE. Phosphorus and energy flows through the food system of Brussels Capital Region by Anastasia Papangelou, Wouter M.J. Achten, Erik … Read more
Siri Pisters is PhD-candidate at the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University. From April 1, 2016, until March 31, 2019, she was appointed as Early Stage Researcher at the National Resource Institute of Finland (LUKE) at the research project Eco-villages and sustainable living of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE. ‘Inner change and sustainability initiatives: exploring the … Read more