Ruth Kennivé (1989, Tielt) graduated in 2012 as a master in engineering sciences - architecture, option urban design from the University of Ghent. Her master's thesis consisted of a historical lecture about the Avenue Kasa-Vubu in Kinshasa, Congo, culminating in an urban atlas and was awarded with a great distinction.

After her studies, Ruth worked as a stage designer and researcher at the Brussels collective Rotor on a retrospective exhibition in the context of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as project architect at De Smet Vermeulen architects in Ghent, where she combined research projects with highly implementation-oriented projects. For example, she was responsible for the PDPO research by design into the reclassification of parish churches and she was the implementing architect for the initial phase of Ostend police station. In addition, Ruth was the lead researcher in the Zorg 2 pilot projects and the IABR – 2016 Project atelier Utrecht, The Healthy City, in which she collaborated with Architecture Workroom Brussels for the first time.

As a result of this experience, Ruth made the switch to AWB, where she has been working as project manager since 2018 on, among other things, the IABR – 2018 + 2020 Project Atelier for the East Flemish Core Region and the Drought Experimental Gardens. Within AWB, she also provides support to the integrated implementation programme Water + Land + Scape and the Open Space Platform.