{"id":424,"date":"2020-09-12T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/?p=424"},"modified":"2020-09-12T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:39:29","slug":"turncoats-architecture-debate-the-good-the-bad-and-the-belgian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/2020\/09\/12\/turncoats-architecture-debate-the-good-the-bad-and-the-belgian\/","title":{"rendered":"Turncoats architecture debate \/ The Good, The Bad and the Belgian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"header_category_container\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"single_left\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>Turncoats is an architecture debate which serves to widen cultural discourse around architecture by challenging the conventions of debates \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cArchitectural debates are rubbish.We\u2019ve all been there: a panel of similar designers with similar views taking it in turns to talk at length about their similar work \u2013 too polite, too deferential, too dull. At best they are lukewarm love-ins, critically impotent, elitist and stuffy. Turncoats is a shot in the arm. Framed by theatrically provocative opening gambits, a series of free debates will rugby tackle fundamental issues facing contemporary practice with a playful and combative format designed to ferment open and critical discussion, turning conventional consensus on its head.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following the success of six initial debates in London, the series has gone international with chapters opening in Serbia, Canada and the US with more to follow this year. The Belgian chapter is launching this Saturday at the Design Museum, as part of 019\u2019s Museum of Moving Practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good, The Bad and the Ugly<\/strong><br \/>\nElsbeth Ronner<br \/>\nJan De Vylder<br \/>\nJob Floris<br \/>\nMartino Tattara<\/p>\n<p>019-Museum of Moving Practice<br \/>\nDrabstraat 10b, 9000 Ghent<\/p>\n<p>Free entrance, please register here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turncoats.world\/belgium\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.turncoats.world\/belgium\"><strong>http:\/\/www.turncoats.world\/belgium<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turncoats is an architecture debate which serves to widen cultural discourse around architecture by challenging the conventions of debates \u2013 \u201cArchitectural debates are rubbish.We\u2019ve all been there: a panel of similar designers with similar views taking it in turns to talk at length about their similar work \u2013 too polite, too deferential, too dull. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}