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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Mostafa Youssef: The Idol Shop: Toppled Stillness. The Performance of Iconoclasm in Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
Konstantina Kapsali: Towards Vera, the Girl Next Door. A study on the essay film as a personal journey into a neighborhood’s archaeology.
Doctoral projects (ongoing) Image
Vincent Thornhill:A search for alternative conceptions of the ideal through computational photography.
Nairy Eivazy: The Objects We Carry, the Memories We Share
Yana Dimitrova: Towards a Shared Autonomy. Painting as an Emancipatory Practice.
Doctoral project in the Arts by Yana Dimitrova
Wim Buts: Design 4.0: a research into strategies for designers in the 4th industrial revolution
Doctoral project in the Arts by Wim Buts
Vitor Candeias: EyeScape: Automation of Cinematic Narratives
Doctoral project in the Arts by Vitor Candeias
VirtuLApp
Vinicius Marquet: Remediating the collaborative storytelling workshop into digital mediated spaces
Doctoral project in the Arts by Vinicius Marquet
Vincent Caers: Living Scores Live - towards an extended and interdisciplinary contemporary percussion performance
Doctoral project in the Arts by Vincent Caers
Victor Somma: The composer as a co-creator of bridges between society and contemporary music: a matter of dialogue?
Doctoral project in the Arts by Victor Somma
Vicente Parrilla: On the Art of Counterpoint
Doctoral project in the Arts by Vicente Parrilla
Varun Sasindran: Film, Memory, Archive. An artistic inquiry into the mnemonic capacity of documentary film making
Doctoral project in the Arts by Varun Sasindran
Ula Sickle: Into the Gray Zone: A Research on the Inter-mediality of Choreographic Exhibitions
Doctoral Project in the Arts by Ula Sickle.
Toolbox as an awareness-raising tool to promote functional spatial quality in the tourism business sector
PWO-project
Tom Goossens: Singing while speaking and speaking while singing in contemporary opera performance
Doctoral project by Tom Goossens
Tiziano Manca: Writing the Flow: Time, Rhythm, and Western Music Notation
Doctoral project in the Arts by Tiziano Manca
Tine Guns: The photobook as a visual page turner: a pre- and post-cinema montage story
Doctoral project in the Arts by Tine Guns
Thomas Laureyssens: Tackling Urban Issues with Ludic Engagement
Doctoral project in the Arts by Thomas Laureyssens
Thomas Geudens: The Young Person's Guide to Orchestration
Doctoral project in the Arts bij Thomas Geudens
Thomas De Baets: “On-the-Spot Music Teaching”. The Music Teacher in Direct Musical Interactions
Doctoral Project in the Arts by Thomas De Baets
Teis de Greve: Hack your neighbourhood: Hacking as a critical practice in the smart city
Doctoral project in the Arts by Teis de Greve
Sylvie Vandenhoucke: THE ERRANT SYSTEM AS STRATEGY
Doctoral project in the Arts by Sylvie Vandenhoucke
Stijn Van Dorpe: Dissensus and Connection as Artistic Tactics.
Doctoral project in the Arts by Stijn Van Dorpe
Steve Michiels: Self-censorship - corrected thoughts of an artist "Which visual censorship is necessary today?"
Doctoral project in the Arts by Steve Michiels
STEM & VORK
STARTS4Water
Sofie Gagelmans: Beneath the surface of cognitive diversity: creating simulation-developments that convey the visual symptoms of dyslexia
Doctoral project in the Arts by Sofie Gagelmans