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Martine Pollier
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T +32 50 322 420
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Theme 2026
In between



The ties between Ghent and Kanazawa (JP) will be strengthened again over the next five years. Since 1971, there has been cultural interaction between the sister cities, to which Archipel is keen to contribute in the coming period. Archipel therefore sought inspiration in Japan for the theme of this working year.

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Visit
12.09
Building in the ugliest country in the world
Cycling through Leuven: the transition of a city caught between university and industry

Leuven, one of our most important cultural centres, benefited from the university’s presence in the city centre, whilst at the same time attracting workers to the thriving industrial sector centred around its transport hub by the canal and the railway station. This continued until the great turning point. The city centre became too cramped for the growing university, and industry moved away.
Misc.
14.09 — 20.09
Summerschool 2026
Encounters between Ghent (B) and Kanazawa (JP)

The first in a series of five summer schools alternating between Japan and Belgium, celebrating the friendship ties between the sister cities Ghent and Kanazawa. In this edition we focus on encountering Ghent.
Misc.
22.09
The union is dead. Long live the G737 !
What structural problems are currently keeping the spatial design sector in Ghent up at night?

Archipel supports this initiative

A year ago, twelve designers from Ghent began a discussion about the future of their profession. On 22 September, the G737 will open its doors, and everyone from the Ghent design community is welcome.
Exhibition
23.09 — 06.10
Ecologies of Encounter + Het Vehikel in the Vitrine
Come in for a closer look!

From 23 September to 6 October, we will be exhibiting architecture in the Vitrine at the City Office. The results of the first Summer School between Ghent and Kanazawa and the entries for our ‘Het Vehikel’ design competition will all be on display there under one roof.
Misc.
29.09
The vehicle
Maalstroom | Open Call °°4

Collecting stories, experiencing architecture, discovering Ghent: Archipel and Maalstroom are heading into the city!
Trip
01.10 — 04.10
Booming Barcelona
Immerse yourself in the nueva onda of architecture in and around Barcelona

We are travelling to Barcelona to meet a new generation of architects who are revitalising the city with a focus on reuse, circularity, and community-spaces.
Misc.
06.10
Between Ghent and Kanazawa
Ghent and Kanazawa strengthen their ties with a new collaboration on architecture

Ghent and Kanazawa have been official twin cities since 1971, but their ties go back 160 years. From 2026, the partnership will be renewed for the next five years. We reflect on what we can learn from each other.
Misc.
24.10
Between me and myself
On the architecture of intimacy

In psychoanalysis there is the assumption of a gap between me and myself: the space of unconscious wishes and desires. We engage in conversation with different voices, in search of this inbetween space, through psychoanalysis and architecture.
Lecture
29.10
Territorial transition
Matthias Armengaud (F) and Aglaée Degros on transitional design at the landscape scale

The world is in transition: weather records such as the largest forest fires, droughts or floods are being broken year after year. There is less and less free space. Can transdisciplinary design help us tackle these ecological, social and spatial challenges?

Language: English
Lecture
20.11
Building: between land and materials
Material Cultures (UK) on a new culture in building

The young British design office Material Cultures wants to establish a new relationship with the building materials we use to create architecture, as they write in their manifesto Material Reform.

Language: English
Exhibition
10.12
In between: learning from the Japanese concept of ‘MA’
In search of a poetic experience of space

Students from the Learning from Japan studio at KU Leuven, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, are investigating the impact of traditional Japanese concepts of space. How can they be read and interpreted? What can we learn from Japan?