Early Modern Notions of Privacy in a Northern European context

Sanne Maekelberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies. Her research focuses on early modern courtly architecture and the itinerant lifestyle of the nobility and monarchs.

Through the case studies of Chatsworth and Copenhagen she looks at instances of spatial privacy, especially the concept of open hospitality at court and the relation between representative building features and functional spaces. She is also the project manager of the MSCA ITN PALAMUSTO – Research and Training for the Palace Museum of Tomorrow. As an architectural engineer she combines approaches from architectural history with an interest in digital visualization techniques, especially digital reconstructions and mapping.

About Sanne Maekelberg
Sanne Maekelberg is a Postdoctoral Researcher in architectural history at the Centre for Privacy Studies in association with the Royal Danish Academy. In 2019 she received her doctorate in architectural engineering from the KU Leuven (Belgium). Her Ph.D. focused on the residential network and architectural patronage of Charles of Croÿ (1560-1612), one of the highest noblemen in the Low Countries. 

In her current research on Copenhagen and Chatsworth she combines a wide range of sources specific to architectural history and history of the nobility with tools from the digital humanities, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).