Michiel Dehaene
Michiel Dehaene (1971) is Professor of Urbanism at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, where he teaches urban analysis and urban design. He is chairman of the programme committee of the Master in Urbanism and Spatial Planning. After studying Engineering-Architecture at KU Leuven (1994), he obtained a master's degree in Urban Design at Harvard University (1997) and a PhD degree at KU Leuven with a dissertation on the legacy of the 'survey movement' (2002). He was a lecturer in urban planning at Eindhoven University of Technology (2004-2011) and taught urban design in the European Master's programme in Urbanism at KU Leuven (2002-2011).
His work focuses on the epistemology of urbanism and the relationship between urbanism, ecology and urbanization. His research addresses questions of urban renewal, the legacy of suburban and dispersed development, and the relationship between urbanization and the food question. In his research, he combines exploratory research by design and planning-historical research. With Chiara Tornaghi, he led an international consortium on the development of agro-ecological urbanism (agroecologicalurbanism.org).
He is also co-supervisor of the EOS project 'Construction History: Above and Beyond' (FNRS/FWO). Michiel Dehaene is chairman of the Flemish Urban Renewal Jurie. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Architecture Workroom Brussels (https://www.architectureworkroom.eu/nl/about/310/board). Together with Thomas Block and Griet Roets he founded the City Academy (www.stadsacademie.be). He is a member of the core team of the Aesop Sustainable Planning Group.
