Elisabeth Gérard qualified as an architect in 2022, graduating from La Cambre-Horta Faculty of Architecture at ULB with a thesis on the first generation of female architects in Belgium. This work led her to become a tour guide for L’architecture qui dégenre in 2021 and then as a project manager.

Today, she works as an architect at the Brussels firm agmen. At the same time, she is continuing her research at ULB as an assistant lecturer and researcher at the Hortence Laboratory.

After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta in 2018 and completing a master’s degree in gender studies at the FWB in 2023, Annabelle Hoffait worked for over three years at the architecture and urban planning firm MSA. This gave her the opportunity to participate in numerous urban planning studies and architectural projects for public procurement processes in Brussels. She joined L’architecture qui dégenre in 2022.

Annabelle is particularly interested in issues relating to the right to housing and the city in general; her gender studies master’s thesis was about gender in migration and access to employment, and was awarded the 2024 Women & Science Committee Prize.

Camille Kervella is an architect who graduated from UCL in 2020 with a dissertation on Sex in the city. She is interested in fundamental feminist and queer (LGBTQIA+) issues in built societies.

Now an architect, she expresses this interest through her activism and personal research. In embracing her identity as a queer woman who stands up for her rights, she shares a vision of our spaces – private and public, intimate and collective – that challenges traditional narratives.

Rosalie Lefebvre graduated as an architect from UCL in 2016. For over five years she worked at a number of architecture firms while fostering an interest in the impact of architecture on society and the environment. 

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After joining the L’architecture qui dégenre team in 2021, she moved into artisanal baking, a passion she now pursues alongside her work at the organisation.

Shana De Smedt gained a degree in cultural activities and continuing education at IHECS in 2021, and has been involved in various socio-cultural projects in Brussels since 2017.

She has a passion for music and cultural events and is involved in various collectives. Her projects focus on the use of public spaces and the inclusivity and visibility of women* artists and musicians. Shana has worked as a media and press relations manager at L’architecture qui dégenre since 2023.

Audrey Vanbrabant graduated in journalism from IHECS and has been working with various media outlets on a freelance basis since 2017. Audrey is passionate about writing and reading, and seeks to raise awareness of the work of women* (especially women artists) in various projects.

She has also produced two podcasts, Notes pour demain and Désenchantées, and written a children’s book on women’s history in Belgium, Les 30 femmes qui ont marqué l’histoire de la Belgique. At L’architecture qui dégenre, she has developed the Futur/Matrimoine media education workshops for secondary school pupils.

Apolline Vranken graduated in architecture from ULB in 2017, writing a dissertation entitled Des béguines à l’architecture féministe (‘From beguines to feminist architecture’; published by Université des Femmes, 2018). She founded the L’architecture qui dégenre in 2018 (which was then incorporated as a non-profit organisation in 2021) and initiated the first Belgian edition of Matrimony Days.

She worked for over two years as a project manager at the homelessness organisation L’Ilot - Sortir du sans-abrisme and as an architect. Today, in addition to her role as the organisation’s coordinator, she is an FNRS doctoral researcher at the Hortence Laboratory of the La Cambre-Horta Faculty of Architecture (ULB). Her research focuses on methodologies for a feminist history of architecture.