Pelgrims Claire (PhD) is a researcher in Architecture and Urbanism at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her PhD thesis focuses on imaginaries of fast and slow mobilities in the evolution of Brussels mobility infrastructure since the middle of the 20th century. Her postdoctoral research focuses on expanded understanding of mobility infrastructure in relation to gender, aestheticism and functionality. She is involved, within Sasha, in the PDR FNRS « Gender and Bicycling Aesthetics: the potentiel for the sustainable city of gender construction processes across cycling practices, equipment and infrastructure » (2021-2024)
Claire has also been involved in researches on Brussels metropolitan cultural and mobility infrastructures (18th-21st century) (micm-ARC) and on sustainable transition of company mobility (BSI chair). Associate researcher at the Laboratory on Urban Sociology [LaSUR], EPFL, since 2017, she has joined T2M Executive Committee in 2019 and is involved as member in the French ‘Passé, present mobilité’ [P2M] network and in the International Ambiances Network
Journées interdisciplinaires de la recherche et de l’enseignement sur Bruxelles à l’ULB du 16 au 18 octobre 2024.
Journée d’étude internationale / 25.06.2024 9h à 17h30 salle R.42.5.107 Bâtiment R Site Solbosch
Lundi 13.03.2023 de 9h45 à 17h, Université Saint-Louis – Local P61
Les acquis de l’Observatoire de la mobilité et le projet Genre et esthétique du vélo
Claire Pelgrims – Entre imaginaire de vitesse et de lenteur. L’évolution des infrastructures de mobilité à Bruxelles depuis le milieu du 20e siècle
Le potentiel pour la ville durable des processus de construction de genre liés aux pratiques, équipements et infrastructures cyclistes