Institutioning as Action: Mediating Grassroots Labor and Government Work for Sustainable Transitions
Liesbeth Huybrechts
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-4620
UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Liesbeth Huybrechts is an associate professor with the ArcK research group at Hasselt University, Belgium. Her work focuses on participatory design, design anthropology, and environmental transformation processes, with research interests that include designing for/with participatory exchanges and capacity-building processes between humans and the material/natural environment, as well as examining the implicit “politics” of such relationships.
Dolores Van Den Eynde
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5477-2442
UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Belgium
Dolores Van den Eynde researches political science, participatory design, and policy design at the ArcK research group at Hasselt University, Belgium. With an academic background in international politics and communication studies, her research focuses on understanding, facilitating, and designing processes that enhance public participation.
Gasper Kabendela
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2468-049X
UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium/Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania/Institute of Rural Development Planning, Dodoma, Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic Of
Gasper Kabendela is a PhD researcher and volunteer research assistant at Hasselt University, Belgium. He is also an assistant lecturer at Tanzania’s Institute of Rural Development Planning in Dodoma and a research fellow at Ardhi University. With a background in Urban and Regional Planning, he has over 10 years of experience working as a town planner with several local government authorities serving various communities. His research primarily focuses on participatory land use planning and conflict resolution techniques.
Elke Knapen
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1249-9633
UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Belgium
Elke Knapen is an associate professor and academic coordinator of the Building Beyond Borders program at Hasselt University, where participants engage in participatory design and seek to develop projects with positive social-ecological impacts. Her research focuses on regenerative design combining theoretical knowledge with hands-on experiments and real-world applications.
Janepher Kimaro
UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium/Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania/Institute of Rural Development Planning, Dodoma, Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic Of
Janepher Shedrack Kimaro is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Planning and Management at Ardhi University and Hasselt University in Belgium. She holds a joint Master’s of Regional Development Planning from the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of the Philippines, as well as a BSc in Housing and Infrastructure Planning from Ardhi University. She is an Assistant Lecturer at the School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences at Ardhi University and a registered town planner with Tanzania’s Town Planners Registration Board. Her research topic is Participatory Planning and Land Use Conflict Management in Demarcated Conflict Areas in Dar es Salaam.
Fredrick Magina
Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic Of
Fredrick Magina is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences (SSPSS) and the Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP). He holds PhD in Urban Planning from TU Dortmund University, Germany. Fredrick has experience in teaching and research particularly on access to land and resource use conflict management, urban housing, regional development planning, participatory land use planning, and regularization of informal settlements.