The Care for Space for Care exhibition is an appeal for caring architecture and urbanism. But who should take care, and who should be cared for, when we shape our (built) environment? We invite you to take part in the dialogue and share your thoughts.
Do you care?
We are interested in hearing from you what care means in your daily - personal and professional- life and what role you see for design(ers) in taking care of the world around us.
We invite you to share your thoughts by writing a note or sending us a picture or a drawing. Your contribution(s) will become part of this Gallery, thus forming the digital counterpart of the Care for Space for Care exhibition. It will feed new conversations around this topic of care.
Share your thoughts by filling in the form underneath the question you wish to answer.
Who cares? Who should take care of, and who should be cared for, when we shape our (built) environment?
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Can design bring us closer together?
Many of us experience a sense of segregation and isolation in our living environment. Can design strengthen existing relationships and create connections between people? How can it show and shape the fact that we need each other? Join the conversation!
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Is maintenance a form of care?
The (built) environment depends on our care. Or does it? Is looking after a building an act of care? Should maintenance, from cleaning work to renovation efforts, be seen as acts of care? Share your thoughts!
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Can design(ers) take care of non-humans?
Our (built) environment is inhabitated by humans and non-humans. Should we consider the needs of animals, plants and other (artificial) life forms when designing buildings and landscapes? What would a post-humanist architecture look like? Contribute to the dialogue!
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Who Cares?
Is maintenance a form of care?
Can design bring us closer together?
Who cares?
Can design bring us closer together?
Is maintenance a form of care?
Is maintenance a form of care?
Can design(ers) take care of non-humans?
Can design bring us closer together?
Who cares?
Can design bring us closer together?
Who cares?
Can design bring us closer together?
Is maintenance a form of care?
Can design(ers) take care of non-humans?
Is maintenance a form of care?
Can design(ers) take care of non-humans?Conversation starter
These dialogue cards are developed by the Newrope Chair of Architecture & Urban Transformation in response to the Care for Space for Care exhibition at the Flanders Architecture Institute.
As an interdisciplinary research group that is part of the architecture department of ETH Zurich, Newrope extends the themes of the Care for Space exhibition, interdependencies, maintenance and post-humanism, by asking questions in the format of dialogue cards. The main question “Who cares?” sets a self-reflective insight of what role you see for design(ers) in taking care of the world around us. Together Newrope and VAi wonder what perspective each individual has on this particular idea of caring architecture.
A printed set of these cards are to be found in the exhibition hall. Visitors of the exhibition can leave the card in the letterbox in the exhibition hall. These contributions will be displayed in the exhibition tables as well as added to this digital Gallery, thus becoming part of the exhibition Care for Space for Care. Scenes of Flanders and Brussels.
