Marine Declève is a PhD candidate at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) and Metrolab Brussels (UCLouvain and ULB, Belgium). She earned a master’s degree in Art History and Archaeology (UCLouvain, 2009) and a master’s degree in Urbanism and Strategic Planning (KULeuven and EMU, 2015). She conducts her PhD under the guidance of Elena Cogato Lanza. Through an iconographic and cartographic investigation, her research focuses on the relationship to the city of local manufacturing activities, specifically those that fuelled the building of Brussels and contributed to the transformation of its urban space at different times in its history.