Exchange in Practice 2026, a joint initiative by the Nieuwe Instituut and the Vlaams Architectuurinstituut (VAi), brought together practitioners exploring alternative positions within architecture today. The premise of the assembly revolved around a fundamental aspect of spatial practice: working with and around constraints, especially those that render the built environment more rigid and uniform. During the two-day conference in Rotterdam, we questioned these dominant logics, while discussing approaches that engage with uncertainty, and layered social and material realities.
Organised by @vlaams_architectuurinstituut and @nieuweinstituut
A series of photographs documenting the ever-changing context of De Singel in Antwerp. Produced as part of a collaboration with @aga.batkiewicz and her ‘Changing Settings’ project. This work formed Table Setting no.13 of the @vlaams_architectuurinstituut table setting series. #documentation #architecture #architecturephotography #analog
This week we concluded Weiterbauen 3.0, a studio co-tutored with Mechthild Stuhlmacher and Freek Dendooven at @arch_kuleuven . The studio focused on the redevelopment of Het Trappenhuis, a brutalist school building from 1960s. Congratulation to all the students for their hard work and fantastic results. The studio is part of the exhibition at @supersalonkul , on view at Twiggy until Monday 12/1.
As part of the seminar ‚Designing with the Underground: the Einstein Telescope’, we visited the former mining site in Plombières to study the geological layers, mining heritage, and infrastructural traces that frame our exploration for the upcoming project.
With UHasselt, October 2025.
Excited to share that I’ll be part of the BORING – Three Evenings of Soil Readings symposium from September 4 to 6, 2025 at Decoratelier, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek.🌱
A symposium around soil that roots around the forgotten stories and future dreams.
Dates: September 4–6, 2025
Time: Lectures & readings from 18:00 to 22:00; concerts from 22:00 to 23:00 
Location: Decoratelier, Kortrijksestraat 47, 1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
I’m happy to look back on Tafelzetting #13, currently on view at de Singel.
The installation reflects on the overlooked territories along Antwerp’s Ring Road - a series of ‘islands’ where infrastructure and nature meet. The project brings together fieldwork, photography, and storytelling to explore and reinterpret these landscapes in motion, as seen from the vantage point of de Singel.
Thanks to everyone who visited and engaged with the work.
Photography: @jasonladrigan
Stitching: Sofie Van Aelbroeck
Table frames by: @lauramuyldermans.info
Many thanks to: @vlaams_architectuurinstituut@desingelartscentre
Photo credits: Dieter Daniëls
This semester I'll be teaching a master design studio titled 'Extractive Landscapes. On Being Resourceful' at KU Leuven.
The studio explores present and past extractive, terra-, and transformative practices taking place in the Kempen basin in Belgian Limburg. The early days of the Industrial Revolution brought mining operations to the region, along with rapid urbanisation, railways, and roads, which forever altered the preexisting landscape. We will follow one of these routes - the N74 road, and use it as an exploratory axis for the project.
Today, as a new future is being drawn for the N74 route, Limburg’s landscape will once again be subject to change. The redevelopment of the road presents an opportunity to critically examine the amount of energy used in extraction, demolition, production, and construction practices, both past and present. @arch_kuleuven
The project ‘Productive Commons’ is an ongoing research into spaces of light production and urban manufacturing, existing in Keilekwartier in Rotterdam.
Proposed interventions examine the future of the area, by identifying and utilising harbour’s post-industrial relicts.
How can we retain harbour’s productive character, while responding to the growing needs for the transformation?
The project was realised with studio Iza Slodka, Federica Zetta, Adi Samet and @dividual.office
Lately I’ve been busy working on the large-scale infrastructural project in the Belgian Limburg. The aim is to understand the road not only as a product of engineering, but as an architectural artefact that engages with its context.
In the north, near the village of Klevitwijk, we’re reconstructing a historical dune, which had existed there until flattened out to give space for the local industry. As a consequence, the volumeless road becomes a complex, three-dimensional node, interwoven with surrounding it landscape.
Project with @nuarchitectuur , in collaboration with @maatontwerpers
Lately I’ve been busy working on the large-scale infrastructural project in the Belgian Limburg. The aim is to understand the road not only as a product of engineering, but as an architectural artefact that engages with its context.
In the north, near the village of Klevitwijk, we’re reconstructing a historical dune, which had existed there until flattened out to give space for the local industry. As a consequence, the volumeless road becomes a complex, three-dimensional node, interwoven with surrounding it landscape.
Project with @nuarchitectuur , in collaboration with @maatontwerpers
