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Featured projects

Discover our ongoing and completed research initiatives spanning futures research, inclusive design, and living lab methodologies.
URBANAGE
Finished
01/02/2021
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31/01/2024
Project funding: 
Horizon 2020
Developing Digial Twin technologies for age-friendly Smart Cities.
CityTraQ
Finished
01/05/2024
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01/05/2025
Project funding: 
City of Ghent
Cocreative development of public interfaces to raise awareness aound air quality and mobility choices, focussed on school areas.
Digital Solutions for Civic Participation
Finished
01/12/2022
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04/06/2023
Project funding: 
Flemish Government
An exploration (including concept development, prototyping and field trials) of emerging in-situ technologies for civic participation, focussed on adolescents.
Smart products, complex interactions
Finished
06/01/2021
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04/09/2024
Project funding: 
various
Unraveling the complexity of user interactions in the design process of smart products and emerging technologies. The development the HCCI (human-computer-context-interaction) framework.
Exploring the Nature of Virtual Reality User Testing in New Product Development Processes
Finished
23/07/2026
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04/11/2025
Project funding: 
various
This project explored the boundaries between real-world and hybrid VR/XR prototyping and user testing.
Understanding knowledge, imagination and reflection in participatory futures
Finished
01/02/2026
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30/09/2025
Project funding: 
AAP
This project explored the nature of participatory futures processes, and the interplay between actefacts and acors to generate knowlegde and collactively imagine.
Living Lab Methodologies for Emerging HealthCare technologies
Ongoing
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Project funding: 
AAP
PhD Futures & Foresight
Ongoing
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Project funding: 
imec
CitCom
Ongoing
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Project funding: 
EU TEF
EXPANSEAI
Ongoing
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Project funding: 
HORIZON
CORESpaces
Ongoing
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Project funding: 
HORIZON
CamoTEXtreme
Ongoing
09/02/2026
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04/02/2029
Project funding: 
EDA
CamoTEXTtreme is a European collaboration to develop Multifunctional Textiles for Camouflage and Resistance to Extreme Environmental Conditions.

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Bibliotheek De Krook, Miriam Makebaplein 1, 9000 Gent
Bastiaan.Baccarne@UGent.be