Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) is organising a workshops series and lecture with a pop-up exhibition Intersections: Invisible in Architecture. The lastworkshop in this series is about the urgent need to decolonise the ways we do and think architecture. Moderated by Ola Hassanain (resident at Rijksakademie) the workshop will take place in Globe Aroma, Brussels on 25 April 2023, at 18.30.
Exploring care in architecture for its 2022-2023 season, Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) is organising a workshops 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. Simulteanously, 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.
The second workshop in this series is about the urgent need to decolonise the ways we do and think architecture. It is moderated by Ola Hassanain (resident at Rijksakademie).
Ola Hassanain is an architect, artist and researcher working between Sudan and The Netherlands. Her most recent work explores the idea of “space as discourse,” an expanded notion of space that encompasses political and environmental questions. Her work tries to develop a spatial vocabulary that follows how ruptures presented by ‘political events’ make it possible to aspire to new kinds of ecologies. Ola’s development of critical spatial practice is partly informed by her post-academic training; an ongoing Rijksakademie residency, a BAK fellowship 2017-2018 and teaching at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Sandberg Institute amongst others.
See also
Workshop 21.03.2023 Construction, at what cost?
Workshop 02.05.2023 Precarious work in architecture
Pop-up exhibition 17.05-02.07 2023 Intersections: Invisible in Architecture
We ask all the workshop participants to send in a copyright free image when registering to the event. This can be a photo taken by you, a note, a found image. The flow of the workshops will be organised around these images. We hope they will evoke our visual imagination and encourage people to share their thoughts.
Our gatherings will take place in the safe space of Globe Aroma where people are free to express or not express themselves in the way they choose. The language will be determined by the participants, when necessary, we believe whisper translations will happen voluntarily. We foresee a maximum of 60 people joining each workshop, hopefully, some of whom join more than one session. Participation in the workshops is free and we will share food and drinks during the workshops.
In collaboration with illustrator Aya Akbib, the discussions will be visually narrated, respecting anonymity and authorship. The visual narrations together with the image galleries collectively built up throughout the workshops will be exhibited in De Singel from 17 May till 02 July 2023.
25.04.2023
6.30pm
Globe Aroma
Moutstraat 26, 1000 Brussels
free, but registration is necessary
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut
