Johan De Walsche is an engineer architect, trained at the KU Leuven, and currently full-time academic staff member at the Faculty of Design Sciences. His research interest focusses on design research methodology and architectural design education and its relation with research and practice. He is founding member of ISTT – international studies, territories in transition – an interdisciplinary design research studio on building culture in non-Western urban and rural territories in transition (Egypt, Morocco, Suriname, Nicaragua). Johan De Walsche is founding member of EAAE Education Academy and the ARENA architectural  research network.