Gisèle Gantois

Gisèle Gantois is affiliated with the Faculty and Department of Architecture, KU Leuven as associate professor. Her research is directed towards two main lines: First: investigating the concept of built heritage as Imagines Agentes whereby built heritage functions as a generating force in the process of appropriation towards belonging. Second: Investigating the social potential of the 3-steps methodology of Interactive Walking (Gantois, 2019), which challenges the traditional material-focused view nudging it towards a more anthropological perspective by directing attention primarily at the voiceless. She is senior researcher in the research group Urban Projects, Collective Spaces and Local Identities and has been teaching since 1991, currently in the master studio of Architecture at the KU Leuven, campus Ghent. Since September 2020 she also teaches at the Advanced Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (KU Leuven). Her private architectural practice serves as a laboratory where she focuses on community heritage as part of a social, cultural and ecological fabric. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7877.