Research and Innovation play a prominent role at Luca School of Arts. LUCA Faculty of Arts leads on inspiring and facilitating research across a wide variety of disciplines- visual arts, audiovisual arts, performing arts, music and design. The researchers of LUCA Pro support industry and small and medium-sized organisations to develop innovative solutions to their real-world problems.
Drawing from practice and theory, our research cultivates the rich creative environments of our 5 campuses (Brussels, Genk, Ghent and Leuven), enriching our students' practice and overall knowledge. Luca also collaborates with KU Leuven on its PhD programme in the arts, further demonstrating our leading status as a centre for excellence in the fields of artistic research.
Doctorate in the arts
Interested in doing a doctorate in the arts at LUCA Faculty of the Arts? The first step is that you need to find a supervisor who is willing to support your research project.
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Research projects
Mostafa Youssef: The Idol Shop: Toppled Stillness. The Performance of Iconoclasm in Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
Doctoral project in the Arts by Mostafa Youssef
Vincent Thornhill: Automated optimisation of smartphone imagery: A search for alternative conceptions of the ideal through computational photography
Doctoral project in the Arts by Vincent Thornhill
Veronika Romhàny: Only one discipline: define yourself! Mind Maps - collaborative digital art practices as self- and system critical tools
Doctoral project in the Arts by Veronika Romhàny
Konstantina Kapsali: Towards Vera, the Girl Next Door. A study on the essay film as a personal journey into a neighborhood’s archaeology
Doctoral project in the Arts by Konstantina Kapsali
Nairy Eivazy: The Objects We Carry, the Memories We Share
Doctoral project in the Arts by Nairy Eivazy
Jay Mar Albaos: Belgium’s Paperless: Lived Precarity in Futureless Paradigms
Doctoral project in the Arts by Jay Mar Albaos
Anneke Rombaut: A commercial break lasts as long as an abdominal muscle workout
Gert Keyaerts: iFiction
Open source modular casting mold system
The Exploration of Specific Modalities of Musical Co-Play in Relation to Psychopathology
UNMUTED
Theatre Making as praxis in Artistic Secondary Education (KSO)
Study on the health & wellbeing of music creators
Music and Dementia
"Les Cloches de Corneville". A practice-based research on carillon transcriptions and arrangements of opera's in the 19th century
OPAK-project
Vulnerability as a strength
Improvisation for all! Pupils’ experiences with collective free improvisation in the classroom.
Composition+
Ctrl_Alt_Del
Body & Performativity embodied
Wild Matters
THE ! Technology in Health Care
Stiemerlab
(Re)designing for the moments in between
PLINTH
Not in my backyard
‘Make-Machines’: building custom digital fabrication machines by non-experts
Informal circuits
Heart & Sweat
Diversity in cultural education
Diversifying Design Education
Custom Territory Antwerp
Certification-D
Circle Sector
Cinema Zoology
At Home. Artistic and Designerly Practices to reinforce the Feeling of Home in Residential Care for People with Dementia
OPAK-project
Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys: (In)site, Site-related Photography Revised
Rituals for phones and hands
REDRAWING CHILDHOOD - archival research
TAPTA Unraveled
Sound Type. Development of a set of graphic symbols that expands the visual rendition of soundtracks in audiovisual communication
OPAK-project