Research Day Flanders Architecture Institute
Each year, the Flanders Architecture Institute organises a research day to facilitate exchange between our activities and the wider research community. The event explores topical research questions which also concern the ongoing projects of the Flanders Architecture Institute’s Knowledge Centre and Collection. We reflect on questions which are relevant to researchers as well as the heritage sector.
Hors Catégorie
This year’s edition explores how archival classifications shape – but also limit – our understanding of design heritage. How do we categorise objects, disciplines, and forms of authorship and what blind spots are produced through these systems? How can we consider practices that elude, transcend, or contest conventional institutional and historical classification? What to do with practices hors catégorie?
Programme
The programme of the research day consists of a keynote performance, three thematic sessions with national and international guests, and a keynote lecture by Anna-Maria Meister (director of the Kunsthistorisch Institut in Florenz)
- 09.30 – 10.00 Welcome by Dennis Pohl (director of the VAi) and introduction by Janno Martens (researcher at the Knowledge Centre)
- 10.00 – 10.30 Keynote performance by Pia Jacques
- 10.30 – 12.15 Session 1: Sourcing the archive
- Elodie Degavre (UCLouvain)
“Just ignore the camera”. Revealing processes: the challenging yet rich terrain of family and television archives - Javier Fernández Contreras (HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design)
Screens Within Screens: The Architecture of Social Media - Eline Inghelbreght (KU Leuven)
Counter-Imaginaries of the City: Activist Magazines and Alternative Visual Narratives in Brussels’ Urban Planning (1970s-80s) - Rixt Woudstra (University of Amsterdam)
What source for what history? The Rietveld-Schröder House from his-story to her-story and the debate on legitimate sources.
- Elodie Degavre (UCLouvain)
- 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
- 13.30 – 15.00 Session 2: Classifying the archive
- Tiphaine Abenia (Université Libre Bruxelles)
Toward a De-standardized Material Archive: The Sitterwerk Case - Carole Kojo (CIVA, Brussels)
Thinking, classifying. Finding? Library classifications in the 21st century - Stefanie Korrel en Ernst Des Bouvrie (het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam)
Asterisk*: enriching archives and collections
- Tiphaine Abenia (Université Libre Bruxelles)
- 15.00 – 15.15 Break
- 15.15 – 16.45 Session 3: Performing the archive
- Sina Brückner-Amin, Mechteld Ebert and Manuela Ganter (KIT Karlsruhe)
From object to process – and back again: model building as a cycle of architectural insight in the work of Conrad Roland - Laura Lievevrouw (KU Leuven) and Breg Horemans (KU Leuven / TAAT collective)
On the lost and living gestures of the architect: two perspectives into archiving - Gjiltinë Usufi (KU Leuven)
Unarchived Therefore Unwritten: Disclosing Microhistories in the Prison of Gjilan, Kosovo
- Sina Brückner-Amin, Mechteld Ebert and Manuela Ganter (KIT Karlsruhe)
- 16.45 – 17.00 Break
- 17.00 – 18.00 Keynote lecture by Anna-Maria Meister (KIH Florence)
- 18.00 – 19.00 Drinks
Registration
Registration for the Research Day will open soon.