This workshop, on 15 November 2024, helps architects navigate diverse workgroups by exploring personal positioning and leveraging the "Otherness" exercise to enhance collaboration and group dynamics.
As an architect, you are supposed to be a jack-of-all-trades. You need vision. You need to be able to work with people. You are responsible for achievable planning and have to rely on facts and knowledge at all times. How do you keep all these balls in the air when you also have to consider the input of a wider group of people? The answer to this question starts from your own positioning in all these different workgroups.
Who am I in the group? What makes my approach, expectations and learning goals so unique? Otherness gives insight into the wealth of perspectives in the group from a personal reflection on one's own preferences. Thanks to the Otherness exercise, you will learn to collaborate with people who are intuitively very far away from their own way of being. The result is deeper and stronger collaboration, more fun and a strong grounding of the group.
(Illustration: Sofie De Cleene)
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.
Programme
- LECTURE LIESBETH HUYBRECHTS: Pasts, Presents and Futures of Participatory Design and Architecture in Flanders and Brussels
Timelab | 26 September 2024 | 20.00-21.30 - WORKSHOP 1: Who Participates?
Timelab | 11 October 2024 | 14.00-17.00 - WORKSHOP 2: Who Decides?
Timelab | 25 oktober 2024 | 14.00 - 17.00 - WORKSHOP 3: How to Position Yourself?
Timelab | 15 November 2024 | 14.00-17.00 - WORKSHOP 4: What After the Design?
Timelab | 06 December 2024 | 14.00-17.00
Practical
- DATE:
15.11.2024
- HOUR:
14.00-17.00
- LOCATION:
Timelab
Kogelstraat 34, 9000 Ghent - ACCESS:
Free, with registration
- LANGUAGE:
Dutch
- PRODUCTION:
Flanders Architecture Institute and Timelab
- CURATORS:
Hülya Ertas and Evi Swinnen
- ILLUSTRATION:
Sofie De Cleene
- WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
The Flemish Community
Timelab is wheelchair accesible. Please contact them in advance if you have any questions.
What We Share
In 2024-2025, the architecture programme of the Flanders Archtecture Institute is all about what we share.
How do shared spaces influence our way of life? In 2024-2025, 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.