Internationals aan het woord

What does inclusivity mean to you?

Each year, KU Leuven becomes the home of more than 50.000 students. More or less 1/6 of them is an international student. Seeing as they make up such an important part of the student body, we wanted to broaden the view on the topic of inclusivity and ask them:

'What is your definition of inclusivity?'

The new building can appropriately exist in the historical environment and play a modern role.

Zongwei Dou, Politecnico di Milano

The woman in the painting from the building in the Faculty of Arts of Leuven reminded me of my reason to be here: to work for being my true-self, to be proud of what I have become, to be aware of the power of my presence everywhere.

Rafaella Greties, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Inclusivity is the manifestation of the sense of belonging or in other words, feeling comfortable in a certain space or situation. When designing it's of great importance to consider all the means in which a space can exist to sense each user without compromise. I acknowledge the fact that it is not possible to meet the needs of every person, but rather to serve as many people as possible, by embracing diversity regarding accesibility, gender, culture, age and many other characteristics that form our uniqueness.

Vancea Daciana-Briana, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

For me, inclusivity is a kind of open mind that can accept different thoughts in many fields.

Jiawei Zheng, Politecnico di Milano