On Thursday 22 October PAF (Platform voor Architectuur & Feminisme) and the Faculty of Architecture come together for an evening about Collective Care in Design Education. This conversation is the first in a series of travelling conversations organised by PAF in collaboration with architecture and design schools across Flanders and Brussels. Together, we explore how a feminist and intersectional perspective can contribute to more inclusive, diverse and caring forms of design education.
Join this first conversation, focused on methods of collective care in design education. Starting from the experiences of students and teachers, this conversation explores how we can foster a culture of care from the studio to the auditorium and back. Which habits can we rethink, and what new methods can we try? Together, we reflect on how small shifts in everyday educational practices can contribute to transforming design education.
Guests:
• Marie Scheidmann & Julien Jacob (@iulieniacob) – Both architects with backgrounds in student initiatives, including Horizonte, Écoles Troubles, EASA and student boards. Together they initiated ‘Not an Elective’ at KU Leuven, a student-led course focused on shaping and discussing the learning environment.
• Virginia Sonko Fati (@a.gini.us) – Architecture student at the University of Antwerp.
• Jan Bleyen – Anthropological historian and a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at KU Leuven.
• Nadia Casabella (@nadia.casabella) Architect and urban planner and a professor at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta (ULB) and co-founder with Bert Gellynck of 1010au.
• Sotiria Kornaropoulou (@sotiria_kornaropoulou) – Architect and partner at 51N4E and studio tutor, jury member for architecture students at Ghent University.
• Soumaya Baidaoui (@maya_baidaoui) & Yasmine Amrani (@yasmineamraniii) – Architecture students at KU Leuven and part of @3ca_collective, a student collective inviting us to rethink architectural education.
• Luc van Basten Batenburg – Architecture master’s student at KU Leuven and a student representative.
• Liesbeth Huybrechts (@liesbit) – Professor in the areas of participatory design, design anthropology and socio-environmental transformation processes in the research group Civic and Policy Design, Arck, University of Hasselt.
• Sam De Vocht (@samdevocht) – Architect, urban ecologist and researcher. He teaches at UAntwerpen, TU Delft and EKA Tallinn.
- Info & tickets (pay what you can): www.paf.community.
- Thursday 22 October, 19:00 – 21:00, Faculty of Architecture (Paleizenstraat 65, 1030 Brussels)
- ***Come early and enjoy a free visit to Helen Van de Vloet’s installation Chronografictie from 18:00 to 19:00.