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Emily Wickham – Assemble

(Image: Claystation is a station kiosk clad in over one thousand bespoke clay tiles. It was designed and built in collaboration with the artist Mathew Raw and commissioned by Art on the Underground. © GG Archard)
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5 March 2024
20:00h
DE SINGEL, Antwerp
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On 5 March Emily Wickham of the London-based collective Assemble opens Atelier As Found, an exhibition of student works from Flanders and Brussels focusing on adaptive reuse. Wickham will share projects of Assemble and ideas behind them, with regards to dealing with the existing.

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Assemble

Based in the UK, Assemble is a multi-disciplinary collective working acrossarchitecture, design and art. They work with multiple scales ranging from furniture tourban design, yet always with an attention to the existing context. Assemble is knownfor its participatory processes, opening up the design question towards a rich range ofactors, such as users, inhabitants and communities. Moreover, they integrate the notion of time, craftsmanship and social realm in their practice in novel and precise ways.

Tentoonstelling Atelier Gevonden architectuur - Vlaams Architectuurinstituut in De Singel Antwerpen © Dieter Daniëls

Emily Wickham

Emily Wickham is a designer at Assemble and is a tutor at Nottingham University. Her work reflects her interest in civic projects, materials and making. She is currently designing a public park in Bermondsey and embarking on the design of a Maggie’s Centre in Kent. She is a keen footballer and member of the grassroots female footballing community.

Audio recording double lecture

Listen to the audio recording of the lecture.(language: English) During the recording, watch ambience images of the evening programme.

(Image: Cohousing Drongen by Annelien Nevens, Christoph Zacharaski and Louis Carlier © University of Ghent)

Atelier As Found

From 6 to 17 March the Flanders Architecture Insitute presents the student works from five different architecture schools with their interpretations of the “as found”.

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Practical

  • DATE:

    05.03.2024

  • HOUR:

    20:00h

  • LOCATION:

    DE SINGEL (Blue Hall)
    Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp (BE)

  • ADMISSION:

    Free, registration mandatory.

  • LANGUAGE:

    English

  • PRODUCTION:

    Flanders Architecture Institute in collaboration with DE SINGEL and UHasselt

  • WITH SUPPORT OF:

    the Flemish Community

There are spaces reserved for wheelchair users in all halls of DE SINGEL. Please contact us in advance at tickets@desingel.be so that we can reserve a space for you. You can use an elevator to reach the halls. Enter through the main entrance of DE SINGEL and make your way down the ramp to the left of the stairs to take the lift. Read more about the accessibility

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