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Theme 2025
Time

TIME is the fourth dimension, a dimension we cannot control, yet it is all-important. Since time immemorial, TIME has fascinated and intrigued us. Time as a cycle, time as duration, time as something divine, time as an objective measuring instrument, time as a philosophical concept, … How do we get a grip on it?

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Lecture
30.01
It’s About Time
Architecture in times of climate change

Véronique Patteeuw

Time counts! The momentum to realise change has arrived. How do urgencies translate into architecture?

Opening lecture and New Year’s reception
Lecture
20.02
Umbau
On the transmission of ideas within an architectural discourse

Job Floris (Monadnock, NL)
Hermann Czech (AU)

Knowledge, insights, skills, sensitivities are built up and passed on over the years. How do architects learn from each other and what do you pass on with your own work?
Lecture
10.03
Radically Unfinished
A constant process of reworking, testing, re-evaluation and remaking

Mio Tsuneyama & Fuminori Nousaku (JP)

How to design in an evolving process where projects are never really ‘finished’?
Misc.
13.03
MOMENT
Workshop day in search of the power of temporality.

Verloren Bekisting, Bebe Books, LEON dance, VROOMM collectief, Bodies of Knowledge, Club Dérive (TBC)

From temporarily filling space differently with choreography that invites encounters to a manifestation to the prefiguration of a new use for a square: temporality has many forms, messages and elaborations. How can the ephemeral or the temporary trigger certain dynamics?
Lecture
24.04
Three homes on the rhythm of a day
On the most intimate relationship with time during every moment of the day

Marge architecten
Studio MOTO
Tim Rogge

Living is where everything comes home. It is where the day begins and ends. What is the rhythm of life in a home during a single day?
Trip
30.04 — 04.05
Vienna & Brno
Livability and virtuosity

Against the backdrop of a rich architectural history, Vienna has been building an inclusive and liveable city for more than a hundred years. The idea that living is a basic right has placed Vienna among the top most liveable cities worldwide. Names such as Hermann Czech, Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos are inseparable from the city, which is worth exploring both socially and architecturally.
Misc.
17.05
45 years of Archipel
Nevelleven: 12 hours of architecture and party

In the combination of architecture and celebration, space and time come together pre-eminently in a ritual, in a programme, in a scenography. How do we celebrate architecture in our city?
Lecture
12.06
Drawing without erasing
Palimpsests in the oeuvre of Flores i Prats

Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats (E)

How can space be read in layers, new and old? How can something new be created without erasing the previous life of the place?
Visit
20.06 — 21.06
Two-day trip to Liege
Charles Vandenhove past...

After 45 years, Archipel returns to Liège. Which buildings remained standing during this journey through time? How do these buildings relate to our contemporary perception?
Lecture
20.09
Unlimited
Students on their own work

How does the view of students, unbounded by the realities of practice, across disciplines, lead to a refreshing look at approaches to design?
Visit
11.10
City between dream and deed
Cycling tour Antwerp

How do we view the plans, utopias, the visible layers of small and large adjustments in Antwerp’s urban fabric over the years?
Lecture
23.10
Gardening as an attitude
Two practices on urban green space in a changing climate

Wagon Landscaping (F)
Kollektif Landscape (B)

A garden is not a project, but a relationship to be maintained with care and love. How can the gardener’s attitude guide design processes in a changing climate?
Lecture
20.11
Building in the now
Architectures at risk: the contemporary aesthetics of repair architecture

What architecture arises from the need to act on the context in the now?
Lecture
11.12
Register of building biographical portraits
Archiving the first year

Laura Muyldermans
Bart Decroos

Can buildings be carriers of personal and animated stories from the past, which will be passed on to future residents?
Misc.
12.12

How far does your knowledge extend back and forward in time?