Pachecolaan 34, 1000 Brussel, 1st floor
Friday 10 June 22
9:00-18:00
Architecture Workroom Brussels
Future Places Forum
How do we transform our living environment to meet the ambitious goals we have set for ourselves? How can spatial design and the architectural practice be a persuasive force for this change? And how can we multiply Future Places to initiate a process of transformation?
A multidisciplinary coalition behind The Great Transformation has drawn up an agenda of ten typological projects that are the prefiguration of a promising future. Their seeds are already present in today’s cities, neighbourhoods, and landscapes. Around each of the ten Future Places, architectural projects, models, plans, impressions, photos, and videos are collected in the exhibition Prefigurations.
The exhibition is conceived as a working environment. On Friday the 10th of June an open series of conversations will be organised. The Future Places Forum brings together the actors involved in the selected projects. The contemporary architectural productions reveal the seeds of the necessary societal transitions and steer the optimisation of both the designing as the commissioning practice. The ambitious goals that we set as a society are thus given a tangible translation in today's everyday projects and environments. The aim is to collectively unravel the interconnections and interdependencies between architects of all sorts, transition practices and societal dynamics in the field of urban transformation and to broaden and sharpen the supporting framework for each of the Future Places.
During the day, four parallel conversations will be set up, followed by a plenary conclusive one. The practices will be invited to present the selected architectural projects and join a collective conversation. By bringing together diverse actors, a dialogue will be set up between the architectural practices and private, public and civil society stakeholders.
Morning sessions 9:30 -12:30
Conversation #1 (parallel to Conversation #2)
DESIGN AS PREFIGURATION OF SYSTEM CHANGES, looking into the need for a systemic spatial approach to tackle the Food-Water-Energy-Circular Economy transitions.
Conversation #2 (parallel to Conversation #1)
NEW PROJECT CONSTELLATIONS: COOPERATIVES AND COMMONS, investigating the need for more collective driven financial and organizational models to accelerate spatial transformations with local and collective added value.
Afternoon sessions 14:00 -17:00
Conversation #3 (parallel to Conversation #4)
A NEW ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE, questioning and investigating the need for a design practice for change.
Conversation #4 (parallel to Conversation #3)
NEW SOCIETAL INFRASTRUCTURE, reflecting on the need of new types of spaces making place for inclusiveness, care, community building, supporting the shift that our society is facing.
Conclusive conversation 17:00 -18:00
Conversation #5
TOWARD AN INNOVATION HOUSE FOR THE NEW BAUKULTUR, concluding the day by unrevealing the need for a new culture around the design and building practice, connecting all four previous sessions to each other.
Register to the Future Places Forum here
The opening days of the exhibition are part of the New European Bauhaus festival in Brussels. The Future Places Forum is set up in dialogue with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Prefigurations is part of the summer program of Brussels 2030. With the support of the Flemish Government and the Brussels Capital Region.