VAI: Construction, at what cost? (Workshop 1)
Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) is organising a workshop series and lecture with a pop-up exhibition Intersections: Invisible in Architecture. The first workshop in this series is about the social and environmental costs of construction, (migrant) labour conditions and extraction practices.
Moderated by Ken De Cooman (BC Architects & Studies) the workshop will take place in Globe Aroma, Brussels on 21 March 2023, at 6.30pm.
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Construction, at what cost?
Exploring care in architecture for its 2022-2023 season, Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) is organising a workshop series and lecture with a pop-up exhibition Intersections: Invisible in Architecture. Central to this thought-provoking series co-curated by Hülya Ertas and Luce Beeckmans is the question: “Who has been marginalized by / silenced in the architectural production?” In the series Intersections: Invisible in Architecture, we ambition to collectively discuss those groups of people, often at the intersection of class, race and gender, that are essential for the architectural production, but that are nonetheless marginalised or forgotten by it. Simultaneously, we will discuss what the consequences of these processes of precarization, marginalization and silencing are for the discipline and practice of architecture. Hence, in a decolonial spirit, we will touch upon those issues which today’s architectural production does not see or perhaps does not want to see.
- Ken De Cooman is co-founder of BC Architects & Studies and BC Materials. With these companies, BC starts from architecture, over research and expertise and experiment, towards material production and contracting. As a hybrid office, BC is manoeuvring the boundaries of all these disciplines in a doers manner. Ken De Cooman holds a master’s in philosophy and architecture and is a candidate in psychology. He has published reflections in OASE and Domus; has (guest) taught at KULeuven, ULB-LaCambre, ETH Zurich and the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City development.
Registration via VAI website.
- Workshop 1: 21.03.2023 Bouwen: tegen welke prijs?
- Workshop 2: 02.05.2023 Onzeker werk in de architectuur
- Workshop 3: 02.05.2023 Herpositionering van de architectuurcultuur vanuit de marge
- Pop-up tentoonstelling 17.05-02.07 2023 Intersections: Invisible in Architecture