Carmen Van Maercke (°1990, Ronse) obtained her master's degree in engineering - architecture, option urban design at Ghent University in 2013. She then followed the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism (EMU) at the KU Leuven and the IUAV in Venice. She completed this study in 2015 with the thesis 'Dirty Antwerp: re-engineering flows, editing the 20th century belt'. This thesis was the basis for a project of the same name, for which Carmen Van Maercke, together with Caterina Rosso and the Research Group for Urban Planning and Architecture (OSA) of the KU Leuven received the BWMSTR Label in 2015. As part of this project, she was co-curator of the exhibition 'Een nieuwe kijk op afval' in deSingel in Antwerp. She also worked for a while at Studio Paola Viganò, where she worked on the Dessel Landscape Park and the reconversion of the hospital site in Maaseik. 

Carmen joined Architecture Workroom Brussels (AWB) in January 2016. Within the AWB team, she is project leader for innovative projects relating to unsealing, integrated and socio-spatial projects, and water. Amongst others, she is involved as project leader in the start-up of the Unsealing Experimental Gardens Project  commissioned by the Environment Department, the expertise assignment 'System thinking in practice: imagining integrated projects (and coalitions) from the point of view of the water task', the Brussels Municipal Water Plan and the IABR-Atelier Oost-Vlaams Kerngebied. In addition to cartographic and design research, Carmen also carried out process supervision and participation in the study 'Kortrijk 2025, The city we can want', the perception and identity research for the city of Torhout, 'Mapping the shift of metropolitan phenomena in the twentieth-century belt' for the city of Antwerp, 'Lage Landen 2100', and so on.

Carmen's experience with mapping, spatial analysis and representation plays an important role in her work. She uses this experience for various purposes and target groups, from exhibitions and territorial mapping to socio-spatial projects. Carmen was involved in creating material for the exhibition Atelier Zennevallei in FeliXart in September 2017, at BULB (Brussels Urban Landscape Biennial) in BOZAR in September 2018, in the production of the OVK atlas and its visual translation into socio-spatial research, such as 'Mapping liveliness in neighbourhoods' or the concept study for Campus Bret Genk.

Carmen has already been asked several times as supervisor or jury member for master's theses on architecture and urban planning and design studios at KU Leuven (faculties of Architecture Ghent and Leuven), Ghent University (faculties of Architecture and Social Sciences), the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and ULB Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta.