18/03/2026
I trained as an architect.
For years I designed spaces — learning to see systems, understand people, and think about how everything connects before touching a single detail.
At some point I realised the most interesting thing I was building wasn’t the buildings. It was the relationships around them.
So I pivoted.
Today I run donck.studio — a business development studio for small, innovative teams building things the world hasn’t fully caught up with yet. I open doors. I build pipelines. I connect the right people to the right ideas at the right moment.
My clients range from a peer-to-peer energy sharing network to a real-time animation pipeline to circular building materials made from excavated Brussels soil.
Architecture taught me everything I needed. Just not in the way I expected.
The future is built at the intersections. That’s where I work.
→ donck.studio
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