Research Publications

Vaneycken, A. (2025). Artist’s Project—Rasquinet Play Park: Reimagining The Junk Playground In Contemporary Brussels. Public Art Dialogue, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/21502552.2025.2535247.
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van Leeuwen, L., Vaneycken, A. & Paterson, C. (2022). Democratic Design Through Play. Conjunctions, 9(2) 1-12. https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2022-00012. >> read here

Vaneycken, A. (2020) Collectiveness as a Form of Autotheory. PARSE journal: Human, issue 12, Autumn. Gothenburg: Gothenburg University. >> read here

Vaneycken, A. (2020). Designing ‘for’ and ‘with’ ambiguity: actualising democratic processes in participatory design practices with children. [Doctoral dissertation, Gothenburg University] Gothenburg: ArtMonitor. >> read here

Vaneycken, A. (2017). Beyond the line: design for participation in the light of children’s culture. In D. Hamers, N. Bueno de Mesquita, A. Vaneycken, & J. Schoffelen (Eds.). Trading Places: practices of public participation in art and design research (pp. 67–80). Barcelona: dpr-barcelona. >> read here

Vaneycken, A. (2016). A playlist with Footnotes & Archive for Public Play. In H. Benesch, & J. Friberg (Eds.). Growing w/ design (pp. 35–53). Göteborg: HDK — Academy of Design and Crafts, Making Narratives 1. >> read here

Research Projects

2015-2020 — Office for Public Play & Designing 'for' and 'with' Ambiguity: Actualising Democratic Processes in Participatory Design Practices with Children
The project engaged five early-stage art and design researchers (incl. myself) and one sociological researcher, for them to test and develop a specific approach (intervention, performative mapping, play, data mining, modelling in dialogue, and curating) on which practitioners and researchers in art and design and related fields can rely when working in public space projects and public issues in a participatory way.

More information via the Office for Public Play website.

2014-2017 — TRADERS Training Art and Design Researchers in Participation for Public Space
TRADERS is a European-funded research project within the FP7 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions ITN. The project engaged five early-stage art and design researchers (incl. myself) and one sociological researcher, for them to test and develop a specific approach (intervention, performative mapping, play, data mining, modelling in dialogue, and curating) on which practitioners and researchers in art and design and related fields can rely when working in public space projects and public issues in a participatory way.

More information via the TRADERS website.