alexandre bossard
urbanist & geographer
Archisols
2024 - present | Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Archisols co-creation research (funded by Innoviris) aims to improve the use of Brussels soils by documenting past activities that may have impacted their quality.
LOGOS-RES
2023 - present | Université Catholique de Louvain
The prospective research LOGOS-RES (funded by Innoviris) focuses on the renovation of modernist social housing complexes. My tasks include creating a prospective mapping of the context of these complexes.
Mapping Tools
2021 - present | Université Libre de Bruxelles
Teaching the Mapping Tools course as part of the specialization master's in urbanism. This course (18h) aims to enable students to master mapping tools and to know the different existing data sources.
3Dcit-is
2021 - 2023 | Université Catholique de Louvain
Research on the environmental impacts of land use changes, using a three-dimensional approach.
INEG
2021 | Université Libre de Bruxelles
Research on environmental inequalities in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Labo XX+I
2020 | Université Catholique de Louvain
Cartographic research on the 20th century belt in and around Brussels.
Assessing urban soil unsealing constraints and potential for water regulation: a framework and case study of Brussels-Capital Region
2025 | Journal of Delta Urbanism (with C. Cavalieri)
3-dimensional Geospatial Analysis And Visualization For Urban Environmental Assessments: A Case Study Of A Neighborhood Located In The Brussels Capital Region
2024 | AMPS proceedings series (with K. Ntassiou, E. Agudo Sierra, C. Cavalieri, M. Llaguno-Munitxa)
Adapting a Brussels urban regeneration tool to the specific characteristics of a large social housing estate. The case of the Sustainable Neighbourhood Contract Peterbos
2024 | Modern Futures: Sustainable Development and Cultural Diversity (with M. Bos, G. Marino, C. Cavalieri)
Reconstructing urban soil genesis using historical maps and archival documents: the case of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels’s 20th-century belt
2025 | Urbanism&Urbanisation International PhD seminar (Venice)
Urban Soil Assessment: Limiting Negative Environmental Impacts and Optimising Ecological Benefits of Urban Soil Transformation
2023 | EURA 2023 (with C. Cavalieri, O. Ska, J. Pourtois)
Underground systems. A framework for urban soil assessment
2022 | International Forum on Urbanism, IFoU 2022 (with C. Cavalieri, O. Ska)
An Interdisciplinary Framework for Evaluating Urban Soil Transformation
2023 | Beyond Metropolization, Exploring new hybrids
ATLAS. 20th century urbanization in and around Brussels: Exploration of the area based on twelve urban questions.
2021 | (with C. Cavalieri, M. Dehaene, B. Grosjean, G. Leloutre, A. Colson, C. Liénart, P. Viganò)