Free entrance

English spoken

Location: Aula Rector Dhanis, University of Antwerp

Registration is mandatory and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Anna Lacaton and Philippe Vassal are internationally known for:

the palais de Tokyo, France

the FRAC in Dunkerque, France

the Café of the Architektur Zentrum, Vienna

and many more...

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RE-INVENT

Architecture is about freedom, generosity, pleasure

Far beyond any aesthetic and formal determination,

beyond the rules, standards and programs,

buildings are beautiful when people feel well in them, when the light inside is beautiful, and the air is pleasant, when the exchange with the outside seems easy and gentle, and

when uses and sensations are unexpected.

The freedom of use, the capacity of the space, the flexibility,

to give the possibility of appropriation,

to give importance to people and uses, are the important qualities we aim in designing the projects.

This refers to the concept of INHABITING.

Inhabiting conveys pleasure, generosity, the freedom to occupy a space,

beyond the functional.

It challenges us to think about the possibilities and capacities of the space around and ahead of oneself.

Designing architecture on the basis of the notion of inhabiting amounts to constructing space from the inside, and not from the outside. This sets down an intention for precision,

and attention.

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About Extra Academy :

‘Extra Academy’ is the spontaneous alliance of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the two art schools of the city, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen. It involves close collaboration with a network of guests and students.

‘Extra Academy’ is a structural service ‘in progress’, offering different tools and trajectories as a supplement to – or disturbance of – academic models and reflexes. Its open program of lectures, performances, workshops, exhibitions and screenings is designed to trigger alternative questions about modes of knowledge production, of research and practice. It probes gaps and unexpected solutions, teasing out the point where ideas materialise, where they are confronted with their palpable consequences. It believes that theory is not an allegory of practice.

‘Extra Academy’ listens, looks, asks and wonders. It collects and distributes conversations, it inquires about the educational turn in the arts and about the turn that will dislodge it, while providing time and space for a plasticity of ideas to manifest themselves.

Language English