Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels
maib14
Academic year 2025/26
Lars Fischer
Landing (The Farm)
“[…] there is nothing more innovative, nothing more present, subtle, technical, and artificial (in the positive sense of the word), nothing less rustic and rural, nothing more creative, nothing more contemporary than to negotiate landing on some ground.”
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth.
In this studio we will explore together what positions architecture can take in embracing indeterminacy and what transformation means for design. We will approach architecture from a decidedly ecological and social perspective. In looking at different ways in which our bodies engage with our surrounding the studio is also inherently political.
Departing from the site, an active organic vegetable farm dating from 1866 in rural Flanders, this studio will take a detailed look at how the architecture of the farm is defined and created by its terrain, beyond the mere technical and historical. We will search for the stories that are told by various actors and agents and try out how these stories can guide us. The farmstead will be the site of both exploration and experimentation.
This will be context for a new school, that operates outside the confines of the institution. This school is a project initiated by NDRGRND to engage alternative forms of learning (and unlearning) from and with the farm, a place where a complex layering of life and work (human/non-human), history, and future converge. We will look at how we can intervene architecturally, to create a new context for learning on the farm. The aim is to together conceive an architecture not only for learning, but of learning, from and with the farm and to “negotiate landing on some ground.”
- Detailed studio description as pdf.
- Results of the Ill-tempered farm studio 24-25
(image credit: Sara ten Westenend)
