Moment

Club Dérive

On 13 March, the second student workshop-day organised by Archipel will take place. This year, we focus on the temporary: what does it mean when something is only visible, usable, tangible for a very short period of time? By radically reducing duration, time becomes one of the most important parameters in the design process. We invite students to explore this dimension during an intensive workshop guided by a specific practice whose work has a special relationship with the temporary or ephemeral in architecture. In the evening, we open the doors for an on-site instant-expo at the former N.A.M. garage on the Leiekaai in Ghent, now in temporary use by the design studios of KU Leuven-Sint Lucas.

Workshops will by:

Verloren Bekisting
Verloren Bekisting is a collective, not an architecture office. Verloren Bekisting is a collaborative way of working. An exchange between makers. Verloren Bekisting is a research on the continuously changing meaning of materials. Verloren Bekisting is experimenting through the making of functional and dysfunctional objects, furniture, scenography, and architecture.

Verloren Bekisting


Verloren Bekisting

Bebe Books
Bebe Books is an ongoing collective experiment that operates through shared agency in creative labor, care, and friendship in the field of communication design and publishing. By working together, we resist the modern myth of a singular heroic designer – what Ursula K. Le Guin referred to as “the narrative of the arrow or spear.”

We consider ourselves a queer collective, not merely as a statement of identity but as a methodology. While the majority of our members are gender-non-conforming, we use our creative capacity and resources to design contexts – be it a book, a gay bar, a temple, or a political campaign – where diverse marginalized experiences and voices can be represented.

Bebe Books


Bebe Books

VROOMM.collectif
VROOMM.collectif is an experimental practice that (re)mixes architecture, art and design. Three designers from Brussels seek a playful way to escape the inertia of architecture. We are maker-builders, creating space for intuitive speed. Each intervention tries to (temporarily) transform the environment with minimal interventions. These small changes intrigue and are further explored.

Cato Crevits


Vroomm Collectif

Valentijn Goethals (019 and Kunsthal Gent)
Valentijn Goethals is part of artist collective 019 and co-founder of Kunsthal Gent. Although trained as a graphic designer and artist, Valentijn is mainly active as an exhibition maker and coordinator within both organisations. He is interested in in-between spaces for intuitive experimentation, collaboration and encounters between architecture, graphic design and visual art, and likes to break the usual ways of exhibiting in artistic and non-artistic spaces. Before founding Kunsthal Gent, Valentijn worked mainly as a musician within various projects.

Valentijn Goethals


Valentijn Goethals

Club Dérive
Club Dérive is committed to radical and experimental (club) design research, focusing on the interaction between the environment and the (club) participant. The output of this research mainly translates into three pillars: experimental club scenography, participatory workshops with a focus on co-ownership of the project, and the development of new venues in which all this can take place.
The research builds on pre-existing situationist theories of Guy Debord, Constant Nieuwenhuys and others. Situationists are experts in atmospheres, environments and spaces, developing the ‘science’ of psychogeography.

Club Dérive


Club Dérive

Leon
Leon is a participatory and nomadic dance organisation that uses dance as a means to facilitate encounters between people, often in public spaces. Detached from existing role patterns, Leon invites you to show yourself through dance and movement. Atelier Leon is an open dance studio where everyone is welcome: children, young people and adults. Dance experience is not necessary – just join in.