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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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Nog tot 02.11

China - group 1
Balancing between tradition and future
Lecture
24.10
Building Biospheres
About the impact of natural intelligence of plants on architecture
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Bureau Bas Smets

Humans are sensitive, but so are plants. 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.