Claire Pelgrims
Pelgrims Claire (PhD) is a researcher in Architecture and Urbanism at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her PhD thesis focused on imaginaries of fast and slow mobilities in the evolution of Brussels mobility infrastructure since the middle of the 20th century. Her 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 been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie posdoctoral research fellow at Université Gustave Eiffel (SENCyclo, 2022-2023).
She 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 Institute of City and Arts, Waseda University (2023), at the Observatoire du Vélo et des Mobilités Actives, UNILausanne (2022) and at Laboratory on Urban Sociology, EPFL (2017-20), 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.
contact: claire.pelgrims@ulb.ac.be