Elien Stouten is an FWO-funded PhD researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), KU Leuven, and a member of TRANSFORM’s Idiosyncratic Inventors Collective.
Trained in Sociology (MSc. at KU Leuven) and Urban Studies (Erasmus Mundus joint MSc. ‘4CITIES’), she is interested in themes of mobility justice and inclusive participatory methods in the context of urban sustainable mobility transitions.
Her doctoral research combines more "conventional" citizen co-design workshops with pop-up interventions in public spaces to explore whether and under which conditions these methods allow for the inclusion of diverse citizen experiences into the co-design process. In doing so, the research aims to broaden participation to those who are often absent from "formal" research settings and contribute to the becoming of alternative mobility scenarios for Brussels and Copenhagen that are ideally more just and socially sustainable.