Call for Papers | Lived Interiors: Narratives and Memories
As Found Network Symposium
(29)-30 April 2025, Hasselt, Belgium
Organisers: Bie Plevoets and Nusrat Kamal Ritu, Trace research group @trace_researchgroup , Faculty of Architecture and Arts @facark , UHasselt
Centred around the thematic track of ‘Narratives,’ this symposium explores how (personal and collective) memories embedded in lived interiors are central to understanding their historical and cultural value and how they can be preserved, represented, and activated in contemporary design practices. Three key areas are identified:
* Reading and Representation
* Activating Memory
* Designing with Memory
We invite papers, case studies, and creative contributions that explore these themes in relation to the lived interior, especially those that propose new methodologies or innovative ways of thinking about interior reuse and preservation.
Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Lived Interiors Abstract Submission’ no later than 1 February 2025. For more information and full submission guidelines, see link in bio or visit https://www.uhasselt.be/livedinteriors.
Key dates:
December 2024: Call for papers launched
1 February 2025: Abstract submission deadline
21 March 2025: Notification of acceptance
21 April 2025: Submission of presentations
(29)-30 April 2025 (tbc): Symposium
Open Call for Collaborations!
Do you have an inspiring example you’d like to share that has influenced your approach to the adaptive reuse of the already existing?
Help us build a shared, open access repository of thoughts, practices, ideas and transdisciplinary approaches to adaptive reuse.
We are inviting everyone to share a reference that has inspired or influenced them and might do the same for others.
Your suggestion can take any form – a text, a built project, a drawing, a photograph, an idea, a process, a piece of music… anything at all.
For more details see link in bio or contact us at [email protected]
Image: Rue Haute, Brussels, Belgium. Credit: Adapt, Reuse.
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Adapt, Reuse
An open access, collaborative platform for sharing and discovering ideas, practices and approaches to adaptive reuse across disciplines and cultures.
Launching Friday 1st September 2023
Part of Trace research group at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at UHasselt
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Van 5 tot 7 september 2023 organiseren het @vlaams_architectuurinstituut en @universiteithasselt het internationale colloquium As Found. Het richt zich op ontwerpers, onderzoekers en studenten met een focus op concepten en praktijken die ingrijpen in de bestaande gebouwde omgeving, oftewel 'gevonden architectuur'.
Het colloquium wil vanuit vier verschillende invalshoeken bespreken hoe de hedendaagse architectuur omgaat met de bestaande gebouwde omgeving 'as found'. Het omvat presentaties met een kritische beschouwing van projecten.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Bezorg ons jouw presentatie vóór 31 januari 2023.
Het colloquium is nauw verbonden met de tentoonstelling As Found die van september 2023 tot maart 2024 plaatsvindt in DE SINGEL in Antwerpen. Het is ook verbonden met TRACE, de onderzoeksgroep de Faculteit Architectuur en Kunsten, Universiteit Hasselt.
From 5 to 7 September 2023, the Flanders Architecture Institute and Hasselt University will organize the international colloquium As Found. This colloquium brings together designers, researchers, and students to discuss experimental concepts and practices to intervene in the existing built environment as found.
The colloquium aims to discuss how contemporary architecture deals with the existing built environment ‘as found’ from four different angles. It includes presentations with critical appraisal of projects.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Critical reflections on approaches to working with architecture 'as found' are invited. Send us your presentation before 31 January 2023.
Research seminar Genius Loci examines historical layered places as well as the ways in which and the reasons why some (architectural) elements and approaches were maintained over time and others abandoned. Hand drawing, next to literature, is used as a primary instrument of discovery during explorations of architecture, interior architecture, urban organizations and topographies. Further referred to as 'places'. The students were asked to visit, observe and capture a place in Hasselt. The handed places are part of the assignment because of their strong adaptive reuse qualities and layered accretions: the former prison in Hasselt by Noa architects, the beguinage by Bovenbouw and Z33 by Francesca Torzo.
The Renaissance concept of Chorography was addressed as a drawing instrument to capture both tangible and intangible characteristics of the places. Constructing the chorographies by hand was a long and intensive process that offered the students mental space and time to explore the architecture and capture the intrinsic values and intentions of the original architecture as well as the adaptive reuse intervention.
Selection of the results: Busra Kilisli, Honey Kazerooni, Isaline Lecompte, Axelle Lepape, Atiyeh Akrami.
Come and take a look at our modest exhibition on Lina Bo Bardi's empathic attitude towards Unhão do Solar in Bahia, Brazil. The students of the 2nd master architecture did research on the site, the interventions and ofcourse... the beautiful helical staircase in local Ipe Wood. Come and enjoy the hard work that the students have put toghether, the scale model on 1/4 in oak and the general atmosphere of the exhibition, honouring Lina's spirit.
The big move of Lina Bo Bardi's helical staircase - scale model 1/4.
Exhibition (in progress): January 28th - February 18th in the one and only zitkuil 👀
Research seminar Tactics update ✔️ The Castle of Heers and its barns, 1/50, grey cardboard ✔️
The students of our International Master programme have been working on the façades with the aim to capture its patina, the historical layers and stately appearance. By doing so the laser cutter is addressed. The model's façade is an accumulation of different layers card board to represent the fragile brickwork, the windows and ornaments. Although the laser cutter is a brilliant instrument, the students need a profound understanding of the architecture in order to dissect it into different layers and to master the full capacity of the laser cutter as their instrument.
These are not only marvelous models. Research seminar Tactics addresses the section model as a tool to understand a heritage site.
Featuring the results of the seminar 2019-2020: Cinquantenaire, Brussel (B).
This semester, the students of the international master on adaptive reuse are constructing section models of the castle of Heers (B) as a strategy to capture the rich palimpsest and interwoven timeframes of the heritage site.
Updates will follow 🔜
'Mnemographia' - research seminar Genius Loci 2020-2021
Translating a painting,making a copy as it were, from certain choises. The translation adresses Walter Benjamin's essay Freedom and Fidelity. Recording the process via sketches, the whole became like a palimpsest.
The concept of the memosyne atlas brought all the images together in a panel. The panel presents three types of images and explores a spectrum between the objective, the historical dimension of the site and the more subjective atmospherical qualities.
Student work of @ira_korzh_
