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Simon De Nys-Ketels

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38 Results

2025

'De Belgen hebben toch ziekenhuizen gebouwd' : mythe en realiteit van de medische 'modelkolonie' Congo

Simon De Nys-Ketels

Article in a magazine

Building the law : law-making and lobbying in Belgium’s construction sector (c. 1890 – c. 1940)

Simon De Nys-KetelsD. De ruysscher

A1 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR RECHTSGESCHIEDENIS-REVUE D HISTOIRE DU DROIT-THE LEGAL HISTORY REVIEW

De wetgevende macht van de Belgische bouwvakker : verkenning van een vergeten geschiedenis (1909-1939)

Simon De Nys-Ketels

A2 Journal Article in BULLETIN KNOB

The cordon sanitaire in Belgian Congo : between plan and reality

Simon De Nys-KetelsJohan LagaeKarel Proot

Bookchapter in Sick architecture

2024

Comfort and care in colonial Kinshasa

Simon De Nys-Ketels

Construction history, above and beyond : setting up a dialogue with other historical disciplines

Laurence HeindryckxMichiel DehaeneDave De ruysscherRika DevosJohan LagaeIne WoutersTom BroesSimon De Nys-KetelsRobby FivezIgor Bloch et al.

Legal expertise in professional construction periodicals : the Belgian building sector shaping and shaped by processes of juridification, 1918–1940

Simon De Nys-KetelsRika Devos

Système Grévisse : the Lubumbashi post-war housing scheme, between colonial guidelines and reality

Igor BlochSimon De Nys-Ketels

The Claude Bernard hospital in Paris : a debris of empire

Guillaume LachenalGaëtan ThomasSimon De Nys-KetelsJohan Lagae

Bookchapter in Reclaiming colonial architecture

2023

Myths and realities of the belgian medical model colony : a genealogy : PhD thesis in Architectural Sciences and Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Johan Lagae, Luce Beeckmans, and Koenraad Stroeken (UGent), Ghent University, November 2021

Simon De Nys-Ketels

A2 Journal Article in ABE JOURNAL (PARIS)

2022

Colonial policing and urban space in the notorious Commune Rouge of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo

Simon De Nys-Ketels

A1 Journal Article in URBAN HISTORY

2021

A hospital typology translated : transnational flows of architectural expertise in the Clinique Reine Elisabeth of Coquilhatville, in the Belgian Congo

Simon De Nys-Ketels

A2 Journal Article in ABE JOURNAL

Historicizing material properties : between technological and cultural history

Simon De Nys-KetelsRobby FivezK. Lloyd Thomas

Myths and realities of the Belgian medical model colony : a genealogy

Simon De Nys-KetelsJohan LagaeLuce BeeckmansKoenraad Stroeken

Pedestrian itineraries in Kinshasa : on shortcuts, permeable walls, and welded shut gates in a former colonial hospital

Kristien GeenenSimon De Nys-Ketels

A1 Journal Article in SPACE AND CULTURE

2019

Everyday resistance : exposing the complexities of participatory slum-upgrading projects in Nagpur

Febe De GeestSimon De Nys-Ketels

A1 Journal Article in HOUSING STUDIES

Planning Belgian Congo’s network of medical infrastructure : type-plans as tools to construct a medical model-colony, 1949–1959

Simon De Nys-KetelsLaurence HeindryckxJohan LagaeLuce Beeckmans

A1 Journal Article in PLANNING PERSPECTIVES

Spatial governmentality and everyday hospital life in colonial and postcolonial DR Congo

Simon De Nys-KetelsJohan LagaeKristien GeenenLuce BeeckmansTrésor Lumfuankenda Bungiena

Bookchapter in Neocolonialism and built heritage : echoes of empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe

2018

Exploring the conceptualization and design of “IEP-Sites” : SSE initiatives aiming for an Inclusive economic participation within Flemish urban cities

Nathalie ValletSimon De Nys-KetelsMichelle Bylemans

Bookchapter in Social and solidarity-based economy and territory, from embeddedness to co-construction

2017

An innovative concept on inclusive economic participation : the governance of inclusive economic participation sites in Flemish cities

Nathalie ValletMichelle BylemansSimon De Nys-Ketels

A2 Journal Article in LOCAL ECONOMY

Jiat-Hwee Chang, A geneaology of tropical architecture : colonial networks, nature and technoscience

Simon De Nys-Ketels

Mapping Belgian-Congo’s landscapes of medical architecture: public health policies in a colonie modèle.

Simon De Nys-Ketels

Segregating circulation in urban landmarks of colonial health, a spatial lecture of three post-war hospitals in Belgian-Congo.

Simon De Nys-Ketels

Service des travaux publics, Province de l’Équateur, Congo Belge : 'Situation des constructions C.M.C. au 1-9-1954'

Simon De Nys-KetelsJohan LagaeLaurence HeindryckxLuce Beeckmans

A2 Journal Article in ABE JOURNAL

The ambivalent sight, smell and sound of an African colonial hospital in a European neighbourhood.

Simon De Nys-KetelsKristien Geenen

The Design of IEP Sites : Aiming for an Inclusive Economic Participation of Urban Citizens in Flanders

Nathalie ValletSimon De Nys-KetelsMichelle Bylemans

Urban space as a tool for control and counteraction, the Kenya-neighbourhood in colonial Congo

Simon De Nys-Ketels

2016

Coercive Context Call for Silent Struggles. How Kinshasa’s City Dwellers Reconquer their Lost Mobilty

Kristien GeenenSimon De Nys-Ketels

Colonial and post-colonial urban planning and its resulting obstructed mobility: an historical view of a hospital in Kinshasa

Simon De Nys-KetelsKristien Geenen

Historique des bâtiments de l’Hôpital Provincial Général de Kinshasa (ex Mama Yemo)

Kristien GeenenSimon De Nys-Ketels

Historique des bâtiments de l’Hôpital Provincial Général de Kinshasa (ex Mama Yemo)

Kristien GeenenSimon De Nys-Ketels

How urban dwellers deal with ill-considered urban planning: an out-of-place hospital in Kinshasa reappropriated

Kristien GeenenSimon De Nys-Ketels

Non-resilient colonial urban planning and its resulting obstructed mobility: a historical view of a hospital in Kinshasa

Kristien GeenenSimon De Nys-Ketels

Solving the complex challenge of inclusive economic participation : an explorative research on the design of IEP-sites in Flanders (Belgium).

Nathalie ValletMichelle BylemansSimon De Nys-Ketels

Urban space as a tool for control and counteraction, the Kenya-neighbourhood in colonial Congo

Simon De Nys-Ketels

2015

Developments of strategic-spatial blueprints for different types of "IEP"-sites: social economy organizations in synergistic networks

Simon De Nys-KetelsNathalie ValletMichelle Bylemans

IEP-sites : een nieuwe kijk op Inclusieve Economische Participatie

Nathalie ValletSimon De Nys-KetelsMichelle Bylemans

Article in a magazine

IEP-sites: ruimtelijke uitdagingen voor een inclusieve economische participatie

Simon De Nys-KetelsNathalie ValletMichelle Bylemans

A4 Journal Article in RUIMTE