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Theme 2024
Detours

A path often appears unplanned, where it is needed or simply convenient. The ‘elephant path’, for example, cuts a corner, reappears again and again in the neat flowerbeds of the planned city. The secret route to that intimate waterfront vantage point, the short-cut to the bus stop via the back of the supermarket: often informal paths take us to unexpected, interesting places.

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Lecture
26.09
Inclusive city
On thresholds for and doors to welcoming in-between spaces in the metropolis

&bogdan & BC architects
Globe Aroma

In September, we focus on inclusion, hospitality and diversity in the city. We look at a plan for a centre for drug users and an artistic workplace for artists from the margins. Not because spaces for drug users or artists with a migration story are comparable one-to-one, but because there is an ambition from both projects to create a safe environment that can offer perspective to people in precarious situations and, from that environment, have an impact on the hospitality of the city as a whole.
Misc.
06.10
Who will win the second Ghent architecture prize?
Ghent Architecture Prize ceremony

The City of Ghent will award an architecture prize for the second time on 6 October 2024. The prize awards recently realised projects on Ghent territory that testify to design strength and innovation and are a lasting enrichment for the city.
Exhibition
06.10 — 20.10
Exclusief Inclusief - Design event
Exhibition: Designs for Ghent

In 2024, the year of Ghent European Youth Capital, more than 30 studios collaborated on a participatory narrative for Ghent to integrate young people as key actors for life in the city of the future. Their work will be exhibited.
Misc.
10.10
China Day
Balancing between tradition and future

A fascinating study day in preparation for the China trip, but also for the China-interested. Gradually, we find out more and more about the mysteries of this fascinating country.
Lecture
10.10
Herzog & de Meuron in China
Open dialogue with a different culture

As part of the impending China trip, we invite Wim Walschap to lecture on Herzog & de Meuron’s work in China and how they integrate their vision within Asian culture.
Trip
18.10 — 02.11
China - group 1
Balancing between tradition and future

In the autumn of 2024, we will visit the Heavenly Realms. Be amazed by the unparalleled splendour hidden behind every corner, and experience an unforgettable adventure in a land driven by boundless stories and impressive architecture!
Lecture
24.10
Building Biospheres
About the impact of natural intelligence of plants on architecture

Bureau Bas Smets

Humans are sensitive, but so are plants. To learn more (and feel more), we will travel to Kortrijk in October. Humans have five senses, so does a plant, as well as at least 15 others. Plants warn each other with scents about hostile herbivores, form huge networks with their roots and communicate with birds, insects and each other about their environment. Not for nothing do leading scientists now put plants on the same evolutionary step as animals.
Trip
25.10 — 09.11
China - group 2
Balancing between tradition and future

In the autumn of 2024, we will visit the Heavenly Realms. Be amazed by the unparalleled splendour hidden behind every corner, and experience an unforgettable adventure in a land driven by boundless stories and impressive architecture!
Lecture
07.11
Rethinking housing
A plea for ‘new standards'

The lecture, which could not take place on 16.11.2023 due to urgent personal circumstances, will be scheduled in autumn 2024.

Duplex Architekten shows how innovative housing can function in Switzerland and what contribution it can make to urban development. We place this lecture in a broader study of new financing models for the housing market and alternative forms of housing within which housing can remain affordable.
Lecture
14.11
Living materials
In Vivo or how to ensure a living building?

Bento architecture
Elise Vanden Elsacker

Fungi play an important role in the networks between plants. In November, we zoom in on the potential of these materials in construction. A scientific and a design perspective show the mesmerising, radical implications of mycelium materials on how we can look at building processes in the future. Building maintenance, for example, suddenly takes on a different meaning and becomes rather caring, keeping alive. What are the possibilities of these new living materials? In what ways does it challenge our building logic and subsequently our behaviour?
Lecture
12.12
Lee
On (the right to) be in the public space

Geert Peymen en Pleuntje Jellema (NL)
New South (FR/B)

As the final lecture of working year 2024, we look at the hospitality of public space. We pay attention to the individual experience of space and the need for stillness of its users. This evening, we show practices that incorporate this into the design process, making radically different choices and challenging the architectural discourse.
Misc.
13.12
Archipel Architecture Quiz 2024
Questions from the rich architectural archive

Get your knowledge from under the dust, crack open those books again and prepare!
Here comes the fourth Archipel Architecture Quiz.
We continue the tradition.