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Lecture

Between language and architecture

Traumnovelle: Seven principles for feminist architecture
2026
Thursday
23.04
20:00
De Felix
Braemkasteelstraat 33
9050 Gent

 

With the support of:

In Seven Principles for a Feminist Architecture, Léone Drapeaud returns to the practice of Traumnovelle to propose a vocabulary of feminist thinking in architecture.

Language: English

Filip Dujardin

Based on seven principles – from Idealism to Reclamation – she traces how built works, installations and speculative projects can function as acts of resistance, care and re-enchantment. How does reality, the built environment, relate to these principles? Where are the compromises and how do these experiences influence the starting points in order to arrive at new or renewed principles? How do language and architecture relate to each other and to the user’s experience?

Léone Drapeaud is an architect specialising in the integration of feminist perspectives in architecture and urban planning. She has gained international experience at various architecture and urban planning firms in Brussels, Beijing and Paris. She is co-founder of Traumnovelle, an architectural practice that critically examines the connections between space and politics and highlights architectural interventions that stimulate debate and rethink the potential of urban spaces. Since 2020, Léone Drapeaud has also been actively contributing to the integration of gender issues in spatial planning in Brussels.

Traumnovelle
Traumnovelle (2015, Brussels, BE) was founded by architects Léone Drapeaud (°1987, Canberra, AU), Manuel León Fanjul (°1990, Charleroi, BE) and Johnny Leya (°1990, Kinshasa, CD). The Brussels-based agency explores contemporary issues by interweaving fiction and non-fiction projects on paper or in stone and releasing them into the world.
In their work, Traumnovelle draws attention to socio-political themes through interventions that radically engage with their surroundings and thus spark debate. Standard materials are incorporated into buildings, installations and scenographies that highlight the potential of a place and add new layers of meaning to it. These are projects that inspire dreams of more and, based on a collective idea, shape the space for further growth.

Traumnovelle appeared on the international radar with Eurotopie, the Belgian contribution to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2022, they designed the scenography for the Horst Festival and were guests at Bozar with the exhibition Project Palace. Recently, their installation Congolisation was on display in the exhibition Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy at CIVA in Brussels (2023). In 2025, their pavilion ‘A Joyful Apocalypse’ was part of the Bruges Triennial: Spaces of Possibility.