{"id":7456,"date":"2026-08-24T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:05:42","slug":"research-seminar-grounded-fabulations-1-2-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/2026\/08\/24\/research-seminar-grounded-fabulations-1-2-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Research seminar: Grounded Fabulations 1-2\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GROUNDED FABULATIONS<br \/>\nInternational Research Seminar\u2013 1 &amp; 2 October 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0of October 2026, a series of (research-)artefacts, (research-)events, and (research-) educational environments will unravel, inviting for your imagination. The international Research Seminar will be fostered by the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture\u2019s research cells\u00a0<strong><em>Architecture &amp; Wicked Matters\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>+\u00a0<strong><em>Radical Materiality\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&amp; Luca School of Arts\u2019 research cluster\u00a0<strong><em>Pedagogy as Lover\u2019s Craft<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grounded Fabulations<\/em>\u00a0is set up by \u2014in alphabetical order\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/over-de-faculteit\/team\/members\/goossens-wim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wim Goossens<\/a>, Roel Kerkhofs, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/over-de-faculteit\/team\/members\/liekens-johan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johan Liekens<\/a>\u00a0in the framework of\u00a0<em>ARTROOM<\/em>. It functions as a platform for research-by-design and artistic research, situated at the intersection of Architecture, Interior Architecture and the Arts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grounded Fabulations<\/em>\u00a0pairs a being fabulated with a being grounded; architectural rumor, hearsay, and gossip with architectural fact. Highly heterogenous, inconsistent, and speculative in nature, the seminar intends to challenge you as an audience. Both literally and figuratively, it suggests an interest in\u00a0<em>what lies beneath<\/em>, whether that is grasped in literal (among other: a material engagement with soil worlds) or figurative terms (among other: the shear interest in grounded gossip in the realms of (interior-)architecture and the arts).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/nieuws-agenda\/poster-seminar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Programme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Registration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Morning Lectures (Keynote by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Frichot) (1 October, <a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/events\/grounded-fabulations-morning-lectures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon Mini-Lectures on and Activating Cabinets of Grounded Fabulations (1 October, <a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/events\/grounded-fabulations-afternoon-mini-lectures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>On 2 October, research cells <em>Architecture &amp; Wicked Matters<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Radical Materiality<\/em>\u00a0are organising an international methodological workshop\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/nieuws-agenda\/gnd\/workshop-ficto-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ficto-Criticism Writing<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>led by Prof. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Frichot,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GROUNDED FABULATIONS International Research Seminar\u2013 1 &amp; 2 October 2026 On the 1st\u00a0and 2nd\u00a0of October 2026, a series of (research-)artefacts, (research-)events, and (research-) educational environments will unravel, inviting for your imagination. The international Research Seminar will be fostered by the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture\u2019s research cells\u00a0Architecture &amp; Wicked Matters\u00a0+\u00a0Radical Materiality\u00a0&amp; Luca School of Arts\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,50,180],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}