The pop-up exhibition Intersections: Invisible in Architecture will open on 16 May. It is the culmination of a series of workshops that critically examine the relationship between architecture and social, economic and political power structures. The opening event consists of a conversation between co-curators Hülya Ertas (VAi) and Luce Beeckmans (KU Leuven) together with workshop moderators Ken De Cooman (BC Architects), Dounia Salamé (researcher at KU Leuven) and Paulien Gekiere (Dear Architects,). The conversation will be enriched by interventions of performer/singer Calya J. All this with a snack and a drink.
Intersections: Invisible in Architecture is a pop-up exhibition on the marginalised or silenced actors in architectural production. Co-curated by Hülya Ertas and Luce Beeckmans, the exhibition is based on three workshops that took place from March to May 2023. In these workshops, more than 70 participants gathered to critically approach the entangled relations between architecture and social, economic and political structures of power.
The social and environmental impacts of construction sites, repositioning architecture from the margins and working conditions in the sector were tackled under the moderation of Ken De Cooman, Ola Hassanain and Paulien Gekiere. The exhibition reflects these topics with illustrations by Aya Akbib and the image galleries and quotes workshops participants collectively built up throughout the workshops.
more about the exhibitionHülya Ertas is the coordinator of exhibitions and publications at the Flanders Architecture Institute. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University in 2005 and completed her master’s degree in architecture at the same school in 2011. From 2004 to 2020 she worked at the monthly XXI Architecture and Design Magazine, becoming its editor-in-chief in 2013. Now based in Brussels, she is a PhD candidate at Sint-Lucas, KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture. She explores architecture’s social engagement focusing on the commons, care and critique.
Luce Beeckmans is a research professor at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven. Studying the materialities of transnational migration at multiple spatial scales, her research is situated at the intersection of migration, city and architecture. She graduated as an engineer-architect (option urban planning) at Ghent University in 2005. In 2013, she obtained a PhD-degree from Groningen University with an award-winning dissertation in which she studied colonial and post-colonial urban development in sub-Saharan Africa from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
16.05.2023
18:30h
free, but you need to register
DE SINGEL, Music Studio
Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp (BE)
Flanders Architecture Institute and DE SINGEL
