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 planners, maritime historians, critics, journalists, consultants, artists and port authorities and students.
The finissage event would like to further investigate the themes explored in “Port City Talks. Istanbul. Antwerp.” exhibition. The goal is to open up a general debate on the concept of port cities and their future developments and rehabilitation practices.
The event would like to create a collective intelligence and to share ideas & notions on harbour cities. The workshop would focus on developing and exploring an understanding of the dynamics of Antwerp and Istanbul as contemporary and future harbour cities.
This four-day workshop is organised by the curator of the exhibition: architect M. Tabanlioglu, one of the leading architects of Turkey. Students from Istanbul Bilgi University Istanbul (TR), Hafencity University Hamburg (DE), and the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven (BE) will collaborate and designerly reflect on the spatial, historical and cultural system of harbour transformation sites. The students are expected research and interpret an understanding of the harbour and its hinterland by using visual and narrative tools like mental mapping, journalism, photography and story telling. The results will be exhibited during the finissage of the ‘Port City Talks. Istanbul. Antwerp.” exhibition.
Practical
– Call for participation: December 07, 2015
– Deadline for submitting application (motivation mail): Monday December 14, 2015
– Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2015
– Eligible for participation are Master students in Programs of Architecture Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven
– Participation is without charge.
– A selection will be made of 5 students, based on the submitted motivation mail
– Participants agree to be present on January 17, 2016 on the previously communicated meeting point (late arrivals or early leave will not be accepted)
Important: We are aware that the workshop takes place during the exams. Participation in the workshop is on a voluntary base. You cannot get excused, nor use the workshop as an excuse for not taking part in the exams. There are no credits to be obtained for taking part in this workshop. The workshop is an opportunity to participate in and experience the atmosphere of an international student workshop close to home. A certificate of participation will be handed out after completion of the workshop.
Please submit a short motivation mail of max. 300 words, in English, to be sent to tomas.ooms@kuleuven.be. This mail will be considered as your application.
For more information email to: tomas.ooms@kuleuven.be
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