Wendy Wuyts
Biographic Data
| ID | 5773594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Wuyts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wuyts |
| SIGNATURE | WUYTS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7383-2428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Envisioning circular futures in shrinking cities and regions: Goal dependencies underpinning transition drivers
As the circular economy gains traction as an alternative sustainability paradigm, its translation into local and regional policy frameworks reveals a spectrum of interpretations shaped by divergent goals. Consequently, the adoption of the circular economy agenda becomes highly contingent upon context-specific governance visions and priorities. This paper explores how the circular economy is mobilised in two structurally shrinking European regions…
Imagining inclusive circular cities: The role of social fiction in planning education
This practice review describes the social fiction method, utilized in combination with debriefing, as a tool to boost imagination and facilitate deep reflection on the social dimension of spatial imaginaries of circular cities and urban metabolism. Using critical social science theories and methods, the educator developed an interactive workshop that prompted adult students to reflect on how their backgrounds and values influence their imaginatio…
Finding Satoyama – Forest bathing as a creative practice of knowledge creation and healing in/with/through damaged landscapes
Many people in the Western world are estranged from the more-than-human world, which negatively impacts their health and well-being. This article investigates the effect of forest bathing as an intervention on how designers and other citizens can reconnect with nature. Walking, talking, and sitting spot practices are not only research methods that help to understand the histories and interdependencies of a landscape and contribute to society and …
The Nettle Spinner
Definitive illustrations for "The Nettle Spinner" by Wendy Wuyts
An Ash Tree in Os
Creative writing
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: Unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies
This study explores diverse circular economies and methods of multispecies ethnography in Vorselaar, Belgium and Røros, Norway, to identify care-full justice in small-scale places and to challenge traditional anthropocentric and capitalocentric models. This study unearths circular site stories in Vorselaar’s community-driven sustainability practices and Røros’s integration of cultural heritage in its sustainability approach, highlighting the need…
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes
This paper aims to apply an intersectional environmentalist lens to the circular economy (CE) transition in Flanders. CE discourse often takes a deterritorialised approach, that is, a focus on innovation and growth. This approach tends to neglect local knowledge and background skills that can inhabit and work with landscapes in balanced ways to enable a fully circular society. This knowledge is partly embodied by “nobodied” actors. After introduc…
Tensions and Invisible Costs in Co-Creating Nature-Based Health Knowledge in Brussels
The main purpose of this study was to provide a critique of the depoliticising funding call for co-creation research on urban resilience and sustainability while advocating that urban sustainability should remain political and require a political sphere. This study illustrated the invisible costs of undertaking co-creation research and, more specifically, the power imbalance between different groups of co-researchers, which creates tensions. Our …
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy
Sustainability and a less resource intense way of living is increasingly becoming a necessity in the wake of increased environmental degradation and global warming. In this context, the concept of circular economy becomes relevant. The study presents how an eco-fiction can help garner more support for circular economy among citizens by making the abstract idea of circular economy more relatable and accessible. The paper is an auto-ethnographic re…
Urban development and sustainability challenges chronicled by a century of construction material flows and stocks in Tiexi, China
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy
Sustainability and a less resource intense way of living is increasingly becoming a necessity in the wake of increased environmental degradation and global warming. In this context, the concept of circular economy becomes relevant. The study presents how an eco-fiction can help garner more support for circular economy among citizens by making the abstract idea of circular economy more relatable and accessible. The paper is an auto-ethnographic re…
Tensions and Invisible Costs in Co-Creating Nature-Based Health Knowledge in Brussels
The main purpose of this study was to provide a critique of the depoliticising funding call for co-creation research on urban resilience and sustainability while advocating that urban sustainability should remain political and require a political sphere. This study illustrated the invisible costs of undertaking co-creation research and, more specifically, the power imbalance between different groups of co-researchers, which creates tensions. Our …
Urban development and sustainability challenges chronicled by a century of construction material flows and stocks in Tiexi, China
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes
This paper aims to apply an intersectional environmentalist lens to the circular economy (CE) transition in Flanders. CE discourse often takes a deterritorialised approach, that is, a focus on innovation and growth. This approach tends to neglect local knowledge and background skills that can inhabit and work with landscapes in balanced ways to enable a fully circular society. This knowledge is partly embodied by “nobodied” actors. After introduc…
Tensions and Invisible Costs in Co-Creating Nature-Based Health Knowledge in Brussels
The main purpose of this study was to provide a critique of the depoliticising funding call for co-creation research on urban resilience and sustainability while advocating that urban sustainability should remain political and require a political sphere. This study illustrated the invisible costs of undertaking co-creation research and, more specifically, the power imbalance between different groups of co-researchers, which creates tensions. Our …
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy
Sustainability and a less resource intense way of living is increasingly becoming a necessity in the wake of increased environmental degradation and global warming. In this context, the concept of circular economy becomes relevant. The study presents how an eco-fiction can help garner more support for circular economy among citizens by making the abstract idea of circular economy more relatable and accessible. The paper is an auto-ethnographic re…
Finding Satoyama – Forest bathing as a creative practice of knowledge creation and healing in/with/through damaged landscapes
Many people in the Western world are estranged from the more-than-human world, which negatively impacts their health and well-being. This article investigates the effect of forest bathing as an intervention on how designers and other citizens can reconnect with nature. Walking, talking, and sitting spot practices are not only research methods that help to understand the histories and interdependencies of a landscape and contribute to society and …
The Nettle Spinner
Definitive illustrations for "The Nettle Spinner" by Wendy Wuyts
An Ash Tree in Os
Creative writing
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: Unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies
This study explores diverse circular economies and methods of multispecies ethnography in Vorselaar, Belgium and Røros, Norway, to identify care-full justice in small-scale places and to challenge traditional anthropocentric and capitalocentric models. This study unearths circular site stories in Vorselaar’s community-driven sustainability practices and Røros’s integration of cultural heritage in its sustainability approach, highlighting the need…
Envisioning circular futures in shrinking cities and regions: Goal dependencies underpinning transition drivers
As the circular economy gains traction as an alternative sustainability paradigm, its translation into local and regional policy frameworks reveals a spectrum of interpretations shaped by divergent goals. Consequently, the adoption of the circular economy agenda becomes highly contingent upon context-specific governance visions and priorities. This paper explores how the circular economy is mobilised in two structurally shrinking European regions…
Imagining inclusive circular cities: The role of social fiction in planning education
This practice review describes the social fiction method, utilized in combination with debriefing, as a tool to boost imagination and facilitate deep reflection on the social dimension of spatial imaginaries of circular cities and urban metabolism. Using critical social science theories and methods, the educator developed an interactive workshop that prompted adult students to reflect on how their backgrounds and values influence their imaginatio…
Geography (6 works) · Circular economy (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Sustainable Supply Chain Management (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Autoethnography (3 works) · Social science (3 works)