26 September 2024

Timelab

Ghent

On 26 September, Liesbeth Huybrechts gives a lecture on the past and present of participatory trajectories in Flanders and Brussels over the past 60 years. She will discuss the evolution of participatory design, as well as its various future roles in changing architectural and planning procedures.

Participation Through Time

Since the 1960s the word participation has been widely used among alternative architecture circles. Its forms and formats are pluriverse. They are shaped by multiple knowledge and practice cultures, which also led to various changes in policy on decision-making processes in city administrations and regional authorities. This lecture by Liesbeth Huybrechts will focus on the pluriverse views and narratives on pasts and presents of participatory trajectories in Flanders and Brussels in the last 60 years. It will unfold its evolution in time and explore the diverse future roles it can play in altering architectural and planning procedures.

(Illustration: Sofie De Cleene)

Liesbeth Huybrechts

Huybrechts is Associate Professor and works in the areas of participatory design, design anthropology and spatial transformation processes in the research group Arck, University of Hasselt, Belgium. She has developed a research interest in the design for/with participatory exchanges and processes of capacity building between human and the material/natural environment and the “politics” of designing these relations.