The public defence of the gardener architect

On the 11th June, I defended my PhD thesis in Brussels.

Titled The Gardener Architect: designing with the emergent natures of places, it focusses on defining the principles for designing with the creative capacity of socio-ecosystems, both humans and other living beings.

I am full of gratitude for the support from my supervisors – the late Johan Verbeke & Jo Van Den Berghe – and my supervisory team – Mauro Baracco, Kester Rattenbury, Hans Leinfelder.

A special thank you for the amazing team who helped setting-up the exhibition: Robin Pembrooke, Ana Krec and Keb Garavito. You are stars.

You can download the thesis on the KU Leuven website here.

Image credit: Robin Pembrooke and Ingrid Van Kerkhove.

The doctoral committee line-up: Marco Casagrande, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck, Mauro Baracco (virtually) and my supervisor Jo Van Den Berghe

Professor Mauro Baracco present through video conferencing from Australia

Thank you for the generosity and insight of my supervisor Jo Van Den Berghe (centre) and the help for setting up of Ana Krec.

Eric Guibert18 June 2018

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The public defence of the gardener architect