Unités

LoUIsE - Laboratoire Urbanisme, Infrastructures, Ecologies et Paysage

Les recherches du laboratoire LoUIsE – Laboratoire d'Urbanisme, Infrastructures, Ecologies et Paysage - sont orientées vers la compréhension des dynamiques de transformations des territoires et des processus de fabrication de projets urbains. Le laboratoire cherche en particulier à mettre en résonance une recherche exploratoire de l'espace métropolitain bruxellois avec d’autres contextes européens ou de l’Afrique sub-saharienne. Ces recherches sont développées par une équipe multidisciplinaire de chercheurs en architecture, urbanisme, paysage, économie et écologie. 
Le laboratoire développe un vingtaine de recherches doctorales et post-doctorales dont la plupart sont financées par le FNRS, Innorivis, l'ARES et le FEDER.

Projets

Urbanisme de l'eau

Worldwide, urban areas are being challenged to improve the conventional stormwater management regime (i.e. the totality of beliefs, rules and practices that guide water management activities). Illustrated as the Water Sensitive City, the envisioned new regime aims to solve water problems, to adapt to future uncertainties (e.g. increase of extreme events), to create a more liveable urban environment and to reflect the aspiration of the community related to water. Brussels-Capital Region (BCR) is a representative case for experiencing a transition towards a WsC. This research explores the hypothesis of how alternative actions contribute to a transition in the water regime in dense urban areas with a low level of water-related hazards by investigating different case studies located in BCR. The capacity of alternative actions to trigger changes in the regime is conditioned by the processes that produce them and by their influence on the emergence of subsequent actions. More specifically, the co-production of alternative actions provides viable solutions to current challenges and sets the conditions for trying the principles of the new regime in a particular context. The new stormwater management regime that favours this process relies on an adaptable infrastructure, as well as a different type of practice of who plans, designs, constructs and manages this new infrastructure, and how.