Other Ways of Doing Architecture: Designing Situations
Masterproef 2023-24
Supervisor: Dag Boutsen
Campus: Ghent (or BXL)
Language: EN
Description of the project:
This master dissertation studio will focus on the 5 means through which architectural actions or products are achieved when designing situations. These 5 means, including a (historical) database form the basis of a project called Spatial Agency (www.spatialagency.net, by Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till).
The interest in means such as appropriation, dissemination, empowerment, networking and subversion emerges out of my expertise in co-creative design. My career as an architect is built up on numerous workshops with stakeholders, large housing projects in Europe based on participatory design processes, work with Lucien Kroll, exhibitions with Patrick Bouchain, research work, etc…
Spatial Agency is a project that presents a new way of looking at how buildings and space can be produced. Moving away from architecture’s traditional focus on the look and making of buildings, Spatial Agency proposes a much more expansive field of opportunities in which architects and non-architects can operate. It suggests other ways of doing architecture.
Expected output:
This master dissertation studio will focus on the 5 means through which architectural actions or products are achieved when designing situations. These 5 means, including a (historical) database form the basis of a project called Spatial Agency (www.spatialagency.net, by Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till).
The interest in means such as appropriation, dissemination, empowerment, networking and subversion emerges out of my expertise in co-creative design. My career as an architect is built up on numerous workshops with stakeholders, large housing projects in Europe based on participatory design processes, work with Lucien Kroll, exhibitions with Patrick Bouchain, research work, etc…
Spatial Agency is a project that presents a new way of looking at how buildings and space can be produced. Moving away from architecture’s traditional focus on the look and making of buildings, Spatial Agency proposes a much more expansive field of opportunities in which architects and non-architects can operate. It suggests other ways of doing architecture.
References/Further reading:
See https://www.blog-archkuleuven.be/designing-situations/21-22