On 23 February, the Flanders Architecture Institute will screen the documentary La vie en kit (Life Assembled) in DE SINGEL. Director Elodie Degavre (UCLouvain) takes you on a journey through houses that were the result of participation experiments fifty years ago. Guided by the architects of that time: Simone and Lucien Kroll, Jean Englebert and Paul Petit. Find out how building and living relate to each other, in the past, today and in the future.
A city of steel that's causing a lot of talk in the neighborhood. Japanese houses designed by their future buyers. A building site in kit form entrusted to students. In Charleroi, Liège and Brussels, three architects and a handful of utopian inhabitants will put their housing ideals into practice. Just out of May 68, they want to demonstrate the revolutionary potential of industrialized architecture.
A human and architectural adventure that has been driving them for more than 40 years... What remains today of their houses of tomorrow ?
Elodie Degavre is an architect, teacher, photographer, author and director and lives in Brussels. Passionate about her profession, which she does not hesitate to decline in various forms, she has been teaching architecture projects at ULB since 2006 and in 2018 led a research project at UCL on the theme of housing. She worked as a practicing architect for more than thirteen years, on public worksites, on behalf of several Brussels offices, including V+ and a practice. Increasingly interested in “telling” about architecture, she regularly collaborates with the magazine A+ Architecture in Belgium for exhibitions or articles. Wishing to redefine her practice as an architect by directing it towards a secular audience, she is now expanding her activities to film writing. With Life assembled (La vie en kit), she takes a further step towards the public by making a documentary. She thus reconnects with her intuitive love for writing and for the image, which she has nurtured by an assiduous practice of photography since childhood, and by participation in fiction writing workshops.
23.02.2023
8.00 pm
69 min
French, with English subtitles
English
DE SINGEL (Muziekstudio)
Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp (BE)
€ 8,00
The Flanders Architecture Institute aims to bring to light women who have left their mark on the designed environment in Belgium - from (interior) architecture and graphic design to fashion and product design. Many female designers remained under the radar of heritage institutions, researchers and collectors, and thus also outside the canon. This project aims to use Wikipedia edit-a-thons or writing sessions to record the contribution of women on Wikipedia and make up for this backlog.
