Missing the in-between by Tina Schnyder

In ‘Missing the in-between’ Tina Schnyder explores the spatial potential of the above (roofs-capes) and the in-between as a central architectural measure. The work aims to consider these threshold spaces and make them accessible so that the importance of these lost spaces offers the residents more quality of life and even a third space. What […]

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Documentary of spaces: come with me to Scandinavia by Marlene

‘documentary of spaces: come with me to Scandinavia’ „[…] a documentary may be understood as a series of visually and/or audibly expressed statements connected by a narrative, and communicated from the author/authors to the viewer with the intention it be received as fact.“ A common phenomenon of architects when they design is to look at […]

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Concrete operations by Jonathan Burkhard

In “Concrete operations”, unlocking potentials through in-situ transformations of young-heritage high rise structures, Jonathan Burkhard explores the spatial potential of a 1960’s high-rise building in Gent, starting from and concentrating on the structure. Final book > a3_liporello_jonathanburkard_final review.pdf

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HERSUS Prize on Modern Built Heritage: awards and finalists from our faculty

The First Prize of the HERSUS Prize on Modern Built Heritage 2023 in the category ‘Practice’ was awarded to ‘Nursery BVM Irlandesas‘ and ‘Loulé Music Conservatory‘ (ex aequo). The project BEEV – the rehabilitation of a high modernist house by Koen Pauwels, Wim Van der Vurst and Hannah Corbett received a special mention. The project […]

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The fellows of the Incipient Raum visit ‘Waiting Rooms of Architecture’

What precedes architecture? Architect and artist Malgorzata Maria Olchowskaexplores how personal and collective memories influence our view of the built environment. At the invitation of the Flanders Architecture Institute, she engages in dialogue with the collection of the Red Star Line Museum. Guided tour by the artist at the Red Star Line Museum (Antwerpen)

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Mending Wall wins the HERSUS Prize on UNESCO Modern Heritage

Ekin Başkentli’s master thesis project ‘Mending Wall‘ has been awarded by the jury of the HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage, UNESCO. Ekin completed her thesis in the Master of Architecture under the supervision of Tomas Ooms. The HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage is an initiative within the Erasmus+ project Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability […]

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To Meet Galileo on Day Fourteen, An Ecclectic Architectural Documentary: The Case of Gjilan County Prison by Gjiltinë Isufi, Laureate 2022

To Meet Galileo on Day Fourteen is, initially, a response and an indignation to a widespread indifference towards buildings that are considered ‘architecturally insignificant’. It is often, that these buildings are the ones to hold the most valuable traces of the collective memory. The abandoned prison of Gjilan—the case study of this exploration—is the anchor […]

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The fellows of the Incipient Raum visit ‘Waiting Rooms of Architecture’

What precedes architecture? Architect and artist Malgorzata Maria Olchowskaexplores how personal and collective memories influence our view of the built environment. At the invitation of the Flanders Architecture Institute, she engages in dialogue with the collection of the Red Star Line Museum. Guided tour by the artist at the Red Star Line Museum (Antwerpen)

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Mending Wall wins the HERSUS Prize on UNESCO Modern Heritage

Ekin Başkentli’s master thesis project ‘Mending Wall‘ has been awarded by the jury of the HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage, UNESCO. Ekin completed her thesis in the Master of Architecture under the supervision of Tomas Ooms. The HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage is an initiative within the Erasmus+ project Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability […]

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Ekin Başkentli’s ‘Mending Wall’ awarded with the HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage, UNESCO

Alumna Ekin Başkentli’s master thesis project ‘Mending Wall‘ has been awarded by the jury of the HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage, UNESCO. Ekin completed her thesis in the Master of Architecture under the supervision of Tomas Ooms. The HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage is an initiative within the Erasmus+ project Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and […]

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Luna Coesens ‘Scattering Space’

The course “Hybrids” was a spacial exploration of the visuals of the film “Vertigo” by Alfred Hitchcock. I followed my interest in the art of movie sets, the special qualities and ambience. I took inspiration from the matte paintings that were used as background behind fake walls to give the impression of depth. The element […]

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Liese-Lore Avermaete and Ekin Başkentli are winners of the Van Hove Prize 2022

On November 23, 2022, the Professional Union of Architects distributed the prizes to the winners of the successful Van Hove Prize. This prize rewards ambitious graduation projects by students from Belgian architecture programmes. Exceptionally four winners were chosen during the proclamation in the Architect’s House. Two of them are students from the Faculty of Architecture: […]

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MULTI boeklanceringen: 24/11 in Antwerpen en 29/11 in Brussel

Welkom op de twee lanceringen van het boek ‘.working with. MULTI. Open debate, public interior and circularity. A graphical documentary’. (zie ook Circubuild award voor Tomas Ooms en het MULTI-project, de reconversie van de Brusselse Brouckèretoren tot een gebouw met een gemengd programma met publieke meerwaarde) Op donderdag 24 november 2022 wordt het boek ‘.working […]

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To Meet Galileo on Day Fourteen, An Ecclectic Architectural Documentary: The Case of Gjilan County Prison by Gjiltinë Isufi, Laureate 2022

To Meet Galileo on Day Fourteen is, initially, a response and an indignation to a widespread indifference towards buildings that are considered ‘architecturally insignificant’. It is often, that these buildings are the ones to hold the most valuable traces of the collective memory. The abandoned prison of Gjilan—the case study of this exploration—is the anchor […]

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MOSS by Fall/Winter 2021-2022 studio

MOSS collective = Luay Al Ganim, Jascha Lenz, Kilian Paterson, Klara Schmidt, Hassaan Tariq, Mumtaaz Viaene and Abdul Wehbe.   THE PICKNICK program of the Faculty of Architecture without Qualities is a presentation of investigations, speculations, samples and imaginations highlighting selected supercultures and proto-issues. Investigations are made within each of the Engagements: Data Gravity, Mediating […]

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Going Public lecture by Fuminori Nousaku 5/05

Tomas Ooms, Johannes Berry and Steven Schenk present a lecture in the Craftsmanship engagement by FUMINORI NOUSAKU: ‘Wild Ecology’ Thursday 5 May 2022, 5.30PM Online on Zoom, please register via https://bit.ly/fuminorinousaku After the industrial revolution our lives have become dependent on industrial products, and the raw materials and processing processes of these materials are black […]

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Book launch: Lucas-Architecture book #4 + lectures by Lennart Vandewaetere & Marius Vaneeckhoutte 24/02

The Faculty of Architecture and GOING PUBLIC present: Online book launch of Lucas-Architecture book #4 + lecture Wissel architectuur studio (engagement: Craftsmanship, curated by Tomas Ooms) 24 February 2022, 5.30 pm Online via Zoom: please register via https://bit.ly/eugeentanja Event in English During this event the winners of our 2020-21 ‘Eugeen-Tanja’ contest* will be announced and […]

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Going Public lectures February-May 2022

The Faculty of Architecture is happy to present this semester’s Going Public programme, kicking off with the (live) Going Public lecture by Floris Alkemade on17/02 in Ghent! Don’t hesitate to join us and invite others. We will try to organize our events live as much as possible and we hope to meet you soon! More […]

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MARTA WISNIEWSKA – GROWING MONUMENT [sample of students’ work]

LINK to FULL BOOK “This is not a prison farm and this is not a true story. The event I am about to describe has no existence, so are the people involved. […] These are thirteen people living and working together under the same roof. Their thoughts are hidden from me, so does the past […]

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MAEL DUCLOVEL – BUILDING WITH CONFLICTS [sample of students’ work]

LINK TO FULL BOOK A. CONTEXT : Looking at a small amount of ground left by the moles doing subterranean galleries. B. SITUATION : A praise to the moles Moles are fighters, everlasting fighters with a disruptive sense of the limits ! Indeed by their galleries they always reorganise pushing back the ground both horizontally […]

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MONIKA DAUKSAITE – GARDENS FOR EVERYDAY RITUALS [sample from students’ work]

LINK TO FULL BOOK “From the first glimpse they noticed the grid. […] This grid is unavoidable, it is everywhere. It can be seen as infinite without any focus point where eyes get lost. No enclosures, no divisions – everything is exposed, transparent, allowing to glimpse inside and then walk away. […] People are curious […]

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LARS HEMMERYCKX AND LUCA DE VOZ – THIS IS NOT A RETIREMENT HOME. VACANT FRONT GARDENS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF A MULTIGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY [sample from students’ work]

  LINK TO FULL BOOK “2087  – As you are reading this you might be thinking I am just some nostalgic old fart but it’s hard for me not to feel a rush of satisfaction when looking back at all those front gardens I helped create. It was however not all sunshine and roses,conflicts often […]

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GOING OUTSIDE Picknick Series #1: MOSS 11/01

  Master studio ARCHITECTS WITHOUT QUALITIES exhibiting: MOSS: Mediation On Salt Servers Faculty of Architecture Without Qualities Engagement: Mediating Servers + The FLAP Way Curated by James Hamilton & Parker Chandler 11 January 2022 — 12:00-22:00 — Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels THE PICKNICK program of the Faculty of Architecture without Qualities is a presentation of investigations, […]

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Residency Periplus Workshops Greece 2022

Periplus Workshops 2022 Short-term residency for designers, artists, creatives & performing artists, working across all cultural fields. Periplus Workshops offers selected creative and cultural students, graduates and professionals from all over the world, the time and space to delve into a constantly open lab, where thinking through making, experiential access to local identity and a […]

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Going Public lecture by Theo De Meyer 18/11

Going Public lecture #35: Tomas Ooms (curator Craftsmanship) and Karel Deckers (programme director of Interior Architecture) present an online lecture by Theo De Meyer on Thursday 18 November. Please register on https://bit.ly/theodemeyer in order to receive the Zoom link. Architect Theo De Meyer lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. De Meyer moves between architecture, design […]

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Going Public lectures fall 2021

Save the dates! Going Public #35 18/11, 17.30: Theo De Meyer (engagement Craftsmanship, curated by Tomas Ooms and the master of Interior Architecture) https://bit.ly/theodemeyer More info Going Public #36 25/11, 18.00: Tom de Paor (engagement Legacy, curated by Jo Van Den Berghe) https://bit.ly/tomdepaor More info Going Public #37 2/12, 17.30: Leilani Farha (engagement Urban Cultures, […]

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Going Public lecture by Jaume Mayol (TEd’A arquitectes) 14/10

Tomas Ooms will introduce our next ‘Craftsmanship’ online lecture: Going Public Lecture series nr. 34 Thursday 14 October, 5.30 pm- 7.00 pm CET Everyone is welcome to join! Please register here. Jaume Mayol (TEd’A arquitectes) TO REPEAT IS NEVER TO REPEAT Irene Pérez (Barcelona, 1976) and Jaume Mayol (Mallorca, 1976) graduated from the ETSA Vallés. They […]

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The laureates of 2021

Congratulations to all the graduates! It was good to see each other again during September’s proclamations. You can find more pictures on our Flickr account. Find the listings of all the graduates here. The laureates of 2021 are: Master in de interieurarchitectuur (Gent) Watthy Chelsey (Karel Deckers, Lien Van der Jeught) Dean’s choice Master in […]

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On the studio 20-21

Studio Care Architecture Farewell to the bed houses Tutors: Gideon Boie and Layla Lavens Academic Year 2020-2021, Semester 1, campus Ghent Engagement: Mediating tactics Innovation in care architecture today is hampered by the typology of the bed house. The typology stems from hospital complexes and is a literal translation of the number of beds available, […]

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On the studio 20-21

Master Thesis studio, 2020/2021, Brussels Promotor: Johan Nielsen So Close Far Away The studio aims to explore a conceptual gap between our objectives as designers and the reality of the practice. Indeed, it is time to consider a major paradox contemporary architectural practices are facing. On the one hand, discourses in architectural discipline are pushing […]

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Project work and plans of the Téchne network

KU Leuven has been part of the Téchne network since the summer of 2020. This World Health Organization network of architects, engineers, designers and public health practitioners from several institutions globally, responds and prepares to acute public health events with urgent and customized support. It has played a key role in the current epidemic and has […]

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Engagements

For 2023 the engagement themes are: CRAFTSMANSHIP MEDIATING TACTICS URBAN CULTURES   CRAFTSMANSHIP Tomas Ooms Curator Craftsmanship Engagement March 2021 Keywords Detail, Structure, Materiality, Drawing, Fabrication, 1:1, Tactility, Context, Process, Phenomenology, Facture, Personality. Architecture resides in the act of making From this mindset, the Craftsmanship engagement brings together a number of design studios, research projects […]

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Publications

Each year one publication will be produced with all the Engagements highlighting specific topics within the year themes. The publications will be distributed via tutors and staff but also as supplement to an architectural magazine to reach an international broad audience. The publications will involve studio work and research and represent a large part of […]

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Going Public lecture by Jan Boelen 12/05

Introduction leaflet as pdf. Engagement: Craftsmanship Curated by Tomas Ooms JAN BOELEN Tools for debate The lecture will show exhibitions, artworks and materials as tools to connect different stakeholders. The different formats or prototypes serve as Trojan horses to instigate change, design relations and build future projects differently. Wednesday 12/05/2021, 18:00 – 19:30 Please register […]

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Design in Unreal Times

As part of the Faculty of Architecture’s Going Public program one publication will be produced each year, with all the Engagements highlighting specific topics within the year themes. The publications will be distributed via tutors and staff but also as supplement to an architectural magazine to reach an international broad audience. The publications will involve […]

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Publication launch: Design in Unreal Times 19/04

The outcomes of locked-down thinkers and makers are crystalized in this publication and discussed amongst them. Please join us for the publication launch with –amongst many others– Rachel Armstrong, Wim Goossens and Dag Boutsen. Monday 19/04/2021, 18:00 Please register via http://bit.ly/designinunrealtimes Design in Unreal Times is created by the Faculty of Architecture of the KU […]

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Going Public lecture by Lennert Loos 18/03

Laurens Luyten will introduce our next guest for the Going Public lecture #25, part of the Craftsmanship engagement, curated by Tomas Ooms. Lennert Loos WHO WILL DO THE JOB? Computational design is now firmly embedded in architectural design practices. Assuming that computers can handle complexity better than we can: when will the moment come when […]

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Going Public lecture by Álbio Nascimento & Kathi Stertzig – The Home Project 04/03

Introduction leaflet (pdf) Thierry Lagrange will introduce our next guests for the ‘Going Public’ lecture #23, part of the Craftsmanship engagement, curated by Tomas Ooms. ÁLBIO NASCIMENTO & KATHI STERTZIG – THE HOME PROJECT Why invent what’s already been invented? About design in context or how to engage with situated craft practices. Everyone is welcome […]

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Symposium / Reusing Churches. New Perspectives in a European Comparison

During the ‘Herrenhausen Symposium digital: Reusing Churches. New Perspectives in a European Comparison‘ experts from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Great Britain will discuss the topic of church reuse for the first time in a European comparison and develop new perspectives from it. At the center of the symposium are seven sections that discuss […]

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Virtual Cartopology: an International Workshop Drawing the Everyday Life of Virtual Work Spaces Drawing

Initiated by: – Institute of Cartopology, Department Teaching – Marlies Vermeulen marlies.vermeulen@dearhunter.eu – FH Erfurt, Faculty of Architecture – Carolin Stapenhorst carolin.stapenhorst@fh-erfurt.de – KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture – Marlies Vermeulen marlies.vermeulen@kuleuven.be Introduction – the context of the assignment: Because of Covid-19 and its necessary lockdowns the world never ‘took place’ more on- line than […]

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Isabelle De Pauw ‘A New History’

It started with an interest for the neoclassicist and classicist architecture, as seen in different film references such as the scene including the Palace of Justice in Brussels in ‘Dossier B’, and later ‘The belly of an architect’. The classicist architecture is portrayed in a photographical way, which makes it grandeur to be noticed. The […]

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Manon Persoone ‘The Deployment of Industrial Actors’

As an intuitive start in the process and research I focused on the architectural sliding element, as ‘the door’, ‘gate’, ‘train’ or ‘cart’ following his track, becoming the guiding protagonist in the narrative. Without knowing what it is, you feel that this dividing element discovers his environment by travelling through inside/outside spaces, through rooms and […]

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Eva Louf ‘The Other Room’

It’s always more interesting to try to see the things you shouldn’t see. Guided by my constant curiousness, this project began with imagining what was going on in the other spaces of my one-minute film. A quote from the book ‘Waagstukken’ by Charlotte Van den Broeck perfectly describes this need to know more. “When I […]

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Online lecture by H Arquitectes – Roger Tudó 16/12

Welcome! GOING PUBLIC Lecture Series #21 Engagement: Craftsmanship Curated by Tomas Ooms HARQUITECTES – Roger Tudó ‘The Invisible’ Introduced by BRAM AERTS Wednesday 16/12/2020, 17:30 – 19:00 online. Please register on https://bit.ly/rogertudo Introduction leaflet FB event We are convinced that interactions with natural phenomena, in addition to optimizing resources, deeply link architecture to its surroundings. […]

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Online lecture by Mechthild Stuhlmacher 18/11

The Faculty of Architecture invites you to attend the GOING PUBLIC (online) lecture #17, part of the Craftsmanship engagement curated by Tomas Ooms: MECHTHILD STUHLMACHER At home at school About projects for schools and other public living rooms Introduction by Karen Kesteloot Wednesday 18/11/2020, 17h30 – 19.00 on Zoom. Everyone is welcome to join! We […]

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Asli Eylem Kolbas’s Master Dissertation selected for Mamut Art Project exhibition, Istanbul

Asli Eylem Kolbas’s Master Dissertation (‘Macbeth (f) Exploring the Possibilities of Polykatoikia as (Gradient) Public Interior, Master of Architecture 2019) was selected for the Mamut Art Project exhibition in Istanbul. Watch Asli’s presentation here. Aslı Eylem Kolbaş transposes the modernist architecture movement in the first half of the 20th century with Shakespeare’s Macbeth in her series of […]

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Online lecture by Camiel Van Noten 21/10

We invite you to join our GOING PUBLIC (online) lecture #15, part of the Craftsmanship engagement curated by Tomas Ooms, introduced by Eireen Schreurs (Studio Structural Contingencies) CAMIEL VAN NOTEN SOLANELLAS VAN NOTEN MEISTER ARCHITEKTEN TEACHING – DESIGNING AND VICE VERSA The work of Solanellas Van Noten Meister goes beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture […]

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Eva Jorissen

A LANDMARK WITHIN URBAN ROOMS Four collective spaces, based on the concept of ‘urban rooms’, are providing the site of a human-scale and a gradual transition from the city. This idea is based on the project Highnote of Studininedots, an architecture studio based in Amsterdam. 1 The urban rooms are forming a multifunctional urban structure […]

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Studio work 2019-2020

Studio Riet Eeckhout – Drawing Architecture Arno De Braeckeleer Céline Wyffels Jonathan Urpiala Margot Schurmans Monique Pousson Alexander Kyuchukov Benediktas Kuoras Farah Abdallah Isabelle De Pauw Stephan Xu Etrit Besimi Seyed Danial Sanagostar Eva Louf   Studio maib14 Karachi – Asiya Sadicq Marianna Jarina, Lisa Eisen, Ava Dehghani Ragesh, Frey, Charlotte, Lynn Jia He, Mahishini […]

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Studio work 2018-2019

Studio maib24 Hannes Van Damme Roeselaere: Brugsesteenweg Ade Ülaide Catalin Pop Chloé Van Aster Ignacio Herrero Solano Maksym Isotov Mojdeh Masoumi Simon Strba Roeselaere: Oosstraat Arbër Musliu Inés Sánchez Ibargüen del Río Viktorija Trajcheska Studio maig42 Gitte Schreurs Aleksandra Bem Chiara Dewolf Contanza Botti Marion Milinkovitch Matthew Jones Paulina Castellanos Quinten Van Severen Rafeh Abbasi […]

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Studio work 2017-2018

2017-18 maib34 Cambodia 2017-18 maib34 Cambodia Studio maib24 Jonathan Robert Maj Amir Abdi Dalia Puodziute Daria Rath Hiu Yu Ong Julius Seniunas Katarina Ambrosova Nerea Garcia Pablo Leiva Safiya Tabali Tsz Ho Chau Studio maig24 Laurens Bekemans, Catherine Mengé Studio Booklet: Future rural villages, Ouled Merzoug, Morocco Studio maib42 Martino Tattara Vittorio Degli Innocenti Mario […]

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Studio work 2016-2017

2016-17 maib34 Karachi – 2016-17 maib34 Karachi Studio Martine De Maeseneer Tristan Goderis Clifford Boakye Cash Nhat Linh Nguyen Work-Siyu Wang Kristina Savova Yang Yang Peng Qiaolin Wang Ivan Shkurko Dimitrios Triantafyllou Studio maig24 Martine De Maeseneer Laura Druktenyte and Natalija Stojic Team: Tomas, Ignacio, Aitor, Ismael Ismael Del Arroyo Vela, Aitor Stefania Les, Tomas […]

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Afgestudeerden 2020 in architectuur Gent

Academiejaar 2019-2020

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Afgestudeerden 2020 in architectuur, Brussel

Academiejaar 2019-2020

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Masterdissertation projects 2019-2020

LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Ghent Vincent Leonard MATZMORR: Unlocking Civic Potential in Ostend: The Europacentrum Case LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Brussels Iulia ILIE: Architectures of Transition   Studio maig42  – Tomas Ooms: Incipient Raum Marta Gruca: About Blank Marine Mamikonian: Architectural Documentary Inhabiting Liminal Spaces: Bartek Grzesznik Alberto Bovo: Liberated Spaces Ying Zhao: […]

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Masterdissertation projects 2018-19 per studio

LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Ghent –  Linde Van Bleyenbergh LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Brussels – Simon Desimpelaere   Studio maig42 Tomas Ooms Alessandro Cugola Anna Dasko Asli Kolbas Bojana Rankovic Charlotte Deketelaere Dalia Puodziute Linde Van Bleyenbergh Louis Vierin Matthijs Van Daele Natasha Kurmashova René de Rijk   Studio maig42 Martine De Maeseneer […]

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Masterdissertation projects 2017-18 per studio

LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Ghent – Juan Thibaut de Maisières LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Brussels – Sophia Holst Studio maib42 Martino Tattara Vittorio Degli Innocenti Mario Ghetti Seppe Claes Ewout De Bleser Hristina Stojchevska Onur Can Zorlutuna Annik Keoseyan   Studio maig42 Martino Tattara Zuzana Kovalova Ursula Mendo Pauline Auerochs Marek Vilášek Liudmila […]

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Masterdissertation projects 2016-17 per studio

LAUREATE 16-17 Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent: Francesco Ogliengo LAUREATE 16-17 Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels: Aaron Swartjes   Studio Marc Dujardin: Diversity, Vacancy & Demolition: 2016-17 maig42 Yiling Zhou Nina De Coster Matilde Scali Magali Cleemput Igor Mikitišin Didong Chen   Studio Burak Pak: COLLECTIVE URBAN SPACES FOR SUPER DIVERSITY 2016-17 maib42 Usai Mara Tran Trung Tin Tran […]

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Masterdissertation projects 2015-16 per studio

LAUREATE Ghent: Iwo Borkowicz: A symbiotic relation of cooperative social housing and dispersed tourism in Havana Vieja LAUREATE Brussels: Fadi Belouni: Ensjø, Oslo: toward a new productive landscape   Studio Luc Eeckhout and Sandy De Bruycker (2015-2016 maighent42) Van Holm Lien: Groeik(l)as Sint-Bernadette: In whick way can we use fallow land to (re)integrate people in a […]

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Publication call for submissions: Design in Unreal Times

The global pandemic is causing major disruption to our daily lives. While longer-term impacts remain to be seen, our faculty of architecture will document the social, cultural, financial and spatial changes that are currently unfolding around us. We ask in the broadest terms, how these unreal times are changing the nature of design and speculate […]

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GOING PUBLIC lecture #3 / Aslı Çiçek: Building Transient Stories 12/02

We invite you to attend the third lecture in our GOING PUBLIC series, part of the CRAFTSMANSHIP engagement, curated by Tomas Ooms: Aslı Çiçek Building Transient Stories On architecture and the art of exhibition making Wednesday 12-02-2020, 18h30 Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Gent Room A142 Hoogstraat 51 9000 Gent The GOING PUBLIC program of the […]

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Van Hove Award 2019 for Sophie Leemans, Kuang-Liang Lo and Dorine Van Der Bank.

  On October 19, 2019, the 9-person jury of the Van Hove prize met at the headquarters of the UPA-BUA (professional union of architects). The proclamation took place on November 20. The jury decided to respect the diversity of five selected projects without giving priority to a particular aspect with a unique prize and unanimously […]

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New Publication / WTC Tower Teachings

Out now: ‘WTC Tower Teachings’ is a pile of texts on the one and a half years of WTC24, the temporary setting of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture at the 24th floor of the WTC complex in Brussels. It was a great period that allowed us to reflect upon architectural and urban production in […]

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Information sessions on Master dissertation 19-20

For students who will graduate in the International Master of Architecture in 2019-20: To give you a good overview of all the possibilities for your MD project, we organize two information sessions where the academic supervisors for your campus will present their MD studio. This information session will take place on Friday 21 June 2019, at […]

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Master dissertation projects 2018-19 per studio

LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Ghent – Linde Van Bleyenbergh LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Brussels – Simon Desimpelaere   Studio maib 42 Hannes Van Damme Charlie Lanckvrind Eva Van Craenenbrouck Katya Estrada Kriti Goswami Nangula Shilongo Simon Desimpelaere Ynsel Heremans   Studio maig42 Tomas Ooms Alessandro Cugola Anna Dasko Asli Kolbas Bojana Rankovic Charlotte […]

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In Practice / Raamwerk & Dyvik Kahlen 6/05/19

The research group IN PRACTICE presents a platform for architecture practices at the heart of research through lectures, PhDs, seminars and books. Monday 06 May 2019 Brussels North Station (slope towards Rogier) 11:00  PhD Intermediate Presentation Tomas Ooms (Studio Tuin en Wereld) supervisors : Harold Fallon, Martine De Maeseneer, Kris Scheerlinck, Tadeja Zupancic. 14:00  Research […]

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Expo / Dogma – Rooms

The exhibition Rooms explores the domestic space via its simplest manifestation: a room. Taking this as a starting point, Dogma (Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara) presents the results of two distinct lines of enquiry: The Room of One’s Own, which focuses on the history and function of the private room, and Loveless, which charts the […]

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A BRAVE NEW WORLD DESIGN STUDIO

  Change is a challenging prospect as it disrupts our worlds and threatens profoundly engrained claims on livelihood, societal status, comfort, safety and security. The design studio ‘A BRAVE NEW WORLD’ is a call to cease the fear of change and to embrace it as a positive agent that enables the transition to better futures. […]

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The selections for Week van het Ontwerpen 2018 – We Are The Next Generation!

  Since 2004, the Week van het Ontwerpen (18-22 October 2018) has put creative and innovative student projects in the spotlight. The core of the event is the exhibition We are the next generation with the best student projects from Flemish design schools. 44 student projects were selected for the 2018 edition. The Faculty of […]

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Information sessions on Master dissertation 18-19

  Dear future Master Dissertation students, Most of you will enroll next year for the Master Dissertation design studio of the International Master. In order to provide you with all information about the way of working, the studio calendar and to inform you about the pool of possible academic promotors that can follow up your […]

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Master dissertation projects 2017-18 per studio

LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Ghent – Juan Thibaut de Maisières LAUREATE for Master of Architecture Brussels – Sophia Holst   Studio maib42 Martino Tattara Vittorio Degli Innocenti Mario Ghetti Seppe Claes Ewout De Bleser Hristina Stojchevska Onur Can Zorlutuna Annik Keoseyan   Studio maig42 Martino Tattara Zuzana Kovalova Ursula Mendo Pauline Auerochs Marek Vilášek […]

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2018-19 master dissertation studio allocations

Dear future Master Dissertation students, We are happy to inform you that the studio allocations for the master dissertation studios are published and available online  via www.box.com : intma.201819@mdma.be 201819.intma or via the links below : 2018-19 maib42 : https://app.box.com/s/tewv4j3hidob929slv2sgp5k5eu6gqtg 2018-19 maig42 : https://app.box.com/s/fp6wc639yjeoyzctbhagvnsgln1q1vmn For any further inquiry please feel free to contact me via  martine.demaeseneer@kuleuven.be or Tomas Ooms via tomas.ooms@kuleuven.be It is of […]

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Lecture by Tomas Ooms: Strange Bodies: Corpus Alienum 21/03/18

On Wednesday 21 March Tomas Ooms is invited for a lecture at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel  during the ‘Islands of Brussels’ Architecture Week (by the Architectural Engineering department of the VUB and student organisation bru:tecture)ru:tecture) This event is public, but registration is strictly required. Please register here. Strange Bodies: Corpus Alienum:  A self-respecting island does not […]

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Lecture external jury members: Lukas PAUER & Chotima Ag-ukrikul 10/01

Design Studio Cecilia Chiappini Collective Spaces and Infrastructures and Design Studio Livia de Bethune Health City (maib14-Bruno Peeters) Open Lecture by External Jury Members: January 10th, 2018. 12-13h, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels, Auditorium. LUKAS PAUER: Staging Facts on the Ground: On Growing Islands Growing Nations. Chotima Ag-ukrikul: From Eatscape to Landscape Notes on Livable City Making […]

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Temple Talks with Pier Vittorio Aureli 19/12

Pier Vittorio Aureli (w Martino Tattara in DOGMA) The Room of One’s Own. A Short History of the ‘Private Room’ The room is perhaps the most obvious form of architecture, and yet it is the least investigated. It seems that the room has always been there, and that as dwellers, and then as architects, we […]

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Lecture / IN PRACTICE @ BEL:EST Een labo voor Europa in Brussel – VERSA & B210 w/ Tomas Ooms

You are kindly invited to the next IN PRACTICE lecture and conversation at Bozar with Tomas Ooms. A joint organization of KULeuven and ULiege with AgwA architects (Harold Fallon).

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Information sessions on Master dissertation 17-18 Dear future Master Dissertation students, Most of you will enroll next year for the Master Dissertation design studio. In order to provide you with all information about the way of working, the studio calendar and to inform you about the pool of possible academic promotors that can follow up […]

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Information session on Master dissertation 16-17

Dear future Master Dissertation students, Most of you will enroll next year for the Master Dissertation design studio. In order to provide you with all information about the way of working, the studio calendar and to inform you about the pool of possible academic promotors that can follow up your research and design process, we […]

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Master dissertation projects 2015-16 per studio

Laureate Ghent: Iwo Borkowicz: A symbiotic relation of cooperative social housing and dispersed tourism in Havana Vieja Laureate Brussels:Fadi Belouni: Ensjø, Oslo: toward a new productive landscape   Studio Luc Eeckhout and Sandy De Bruycker (2015-2016 maighent42) Van Holm Lien: Groeik(l)as Sint-Bernadette: In whick way can we use fallow land to (re)integrate people in a community? […]

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Open Call: International Student Workshop – Port City Talks. Istanbul. Antwerp.

17-21 January 2016, MAS Antwerp An international student workshop is organised as one of the events of the finissage of the ‘Port City Talks. Istanbul. Antwerp.’ (Europalia Turkey). The finissage of the exhibition “Port City Talks. İstanbul. Antwerp.” wishes to present the content and reflections of the exhibition to a broader audience of architects, urban […]

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Outgoing Exchange Students INT MA AR

IMPORTANT: The outgoing exchange INT MA AR students that will be abroad in the semester before the Master Dissertation Design Studio, will register for the first 5 ECTS credits of the Master Dissertation Design studio (OPO42) of the Master of Architecture programme: totally, this OPO counts for 30 ECTS credits: 5 (sem 3) + 25 […]

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INFO SESSIONS new curriculum INT MA AR

Dear students, a new curriculum for the International Master of Architecture has been approved at the Permanent Education Commission. This will be applied to all enrolled students from next academic year 2015-2016. In order to inform you about these changes and the modified criteria for intercontinental and erasmus exchange within our program, we organise information […]

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Sara Alaie – Ting-Chun Lee – Brend Schoukens: HRV HUB

Urban Context Close to the canal of Brussels, the location of TIR (transport International Routier) Logistics Centre is on the junction of industrial, commercial and residential zone. In the north and the west of this logistic centre, there is a rather massive residential district with parks and public facilities; in the south, there are several […]

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Craftsmanship team 20-21

Bram Aerts Jan Baes Laurens Bekemans Tom Broekaert Robin Schaeverbeke Johannes Berry Floris De Bruyn Olivier Goethals Klaas Goris Karen Kesteloot Thierry Lagrange Catherine Mengé Tomas Ooms Christopher Paesbrugghe Matteo Paracchini Petra Pferdmenges Steven Schenk Nele Stragier Hera Van Sande Caroline Voet Dimitri Vangrunderbeek

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Selen Sürmeli – Zeliha Öztürk: INBETWEENNESS

Inbetweenness is a research project* that focuses on the conditions regenerate in between territories, cultures, identities, and physical/imaginary states. The project presents visible and invisible layers in urban context while providing an intervention that catalyzes potential conflicts and tensions in urban/spatial level and mediates contrasting elements and existed conditions. The research starts with approaching binary […]

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Call for Papers Practices in Research #02

The conference and lecture originally planned in March 2020 has been rescheduled for the 22nd of October. Venue: CIVA at KANAL in Brussels Practices in Research is a double blind peer-reviewed online publication and a research seminar for practicing architects. The publication and the research seminar explore the ways in which these practices engage in […]

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Alumnia interview: Yasmine Massini

Onder leiding van docent Peter Vansteenkiste-Muylle deden de studenten een reeks interviews met alumni Fredie Floré, Daan De Volder, Tom Callebaut en Yasminne Massini. Deze getuigen van erg waardevolle inzichten in het vakgebied. Yasmine Massini behaalde in academiejaar 2018-19 haar masterdiploma Interieurarchitectuur aan de Faculteit Architectuur van KU Leuven, Campus Sint-Lucas. Momenteel werkt ze als interieurarchitecte […]

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Exhibition: FACTURE – Curating Craftsmanship 12-06

FACTURE Curating Craftsmanship Online Exhibition (Tumblr) Online Exhibition (Instagram) #curatingcraftsmanship #goingpublic_kul #onlineexhibition #wetrekkenonsplan #facture #wunderkammer LAUNCH:  Tuesday 12 May 2020 FINISSAGE: Friday 12 June 2020, 5.30 PM Please register on https://facture.eventbrite.nl in order to receive the link for the closing event, or you can use the following link and password: ‘FACTURE’ ‘Facture’ is the act, process […]

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Publication call for submissions: Design in Unreal Times

The global pandemic is causing major disruption to our daily lives. While longer-term impacts remain to be seen, our faculty of architecture will document the social, cultural, financial and spatial changes that are currently unfolding around us. We ask in the broadest terms, how these unreal times are changing the nature of design and speculate […]

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Online lecture by LIDIA GASPERONI: The Practice of Being a Humanist today 6/05

View the intro leaflet in pdf here. We invite you to join our next GOING PUBLIC (online) lecture #12, part of the Craftsmanship engagement curated by Tomas Ooms: LIDIA GASPERONI ‘The Practice of Being a Humanist today’ Wednesday 6/05/2020, 17h30 On ZOOM Everyone is welcome to join the online lecture! We ask for everyone (visitors […]

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Online lecture by MITCH MILLER / GLASGOW DIALECTOGRAM: Dialectogram and why I make them 23/04

CLICK HERE TO READ THE LEAFLET Faculty of Architecture GOING PUBLIC Lecture series #10 Engagement CRAFTSMANSHIP curated by Tomas Ooms MITCH MILLER / GLASGOW DIALECTOGRAM “Dialectogram and why I make them.” Thursday 23/04/2020, 17h30 On ZOOM This lecture is organized in tandem with Dear Hunter (lecture on 22/04) who will respond to Miller’s talk. Dialectograms […]

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In Practice – Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Agwa Architects 19/03

THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2020 C I.II.III.IV. A RUE DE L’ERMITAGE 55 KLUISSTRAAT 1050 BRUSSELS IN PRACTICE proposes a platform for architecture practices at the heart of research through lectures, PhDs, seminars and books. 14:00 RESEARCH BY PRACTICE SEMINAR Johannes Berry (Sugiberry – KU Leuven) Olivier Henz (Ecorce – U Liège) Tomas Ooms (Studio Tuin en […]

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GOING PUBLIC lecture #3 / Aslı Çiçek: Building Transient Stories 12/02

We invite you to attend the third lecture in our GOING PUBLIC series, part of the CRAFTSMANSHIP engagement, curated by Tomas Ooms: Aslı Çiçek Building Transient Stories On architecture and the art of exhibition making Wednesday 12-02-2020, 18h30, Room A142 Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Gent Hoogstraat 51 9000 Gent The GOING PUBLIC program of the […]

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Van Hove Prijs 2019 for Sophie Leemans, Kuang-Liang Lo and Dorine Van Der Bank.

On October 19, 2019, the 9-person jury of the Van Hove prize met at the headquarters of the UPA-BUA (professional union of architects). The proclamation took place on November 20. The jury decided to respect the diversity of five selected projects without giving priority to a particular aspect with a unique prize and unanimously decided […]

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Tutors

Bram Aerts Laurens Bekemans Floris De Bruyn Olivier Goethals Klaas Goris Karen Kesteloot Sophie Laenen Thierry Lagrange Catherine, Mengé Tomas Ooms (curator/co) Matteo Paracchini Dimitri Vangrunderbeek Hera Van Sande Robin Schaeverbeke Steven Schenk Caroline Voet Image: To (Dis)Appear –Master Dissertation Linde Van Bleyenbergh–Laureate, (2019), Academic Promotor: Tomas Ooms

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WTC Tower Teachings

Out now: ‘WTC Tower Teachings’ is a pile of texts on the one and a half years of WTC24, the temporary setting of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture at the 24th floor of the WTC complex in Brussels. It was a great period that allowed us to reflect upon architectural and urban production in […]

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New Publication / WTC Tower Teachings

Out now: ‘WTC Tower Teachings’ is a pile of texts on the one and a half years of WTC24, the temporary setting of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture at the 24th floor of the WTC complex in Brussels. It was a great period that allowed us to reflect upon architectural and urban production in […]

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New Publication / WTC Tower Teachings

Out now: ‘WTC Tower Teachings’ is a pile of texts on the one and a half years of WTC24, the temporary setting of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture at the 24th floor of the WTC complex in Brussels. It was a great period that allowed us to reflect upon architectural and urban production in […]

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New Publication / WTC Tower Teachings

‘WTC Tower Teachings’ is a pile of texts on the one and a half years of WTC24, the temporary setting of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture at the 24th floor of the WTC complex in Brussels. It was a great period that allowed us to reflect upon architectural and urban production in Brussels while […]

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Ontwerpstudio biag35

NL: Onze mindset (denkpatroon) komt voort uit onze conditionering. Conditionering als het uitvoeren van handelingen die voortkomen uit ons verleden, opvoeding, context en waar we ons geen vragen bij stellen (gewoontes). Het zijn deze gewoontes die mede bepalend zijn voor de manier waarop we denken over wonen. De opdracht MINDSET wil ons denkkader omtrent wonen […]

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