Oswald Devisch

Dados Biográficos

ID	4469867
NOME	Oswald Devisch
PRENOMES	Oswald
SOBRENOME	Devisch
ASSINATURA	DEVISCH O
AFILIAÇÕES	Hasselt University
ORCID	0000-0002-3029-3057
VERIFICADO	Sim
TOTAL DE OBRAS	17
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES	2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR	17
TOTAL COMO EDITOR	0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO	2009
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO	2026
ÍNDICE H	1

Mapping spontaneous conflicts
Open AccessManyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2026Referências: 9
Participatory Retrofitting Through Extended Planners in Tanzanian Urban Areas
Open AccessManyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2025
The global endeavour to develop inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and human settlements is paramount. Land use conflicts in urban areas persist as a critical issue among stakeholders in contemporary urban development discourse. This article examines the effectiveness of local mediation strategies in resolving land use conflicts within East African cities’ rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. It focuses explicitly on community-ba…
Self-Organized Social and Physical Livelihood Assets in State-Driven Urban Developments
Richard Besha, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEDesign and Culture2025Referências: 7
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, local actors through self-organized practices that contribute to livelihoods generate the lived space amidst top-down processes in commercial streets. We employed a design anthropological approach in studying how inhabitants create, use and thrive in these spaces. We analyze and discuss the social and physical assets of commercial streets in the context of planned neighborhoods that are governed by regulations. We reve…
Adapting to Urban planning contradictions in community-led initiatives in growing African Cities
Open AccessManyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEUrban Governance2025
Experiential Evaluation to Create Risky Situations and Address Tensions in a Participatory Planning Process
Open AccessLieve Custers, Liesbeth Huybrechts et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2023
Planning processes often cause tensions between institutions and citizens because the local knowledge and values of the citizens are not included in the decision-making process, which can cause mistrust. This article builds on an ongoing PhD research that explores the potential of experiential evaluation as an alternative and experimental approach to “hybrid forums”: an approach to open the participatory planning process for diverse actors and va…
Places For continuous learning on spatial planning issues – reflections on an experiment
Oswald Devisch, Majken Toftager Larsen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2022
Ever since the eighties, spatial planners have been approaching planning processes as learning processes. In this article we argue that such learning processes not only require a trajectory that helps groups to reflect in and on their actions, but also a trajectory that helps these groups to learn how to participate in such reflections. We refer to such a trajectory as a Place for Continuous Learning. The aim of the article is to explore how to d…
Learning to reflect collectively
Open AccessSeppe De Blust, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2022
Spatial planning as a field in continuous transition needs a way of working that allows for questioning its professional practice. In this paper, we focus on the design of 4-days long ‘studios’ for planning professionals that aim to reflect on new notions of democratic practice and participatory planning. During these studios, different methods to enhance a collective reflective attitude among participants were tested. The paper describes how the…
Participation, for Whom? The Potential of Gamified Participatory Artefacts in Uncovering Power Relations within Urban Renewal Projects
Open AccessTeodora Iulia Constantinescu, Teodora Constantinescu et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2020
When defining participation in urban renewal projects in a political sense, this concept implies the challenging of power relations in each of its dimensions while addressing the need for knowledge, action and consciousness. Knowledge is defined as a resource which affects observable decision making. Action looks at who is involved in the production of such knowledge in order to challenge and shape the political agenda. Consciousness is how the p…
Dialectical Design Dialogues
Open AccessBarbara Roosen, Liesbeth Huybrechts et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2020
This article explores ‘dialectical design dialogues’ as an approach to engage with ethics in everyday urban planning contexts. It starts from Paulo Freire’s pedagogical view (1970/2017), in which dialogues imply the establishment of a horizontal relation between professionals and amateurs, in order to understand, question and imagine things in everyday reality, in this case, urban transformations, applied to participatory planning and enriched th…
Conceptualizing demographic shrinkage in a growing region – Creating opportunities for spatial practice
Open AccessTine Segers, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020
The making of Hoepertingen’
Open AccessSarah Martens, Sylvie Van Damme et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2020Citada por: 1Referências: 5
Architecture in Southern African informal settlements
Open AccessRudolf Perold, Ronnie Donaldson et al.ARTICLEUrbani izziv2019
Architectural professionals can contribute to efforts at achieving sustainable urbanism. However, the realm of professional discourse is extremely limited. Grounded architectural practice (GAP) is developed as a conceptual framework to explore an emergent form of contextually appropriate architectural practice in the context of a resident-driven in situ informal settlement upgrading project. The exploration takes the form of a descriptive narrati…
Flood‐resilient urban parks
Open AccessTo Quyen Le, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEArea2019Referências: 17
Coastal cities are increasingly suffering from flooding events. At the same time, these cities are experiencing a process of rapid urbanisation. This paper introduces “flood‐resilient urban parks” as a strategy to address both challenges. It presents a working definition and proposes a conceptual framework to start developing such parks
Portraits of work
Teodora Iulia Constantinescu, Teodora Constantinescu et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2018
Today’s patterns of work are very much defined by the ‘lean enterprise’ practice, taking form in organizations that are more competitive, customer-driven and agile on the one hand (Womack, J. P., & Jones, D. T. (2007). Lean Solutions. New York: Simon & Schuster), and the separation of work from time and space on the other (Hochschild, A. (1997). The time bind. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books). Concepts like work and workspace are subject to an e…
The Gamification of Civic Participation
Oswald Devisch, Alenka Poplin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2016
For civic participation to lead to sustainable civic engagement, participants need to go through a process of collective reflection. Games have been put forward as tools to support this process. The commercialization of the Internet, mobile communication devices, and sensing technologies precipitated a substantial increase in the development and use of games, gamified environments, and playful experiences, to the extent that scholars speak of the…
From Sharing to Experimenting
Oswald Devisch, Daniel VeestraetenARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2013
Citizen science is a term used to describe the engagement of ordinary citizens in scientific tasks like observation, measurement, and computation. A series of technological innovations, such as the Internet, the upgrade of mobile phones from communication devices to networked mobile personal measurement devices, and the introduction of self-assessment applications to use with them, redefined the activity of citizen science, providing amateur scie…
An Agent-Based Model of Residential Choice Dynamics in Nonstationary Housing Markets
Open AccessOswald T J Devisch, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2009Citada por: 1Referências: 10
This paper presents an agent-based model developed to simulate residential choice behaviour in a nonstationary housing market. The model is built around the assumption that agents have incomplete and imperfect knowledge, and thus have to base their decisions on beliefs. The aim is to illustrate how the agents deal with the uncertainty inherent in these beliefs, both at the level of a single agent, deciding among a set of successive actions, and a…

An Agent-Based Model of Residential Choice Dynamics in Nonstationary Housing Markets
Open AccessOswald T J Devisch, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2009Citada por: 1Referências: 10
This paper presents an agent-based model developed to simulate residential choice behaviour in a nonstationary housing market. The model is built around the assumption that agents have incomplete and imperfect knowledge, and thus have to base their decisions on beliefs. The aim is to illustrate how the agents deal with the uncertainty inherent in these beliefs, both at the level of a single agent, deciding among a set of successive actions, and a…
From Sharing to Experimenting
Oswald Devisch, Daniel VeestraetenARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2013
Citizen science is a term used to describe the engagement of ordinary citizens in scientific tasks like observation, measurement, and computation. A series of technological innovations, such as the Internet, the upgrade of mobile phones from communication devices to networked mobile personal measurement devices, and the introduction of self-assessment applications to use with them, redefined the activity of citizen science, providing amateur scie…
The Gamification of Civic Participation
Oswald Devisch, Alenka Poplin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2016
For civic participation to lead to sustainable civic engagement, participants need to go through a process of collective reflection. Games have been put forward as tools to support this process. The commercialization of the Internet, mobile communication devices, and sensing technologies precipitated a substantial increase in the development and use of games, gamified environments, and playful experiences, to the extent that scholars speak of the…
Portraits of work
Teodora Iulia Constantinescu, Teodora Constantinescu et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2018
Today’s patterns of work are very much defined by the ‘lean enterprise’ practice, taking form in organizations that are more competitive, customer-driven and agile on the one hand (Womack, J. P., & Jones, D. T. (2007). Lean Solutions. New York: Simon & Schuster), and the separation of work from time and space on the other (Hochschild, A. (1997). The time bind. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books). Concepts like work and workspace are subject to an e…
Architecture in Southern African informal settlements
Open AccessRudolf Perold, Ronnie Donaldson et al.ARTICLEUrbani izziv2019
Architectural professionals can contribute to efforts at achieving sustainable urbanism. However, the realm of professional discourse is extremely limited. Grounded architectural practice (GAP) is developed as a conceptual framework to explore an emergent form of contextually appropriate architectural practice in the context of a resident-driven in situ informal settlement upgrading project. The exploration takes the form of a descriptive narrati…
Flood‐resilient urban parks
Open AccessTo Quyen Le, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEArea2019Referências: 17
Coastal cities are increasingly suffering from flooding events. At the same time, these cities are experiencing a process of rapid urbanisation. This paper introduces “flood‐resilient urban parks” as a strategy to address both challenges. It presents a working definition and proposes a conceptual framework to start developing such parks
Participation, for Whom? The Potential of Gamified Participatory Artefacts in Uncovering Power Relations within Urban Renewal Projects
Open AccessTeodora Iulia Constantinescu, Teodora Constantinescu et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2020
When defining participation in urban renewal projects in a political sense, this concept implies the challenging of power relations in each of its dimensions while addressing the need for knowledge, action and consciousness. Knowledge is defined as a resource which affects observable decision making. Action looks at who is involved in the production of such knowledge in order to challenge and shape the political agenda. Consciousness is how the p…
Dialectical Design Dialogues
Open AccessBarbara Roosen, Liesbeth Huybrechts et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2020
This article explores ‘dialectical design dialogues’ as an approach to engage with ethics in everyday urban planning contexts. It starts from Paulo Freire’s pedagogical view (1970/2017), in which dialogues imply the establishment of a horizontal relation between professionals and amateurs, in order to understand, question and imagine things in everyday reality, in this case, urban transformations, applied to participatory planning and enriched th…
Conceptualizing demographic shrinkage in a growing region – Creating opportunities for spatial practice
Open AccessTine Segers, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020
The making of Hoepertingen’
Open AccessSarah Martens, Sylvie Van Damme et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2020Citada por: 1Referências: 5
Places For continuous learning on spatial planning issues – reflections on an experiment
Oswald Devisch, Majken Toftager Larsen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2022
Ever since the eighties, spatial planners have been approaching planning processes as learning processes. In this article we argue that such learning processes not only require a trajectory that helps groups to reflect in and on their actions, but also a trajectory that helps these groups to learn how to participate in such reflections. We refer to such a trajectory as a Place for Continuous Learning. The aim of the article is to explore how to d…
Learning to reflect collectively
Open AccessSeppe De Blust, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2022
Spatial planning as a field in continuous transition needs a way of working that allows for questioning its professional practice. In this paper, we focus on the design of 4-days long ‘studios’ for planning professionals that aim to reflect on new notions of democratic practice and participatory planning. During these studios, different methods to enhance a collective reflective attitude among participants were tested. The paper describes how the…
Experiential Evaluation to Create Risky Situations and Address Tensions in a Participatory Planning Process
Open AccessLieve Custers, Liesbeth Huybrechts et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2023
Planning processes often cause tensions between institutions and citizens because the local knowledge and values of the citizens are not included in the decision-making process, which can cause mistrust. This article builds on an ongoing PhD research that explores the potential of experiential evaluation as an alternative and experimental approach to “hybrid forums”: an approach to open the participatory planning process for diverse actors and va…
Participatory Retrofitting Through Extended Planners in Tanzanian Urban Areas
Open AccessManyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2025
The global endeavour to develop inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and human settlements is paramount. Land use conflicts in urban areas persist as a critical issue among stakeholders in contemporary urban development discourse. This article examines the effectiveness of local mediation strategies in resolving land use conflicts within East African cities’ rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. It focuses explicitly on community-ba…
Self-Organized Social and Physical Livelihood Assets in State-Driven Urban Developments
Richard Besha, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEDesign and Culture2025Referências: 7
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, local actors through self-organized practices that contribute to livelihoods generate the lived space amidst top-down processes in commercial streets. We employed a design anthropological approach in studying how inhabitants create, use and thrive in these spaces. We analyze and discuss the social and physical assets of commercial streets in the context of planned neighborhoods that are governed by regulations. We reve…
Adapting to Urban planning contradictions in community-led initiatives in growing African Cities
Open AccessManyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEUrban Governance2025
Mapping spontaneous conflicts
Open AccessManyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2026Referências: 9