Monday
Paul de Vries (13 feb | 12.30-13.30)
Dean Hawkes (13 feb | 16.30-18.00)


Tuesday
Jeroen van Schaick (14 feb. | 12.30-13.30)
Marc Boumeester (14 feb. | 19.00-21.00)


Wednesday
Patrick Healy (15 feb. | 12.30-13.30)


Thursday
Jurgen Belien (16 feb. | 12.30-13.30)
Paul Hendriksen (16 feb. | 16.00-18.00)


Friday
Wouter Vanstiphout (17 feb. | 12.30-13.30)

Lecture concerning the environmental imagination: technics and poetics of the architecture

Jeroen van Schaik has recently defended his Phd thesis “time space matters”, and with succes. Exploring the gap between knowing about activity patterns of people and knowing about activity patterns of people and knowing how to design and plan urban area’s and regions

The Asignifying Affordance of Assemblage:
A Heuristic of the Energetics of the Exteriority of Relations


This is an introduction of the urban mapping research project based on the Movement-Image and its 'exhaustion' through enabling constraints/obstructions. The program derived from the research which took place between 2004 and 2011 at the Delft School of Design, and investigated if and how videography could play an additional role in the exploration, registration and understanding of urban environments. Parts of this research have been described in “The Body in Architecture” (Hauptman ed. 2006) and “Urban Cinematics” (Penz, Lu ed. 2011).


To be able to understand this, it is imperative to evaluate architectural conditions solely on their merits as a medium, which expresses its functionality through its relationship with the inhabitants of the Movement-Image, and move towards an assembled notion of reality by applying fundamental systematics to the conciliation process of our personal mediations, removing the fundamental gap between the lived and the intervened. It is this transfer of essential values which forces us to break with the tradition of representation and wholeheartedly embrace the liquid solidity of the affective.


The presentation will be given by Marc Boumeester, joined by Andrej Radman and contains loads of (moving) images.

Patrick Healy was born in Dublin. He went to University Maynooth to practise Philosophy and Sociology and afterwards Near Eastern Languages at University College Dublin. Patrick Healy is currently a professor for Inter-disciplinary research at the Free International University Amsterdam since 1987. Currently he lives and writes in Amsterdam. His first novella ‘Up in the Air and Down’ was followed by publications on contemporary art, monographs on individual artists and books of science and aesthetics. Recently he published a Karl Kraus reader for Penguin books. In 2009 he finished The Model and its Architecture for the Delft School of Design.
Healy is known for his outstanding declamation. He participated at the 52nd Venice Biennial during the Eventi Collaterali. Last October he has orated The Markies van Water by Hilarius Hofstede for a fascinated audience. Patrick Healy has contributed a great deal to PPP, Paleo Psycho Pop, a journal about modern art and philosophical issues, published from 1985 until 2008.

"One of the most important parts of design is communication, both with oneself and with other parties. We draw to convey our ideas. In the workflow of representing these ideas, the computer has become an indispensable tool. Yet, most of the usage scenarios in the architectural practice are either primitive, automating the most basic tasks, or don’t stimulate the creativity of the designer. And, more importantly, in most cases, the computer imposes a certain workflow on the user or sometimes even form on the design-product.

What if we rethink the role of the computer? How can a computer aid us in our personal design process, without dictating a certain usage method?"

Explaining about realizing dwelling based on the earthship concept focusing on the role of the user within the organisation


Social engeneering gets a special ring to it when being applied within the context of so-called Joint Private Commissioning (Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap in Dutch). Paul Hendriksen is the initiator and chair of the board of the Aardehuis association, probably the most forerunning pioneering JPC project in the Netherlands of the moment. This Spring, the Aardehuis association is about to start building 23 eco-homes based on the ‘earthship’-concept, in Olst in the eastern part of the Netherlands. The whole of the plan is rooted in the principles of permaculture – a method of designing a viable habitat for humans, (other) animals and edible plant life alike.


Hendriksen is also the spokesman for the Dutch branch of the Transition Towns movement, a fast-growing international grassroots movement which aims to help bring back resilience to our society in the face of the tripple challenges of climate change, peak oil (the peak in the production of cheap oil) and the unavoidable decline of our economic system based on unlimited growth.


In his lecture, he weaves together both of these aspects of his work, challenging the audience to question their beliefs about what the future of modern society will look like. He will specifically look at the human factor in city planning and building enterprises – being a strong advocate of the ideal of people regaining control over all aspects of their own lives.


Paul Hendriksen (44) has been active in the environmental movement for some 20 years. Recently, he has been a lecturer on sustainable building engeneering at the Windesheim University of applied sciences. The national newspaper Trouw has awarded him the 25th position in their 2011 edition of the Sustainable 100 list of most influential Dutch persons in the field of sustainability.

Explaining about realizing dwelling based on the earthship concept focusing on the role of the user within the organisation