With a lecture and a series of workshops in autumn 2024, VAi and Timelab focus on the challenges of participation in current architectural and urban planning projects in Belgium.
Participation
In many architectural and urban projects participation is a tool in the design process. It may be bottom-up with citizen organisations or a mandatory process expected by the authorities. We encounter various levels of citizen engagement and numerous challenges in these processes. Participation in architecture has been under the spotlight since the 1960s, yet the ever-changing social dynamics also altered the position of architecture and the role of architects accordingly. As a result, the discourse on participation remains relevant still in contemporary practices.
(Illustration: Sofie De Cleene)
Lecture and workshop series
Through this series of workshops and a lecture, entitled Participation for Real, VAi and Timelab aim to understand the challenges of participation in architectural and urban planning projects today in Belgium. The main motivation is to gather critical insights and good practices from architects and participation professionals (social workers, people engaged in community management) and explore possible equitable positions that one can take regarding the multi-faceted social dynamics of the 21st century. The series 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
- DATES:
26.09.2024 - 06.12.2024
- 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
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.