The Capa.City Game is an exploratory game which supports collectives to structure collective actions to bring change to their everyday environments. The tool consists of five separate mini-games which guide a collective to strengthen its capacities to envision, evaluate and operationalize collective objectives for spatial transformation. By means of step...
In april 2018 we will organize our first PhD workshop "Debating residential subdivisions". We welcome any presentation of PhD researchers that reflect on (1) the participation of different actors in transforming residential subdivisions, (2) the architectural and urban forms produced during such transformations and (3) the potential intensification of uses induced in these...
Experimenting with Making as a method for conducing interviews with inhabitants during the seminar “Iedereen deelt in Runkst” (Everybody shares in Runkst) with master architecture students of the University of Hasselt. Discussing about how people live and what they share through a generic Runkst house paper model as a domestic...
Today the first meeting with the inhabitants of the residential subdivision we will study in Lanaken. A first insight into the life of the neighborhood with Günther and Martin. ...
Participation to the Summer School in Maasmecheln (BE) on Urbanized Protected Areas to explore possibilities for residential subdivisions retrofitting on the border with the Hoge Kempen National Park, together with architects, biologists, lawyers and economists. An interdisciplinary insight into retrofitting. (http://www.uhasselt.be/UH/FieldResearchCentre/Topical/News/2017/Interdisciplinary-Summerschool-on-Urbanized-Protected-Areas.html)...
Turnhout tour – Exploring Turnhout and its surroundings with Hanne Jacobs from Turnhout Stads Regio Turnhout. ...
Lanaken Tour, first explorations of Lanaken with Patricia Kusters, Spatial Planner, Lanaken Municipality http://www.lanaken.be ...
A first meeting in Bruxelles with Thomas Lommée, partner of Capa.City project to discuss about OpenStractures and possibilities for exploring making as a method in the retrofitting of residential subdivisions. The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis...
Today took place the Kick-off meeting with Patricia and Hanne form the municipalities of Lanaken and Turnhout (Blegium) to discuss about the (spatial) challenges of residential subdivisions and map interesting locations for CAPA.CITY Belgian case studies. ...