Lecture / congress

Participation for Real: Pasts, Presents and Futures of Participatory Design and Architecture in Flanders and Brussels

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.

26 September 2024
Timelab
Ghent
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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)

Illustratie © 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.

Participation for Real

The series of a lecture and workshops is designed to foster peer-to-peer learning among people who are intensely occupied with participatory projects, as well as to introduce a series of skill sets to younger and/or interested architects and architecture students.

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date

26.09.2024

hour

20.00-21.30

location

Timelab
Kogelstraat 34, 9000 Ghent

access

Free, with registration

language

Dutch

production

Flanders Architecture Institute and Timelab

with the support of

The Flemish Community

Timelab is wheelchair accesible. Please contact them in advance if you have any questions.

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What We Share

In 2024-2026, the architecture programme of the Flanders Archtecture Institute is all about what we share.

How do shared spaces influence our way of life? In 2024-2026, the architecture program of the Flanders Architecture Institute will focus on what we share. In our exhibitions, lectures, debates, workshops and publications we investigate the different aspects of cohabitation and living together.

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