This studio aims at enabling urban commons through architecture. The student will explore architecture’s capacity for triggering social transformation based on solidarity, shared ownership, sustainable production and consumption and fair distribution, as well autonomy, self-determination and self- organization. To boost this capacity, the contemporary discussions on urban commons provides a wide and generous experimental ground for space-making. In a post-capitalist context, the students will rethink architectural design as a bottom-up solidarity spatial practice which critiques neoliberalism and imagine possibilities for alternative modes of shared living based on anti-capitalist values.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tA dream of a world without property (either material or immaterial) rights. An architecture of unlocked doors, permeable walls, temporarily occupied and shared smart -in terms of ecology and economy, as well as technology- habitats; the co-creation of collective living, decision-making, care-taking based on interde-pendence of diverse subjectivities, skills, and motivations.
\nHow can the concepts of the common good, critical spatial practice and post-capitalism, the agency of hacking and feminism help us to create the commons architecture?
\nThis studio aims at enabling urban commons through architecture. The student will explore architecture’s capacity for triggering social transformation based on solidarity, shared ownership, sustainable production and consumption and fair distribution, as well as autonomy, self-determination, and self- organization. To boost this capacity, the contemporary discussions on urban commons provides a wide and generous experimental ground for space-making. In a post-capitalist context, the students will rethink architectural design as a bottom-up solidarity spatial practice which critiques neoliberalism and imagine possibilities for alternative modes of shared living based on anti-capitalist values.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tA dream of a world without property (either material or immaterial) rights. An architecture of unlocked doors, permeable walls, temporarily occupied and shared smart -in terms of ecology and economy, as well as technology- habitats; the co-creation of collective living, decision-making, care-taking based on interdependence of diverse subjectivities, skills, and motivations.
\nConstruction sites in Brussels are omnipresent. They tend to experience a lot of delay and are very apparent in the urban landscape of Brussels. Characterized by clutter, disorder, inaccessibility and excessive intermittent noise exposure to citizens these annoying enclaves are a constant sight in any city. In this master dissertation I explore possibilities to alleviate the collateral damage caused by these construction sites and offer a flexible approach for stakeholders to do this collectively.
\nOften times these sites are not always active while still affecting their surroundings in the form of diversions, decline in revenue for neighboring commercial activities and poor accessibility. Infrastructure works are heavy surgical operations that take a long time. These exposed open wounds in the urban tissue are not taken care of for years on end sometimes. A temporary situation becomes a permanent one much too often. Because different infrastructure works in different places can overlap these landscapes can become a permanent situation for some residents that travel from commune to commune, perhaps from building site to building site on a daily basis. Traditionally Brussels has been subject to a lot of urban trauma.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tMy focus for this dissertation is Place Liedts. A quare with many stakeholders and actors that is about to experience serious redevelopment in the form of the introduction of a new metroline that will run from south (Albert) to the North (Bordet) of Brussels. This process is likely to induce trauma in the neighborhoods involved and adequate urban strategies need to be thought of to minimize the impact.
\nThe primary objective for a successful construction site is cooperation and communication between the different stakeholders. My project aims to introduce a commons platform that allows for cooperation and synergistic activities so that any involved stakeholder can identify with their changing environment and commercial activities do not suffer to the point of bankruptcy. This includes inhabitants amongst others. The result is a draft proposal for multiple approaches that directly respond to the different types of situations that might occur during construction.
\nThe strategy of this plan to identify many socio spatial, sonic, educational and restaurative potentials of a construction site. To break free from the current no-man’s-land paradigm associated with construction sites and look at how construction sites in public space can be exploited to benefit a neighborhood on the short term. The introduction\nof a new metro line is undoubtedly one of the most invasive public infrastructure works. According to the current planning (November 2018) it is said to take a decade to complete. It is unsure if there will be delays. It is clear that this square is now a hub but a ten-year span might actually relocate this hub temporarily and disrupt the local economy. The construction site poses a real threat to the vibrant Place Liedts. It is of primary interest that this in- between phase is addressed thoroughly to provide remedies on the short term. Both for social, health and economic purposes.\nIn this project I also critically evaluate the redesigned square and test its acoustic performance against current conditions using recordings for the current situation and simulations for the future square. Based on earlier research I provide some strategies to create a more healthy and interesting soundscape in this new square.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "Construction sites in Brussels are omnipresent. They tend to experience a lot of delay and are very apparent in the urban landscape of Brussels. Characterized by clutter, disorder, inaccessibility and excessive intermittent noise exposure to citizens these annoying enclaves are a constant sight in any city. In this master dissertation I explore possibilities to alleviate the collateral damage caused by these construction sites and offer a flexible approach for stakeholders to do this collectively.\nOften times these sites are not always active while still affecting their surroundings in the form of diversions, decline in revenue for neighboring commercial activities and poor accessibility. Infrastructure works are heavy surgical operations that take a long time. These exposed open wounds in the urban tissue are not taken care of for years on end sometimes. A temporary situation becomes a permanent one much too often. Because different infrastructure works in different places can overlap these landscapes can become a permanent situation for some residents that travel from commune to commune, perhaps from building site to building site on a daily basis. Traditionally Brussels has been subject to a lot of urban trauma.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tMy focus for this dissertation is Place Liedts. A quare with many stakeholders and actors that is about to experience serious redevelopment in the form of the introduction of a new metroline that will run from south (Albert) to the North (Bordet) of Brussels. This process is likely to induce trauma in the neighborhoods involved and adequate urban strategies need to be thought of to minimize the impact.\nThe primary objective for a successful construction site is cooperation and communication between the different stakeholders. My project aims to introduce a commons platform that allows for cooperation and synergistic activities so that any involved stakeholder can identify with their changing environment and commercial activities do not suffer to the point of bankruptcy. This includes inhabitants amongst others. The result is a draft proposal for multiple approaches that directly respond to the different types of situations that might occur during construction.\nThe strategy of this plan to identify many socio spatial, sonic, educational and restaurative potentials of a construction site. To break free from the current no-man’s-land paradigm associated with construction sites and look at how construction sites in public space can be exploited to benefit a neighborhood on the short term. The introduction\nof a new metro line is undoubtedly one of the most invasive public infrastructure works. According to the current planning (November 2018) it is said to take a decade to complete. It is unsure if there will be delays. It is clear that this square is now a hub but a ten-year span might actually relocate this hub temporarily and disrupt the local economy. The construction site poses a real threat to the vibrant Place Liedts. It is of primary interest that this in- between phase is addressed thoroughly to provide remedies on the short term. Both for social, health and economic purposes.\nIn this project I also critically evaluate the redesigned square and test its acoustic performance against current conditions using recordings for the current situation and simulations for the future square. Based on earlier research I provide some strategies to create a more healthy and interesting soundscape in this new square.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/70cd939f42191286fb04099f0b92566d.jpg", "caption": "Render- Bird view ", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/70cd939f42191286fb04099f0b92566d.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/77923f0b8574-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/77923f0b8574-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/a3a735bb387081df4e15d1044e0b5fc3.jpg", "caption": "Render- Bird view ", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/a3a735bb387081df4e15d1044e0b5fc3.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/8e9d8436b5c5-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/8e9d8436b5c5-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/ef1f18e814c90759303deb5db7494c34.png", "caption": "Drawing: Architectural Intervention", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/ef1f18e814c90759303deb5db7494c34.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/0cb61cb0f605-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/0cb61cb0f605-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/655e5e337eda256f26911e7767dd98c7.jpg", "caption": "Render- Bird view ", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/655e5e337eda256f26911e7767dd98c7.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/7ef5bfeadd51-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/7ef5bfeadd51-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/17e94cb0a730-display.webp" }, { "id": "school-camp-us", "edition": "commons-1819", "year": "2018–2019", "type": "Master design studio", "title": "School Camp-us Rethinking the Architectural school as a commons through participatory design", "author": "Julie Charlot", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-18-19/students/school-camp-us", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/2e299908b49c4e200c2ad07d03e9f9cd.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1819-school-camp-us.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tAs architects, we design the city of tomorrow. We must therefore always be critical not only of the places around us but also of our society, our economy and the viability of what we know today. We must be able to imagine the space that will best accommodate tomorrow’s life and allow us to move forward. In the face of the economic crisis, the demographic explosion, global warming and the incessant expansion of cities, we must review our way of life. Of course, there is not only a purely educational and social aspect behind this, but also a spatial one.
\nOne answer was unanimously agreed: we must share space in order to use less per inhabitant but maintain a quality of life. If the answer seems obvious, putting it in place is another matter. Individualism has grown continuously in recent decades. We no longer imagine losing our privacy, sharing our private space or wasting time. Our company always pushes us to develop ourselves personally, self-confidence is a concept put at the forefront. Technology is always evolving to save us time. The car, washing machine or dishwasher saved the housewife time and allowed her to go to work.\nToday we are told to share space, cars, take the bus or the subway and trade the supermarket which gathers all our needs in the same place for small local shops.But how can we imagine, realistically doing all this by continuing our lives and jobs, picking up children from school to take them to extracurricular activities and then going home to cook while stopping to buy food at the store?
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAn answer appeared, sharing place. Unfortunately, this answer is far from seducing everyone. After talking a lot of time about that with people, a minority of people seem to feel capable or simply want to be part of such a habitat. The idea looks nice but the reality is still scary for them. When we look at these projects, many have difficulty functioning because of disagreements between the inhabitants.
\nSo what can we practically propose as an architect and urban planner today?\nIn order, to try, to answer this question it is important for me to make the link between the commons and the shape of the space to understand their interactions.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "As architects, we design the city of tomorrow. We must therefore always be critical not only of the places around us but also of our society, our economy and the viability of what we know today. We must be able to imagine the space that will best accommodate tomorrow’s life and allow us to move forward. In the face of the economic crisis, the demographic explosion, global warming and the incessant expansion of cities, we must review our way of life. Of course, there is not only a purely educational and social aspect behind this, but also a spatial one. \nOne answer was unanimously agreed: we must share space in order to use less per inhabitant but maintain a quality of life. If the answer seems obvious, putting it in place is another matter. Individualism has grown continuously in recent decades. We no longer imagine losing our privacy, sharing our private space or wasting time. Our company always pushes us to develop ourselves personally, self-confidence is a concept put at the forefront. Technology is always evolving to save us time. The car, washing machine or dishwasher saved the housewife time and allowed her to go to work.\nToday we are told to share space, cars, take the bus or the subway and trade the supermarket which gathers all our needs in the same place for small local shops.But how can we imagine, realistically doing all this by continuing our lives and jobs, picking up children from school to take them to extracurricular activities and then going home to cook while stopping to buy food at the store?\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAn answer appeared, sharing place. Unfortunately, this answer is far from seducing everyone. After talking a lot of time about that with people, a minority of people seem to feel capable or simply want to be part of such a habitat. The idea looks nice but the reality is still scary for them. When we look at these projects, many have difficulty functioning because of disagreements between the inhabitants.\nSo what can we practically propose as an architect and urban planner today?\nIn order, to try, to answer this question it is important for me to make the link between the commons and the shape of the space to understand their interactions.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/0ec1440ef19a65d9d8b0fc840b1fb690.png", "caption": "Section", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/0ec1440ef19a65d9d8b0fc840b1fb690.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/2a3c828f3cf3-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/2a3c828f3cf3-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/216801bbd4f5e3e87606a7fd908ff62d.png", "caption": "Axonometric Drawing: Plans", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/216801bbd4f5e3e87606a7fd908ff62d.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/a160f7785050-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/a160f7785050-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/b4b40c0abb080235b3d00c4e42223f2b.png", "caption": "Section", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/b4b40c0abb080235b3d00c4e42223f2b.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/797e1e3981e0-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/797e1e3981e0-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/2e299908b49c4e200c2ad07d03e9f9cd.png", "caption": "Axonometric Drawing: Site", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/2e299908b49c4e200c2ad07d03e9f9cd.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/47d5ab0e21d5-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/47d5ab0e21d5-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/dfcc4ff63587c1b55b861342a2c52dfc.png", "caption": "Axonometric Drawing: Neighborhood", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/dfcc4ff63587c1b55b861342a2c52dfc.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/49512c27ff73-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/49512c27ff73-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/6f20b01cdb77-display.webp" }, { "id": "come-on-tools", "edition": "commons-1819", "year": "2018–2019", "type": "Master design studio", "title": "Come-on tools Activating common spaces in underused public areas through a toolbox", "author": "François Maindiaux", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-18-19/students/come-on-tools", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/8a944d86467433223c63432bbb209a54.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1819-come-on-tools.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tDuring the past decades, European cities have been continuously evolving due to the many factors influencing the urban entity. Through deindustrialization, migrations, globalization or climate change, the cities changed socially, spatially, economically, culturally, ecologically and architecturally (Madanipour & Knierbein & Degros, 2014). Public spaces always existed as a key component of any built area. They participate in the whole urban picture and experience. However, as these spaces were obviously controlled and managed by the government, thus meaning the politico-economic context, they became a target and a topic for social urban movement. As one of the major tendency that rose, lies the concept of commons, illustrated by “the civil distrust of any form of institutional government and the rejection of deep structural categories embodied in the dualities of state/market, public/private” (Stavrides, 2015). In this context, the commons movement grew, mostly because of the urban society’s interest and desire of action for public space, to propose and alternative and contrasting solution to the current approach led by governements or institutions. The commons movement not only exists in terms of resources, but also as “a process and a practice: the practice of commoning” (Stavrides, 2015).
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tCommon spaces started to emerge in developed cities around the world, as a way of using and sharing urban spaces. Various communities appeared, and with them values, ideas, concepts or even struggles regarding their urban experience. In the same aspect, the reasons and claims of the different communities became diversified over time. The complexity of each initiative and the spatial transformation that follows induces a variety of rules, protocols or method that can be observed. General rules are somehow delicate to extract from the different cases studied. However, in most common spaces lies a key component which is most of the time illustrated by devices or equipment. A common garden will be dealing with plant pots, vegetable garden etc, while other spaces could be integrating wood structure, table, chairs, bicycles, and other (almost unlimited) possibilities. These resources are the most visible part of the system, because it can be what composes the urban space that is used, but also the structure supporting any action of the community. In term of architecture, what we see when looking at common spaces is the design, the spatial planning or construction displayed.
\nThis particular aspect of the topic caught my interest, because of the capacity it has to play a role in the improvement of urban common spaces. Although the space and possibilities for commons are not rare in most develop cities, the society’s knowledge and potential is restricted.
\nReferences
\nStavrides, S. (2015). Common Space as Threshold Space: Urban Commoning in Struggles to Re-appropriate Public Space. FOOTPRINT, , 9-19. doi:10.7480/footprint.9.1.896
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "During the past decades, European cities have been continuously evolving due to the many factors influencing the urban entity. Through deindustrialization, migrations, globalization or climate change, the cities changed socially, spatially, economically, culturally, ecologically and architecturally (Madanipour & Knierbein & Degros, 2014). Public spaces always existed as a key component of any built area. They participate in the whole urban picture and experience. However, as these spaces were obviously controlled and managed by the government, thus meaning the politico-economic context, they became a target and a topic for social urban movement. As one of the major tendency that rose, lies the concept of commons, illustrated by “the civil distrust of any form of institutional government and the rejection of deep structural categories embodied in the dualities of state/market, public/private” (Stavrides, 2015). In this context, the commons movement grew, mostly because of the urban society’s interest and desire of action for public space, to propose and alternative and contrasting solution to the current approach led by governements or institutions. The commons movement not only exists in terms of resources, but also as “a process and a practice: the practice of commoning” (Stavrides, 2015).\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tCommon spaces started to emerge in developed cities around the world, as a way of using and sharing urban spaces. Various communities appeared, and with them values, ideas, concepts or even struggles regarding their urban experience. In the same aspect, the reasons and claims of the different communities became diversified over time. The complexity of each initiative and the spatial transformation that follows induces a variety of rules, protocols or method that can be observed. General rules are somehow delicate to extract from the different cases studied. However, in most common spaces lies a key component which is most of the time illustrated by devices or equipment. A common garden will be dealing with plant pots, vegetable garden etc, while other spaces could be integrating wood structure, table, chairs, bicycles, and other (almost unlimited) possibilities. These resources are the most visible part of the system, because it can be what composes the urban space that is used, but also the structure supporting any action of the community. In term of architecture, what we see when looking at common spaces is the design, the spatial planning or construction displayed.\nThis particular aspect of the topic caught my interest, because of the capacity it has to play a role in the improvement of urban common spaces. Although the space and possibilities for commons are not rare in most develop cities, the society’s knowledge and potential is restricted. \nReferences \nStavrides, S. (2015). Common Space as Threshold Space: Urban Commoning in Struggles to Re-appropriate Public Space. FOOTPRINT, , 9-19. doi:10.7480/footprint.9.1.896", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/8a944d86467433223c63432bbb209a54.png", "caption": "Axonometric Drawing: Phase 1", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/8a944d86467433223c63432bbb209a54.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/7b564053d861-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/7b564053d861-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/9757541e728d5fd7e63a5dab7e893750.png", "caption": "Section: Phase 1", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/9757541e728d5fd7e63a5dab7e893750.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/0a54e9e75182-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/0a54e9e75182-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/21f62f13f7b56e622cd78f46f3bd386d.png", "caption": "Organisational diagram", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/21f62f13f7b56e622cd78f46f3bd386d.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/c0abf0b71aa0-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/c0abf0b71aa0-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/5d8cecb881b09e2ab5ab837db3706e57.png", "caption": "Diagram: Layers", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/5d8cecb881b09e2ab5ab837db3706e57.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/1f531a912efc-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/1f531a912efc-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/56929e5de108-display.webp" }, { "id": "the-canal-as-commons", "edition": "commons-1819", "year": "2018–2019", "type": "Master design studio", "title": "The Canal as commons Civil participation and resisting by inhabiting against gentrification", "author": "Isabelle Tjampens", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-18-19/students/the-canal-as-commons", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/d820a056f5a2cde6ab68bf96e6d261c8.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1819-the-canal-as-commons.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tThis thesis attempts to provide a real response to the needs of the inhabitants through an architectural and\nurban planning project. In particular, by developing a network analysis to develop strategies to mitigate\ngentrification.
\nOne of the main strategies is to improve the public space in order to develop an inclusive city where the public realm is an open and flexible system, and which is an interface for superdiversity and biodiversity.\nPublic spaces are transformed into living spaces and no longer places of transit. Pedestrians and inhabitants become the priority users. In addition, the landscape is redesigned with time boundaries in mind with full time and temporary occupation of water and banks. To establish a multimodal public space that secures pedestrians from traffic and transforms public space into a living and productive place, it is first necessary to determine which are the essential axes of car traffic that must be preserved. They are shown in the following diagram in black. All the other streets in Molenbeek and in the city centre can therefore be potentially verdurized and completely pedestrianized. An enormous amount of space is freed up, and can be appropriated by the inhabitants and transformed according to their needs. Each street could be considered as a separate commons project whose commoners would be the inhabitants of the street.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tBy massively verdurising the public space, the proportion of permeable and impermeable space is rebalanced. It encourages water infiltration and avoid saturation of the sewers, which leads to pollution of the Canal and the Senne. Plants improve the quality of the air, the soil and the Canal water. The Canal in its entire length between Porte de Ninove and Sainctelette is conceived as a green corridor. This continuous green space connects the two future parks on the outskirts.
\nA third main objective in this project is the creation of new paths allowing the crossing of the Canal and connecting the city centre with Molenbeek. New bridges would be developed and would only be open to pedestrians, cyclists and other form of active mobility. By rethinking and critically challenging the existing borders and edges in the light of existing social realities and theories, the Canal is transformed into an open, productive and multimodal space by re-balancing the public space between the users.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "This thesis attempts to provide a real response to the needs of the inhabitants through an architectural and\nurban planning project. In particular, by developing a network analysis to develop strategies to mitigate\ngentrification.\nOne of the main strategies is to improve the public space in order to develop an inclusive city where the public realm is an open and flexible system, and which is an interface for superdiversity and biodiversity.\nPublic spaces are transformed into living spaces and no longer places of transit. Pedestrians and inhabitants become the priority users. In addition, the landscape is redesigned with time boundaries in mind with full time and temporary occupation of water and banks. To establish a multimodal public space that secures pedestrians from traffic and transforms public space into a living and productive place, it is first necessary to determine which are the essential axes of car traffic that must be preserved. They are shown in the following diagram in black. All the other streets in Molenbeek and in the city centre can therefore be potentially verdurized and completely pedestrianized. An enormous amount of space is freed up, and can be appropriated by the inhabitants and transformed according to their needs. Each street could be considered as a separate commons project whose commoners would be the inhabitants of the street.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tBy massively verdurising the public space, the proportion of permeable and impermeable space is rebalanced. It encourages water infiltration and avoid saturation of the sewers, which leads to pollution of the Canal and the Senne. Plants improve the quality of the air, the soil and the Canal water. The Canal in its entire length between Porte de Ninove and Sainctelette is conceived as a green corridor. This continuous green space connects the two future parks on the outskirts.\nA third main objective in this project is the creation of new paths allowing the crossing of the Canal and connecting the city centre with Molenbeek. New bridges would be developed and would only be open to pedestrians, cyclists and other form of active mobility. By rethinking and critically challenging the existing borders and edges in the light of existing social realities and theories, the Canal is transformed into an open, productive and multimodal space by re-balancing the public space between the users.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/d820a056f5a2cde6ab68bf96e6d261c8.png", "caption": "Axonometric Drawing: Neighborhood", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/d820a056f5a2cde6ab68bf96e6d261c8.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/9f7c27ca54b6-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/9f7c27ca54b6-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/5ffca5649bce353090bf16c1403317f5.png", "caption": "Axonometric Drawing: Diagram", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/5ffca5649bce353090bf16c1403317f5.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/cbfdaea07f36-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/cbfdaea07f36-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/11beca5a18846a3d926a5562bc379a7f.png", "caption": "Long Section", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/11beca5a18846a3d926a5562bc379a7f.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/9f242dbddcdc-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/9f242dbddcdc-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/32f364395088-display.webp" }, { "id": "rethinking-north", "edition": "commons-1920", "year": "2019–2020", "type": "Master dissertation studio", "title": "Rethinking North Quarter as a Socio-Spatial Experiment on Transitioning Towards Postcapital Future", "author": "Vilius Balčiūnas", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-19-20/students/rethinking-north", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/10f19475f106f008d9d4daff9578bcfa.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1920-rethinking-north.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tWe are living in a time of a rising potential for radical political, social and economic shifts. Natural and man-made catastrophes are inciting eruptions of protests, strikes, resistances. Deterioration of Earth’s climate is taking youth to the streets. Political climate seems to be lingering in a territory of the radical right and kakistocracy, while the left is stagnating in bureaucratic apparatuses or falling back to “folk-political”1 (Srnicek, N., Williams, A., 2015) actions. Meanwhile, technological advancements and rapid speeds of capitalism are creating such complexities that the systems that are being put in place and into action are becoming ungraspable. Accidental megastructures, that are beyond current society’s capabilities to comprehend, are emerging. All these developments in our current situation are creating conditions for a reaction from the population and might be indicating a certain swing towards a potential change in political, technological, social, economic and ecological climates. What does the future hold for us? Or from a more visual speculative perspective, what could the future look like?
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tPopular media, for the past decades, has been riddled with dystopian imaginaries of the future. Apocalyptic scenarios, the rise of inequalities, severe class separations have become a leitmotif of fiction. And to no surprise. Current narratives of reality are plagued by inequality, uncertainty, and fear of what is to come. The wage gap is on the rise, more and more people are living salary to salary without any fallback structure for unexpected circumstances. In the meanwhile, the one-percenters are continuing to break the records of accumulated wealth seemingly every year. Capitalism has enabled this disproportionate distribution of wealth. And no matter how loud the voices of the majority are crying for help and shouting for change, the disparity continues. As Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams have written: “Neoliberalism has held sway for decades, and social democracy exists largely as an object of nostalgia. As crises gather force and speed, politics withers and retreats. In this paralysis of the political imaginary, the future has been cancelled.”(Srnicek, N., Williams, A., 2015)
\nFurthermore, capitalism has alienated those voices and reduced their ability to find common grounds. So it really is not surprising that the imaginations of alternatives and better futures have been forgotten. Complexity has made the picture of today and even more the future foggy and unclear, capitalism and neoliberalism have disabled the collective imagination of the many, and urgency narratives, such as anthropocene and capitalocene, have populated our thoughts. Could we tackle these issues and resume the radical imaginations of the future? I would argue that we have to because otherwise, the other option is to remain in the dystopian imaginaries of uncertain futures. And thus, the three aforementioned issues are the core motivations for this project.
\nNotes
\n1 Folk-political actions are generally reactionary in nature, possessing qualities of temporal immediacy, preferring small-scale over structured approaches, usually incapable of achieving significant change.
References
\nSrnicek, N. & Williams, A. (2015). Inventing the Future. Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. Verso.
A city is a place of desire as David Harvey once wrote, “The right to the city is, therefore, far more than a right of individual or group access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to change and rein- vent the city more after our hearts’ desire.” (David Harvey 2012:4) Today’s cities are productive structures for collecting wealth and power transform- ing public spaces and resources into commodities. Privatization, commodification, and sanitization of public space in cities placed people in a pas- sive and consumption role instead of creators and participants. (Franck & Stevens, 2006).
\nThese socioeconomic and political powers are dominating our cities’ transformation as Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates in his theory of Capital, that all forms of capital are used as a tool to maintain social control constantly reproduced and maintained through architecture. Consequently, leading to the emergence of informal practices as an act of resistance in everyday life. As the public is often previewed as passive, but in fact, people are active as they pursue their desires and goals in the urban realm. They resist the predetermined political and economical forces by looking for daily life alternatives. The way they resist the dominated spaces create loose spaces. One of these loose spaces that I will base my research on is Mabru Flea Market in the city of Brussels.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tHaving said that, I will base my research on two main questions: What are the alternative approaches to the urban transformation in Mabru to address and challenge the existing social and spatial inequalities? How can the loose space be rethought as an urban commons to alter the existing modes of social, spatial, and productive interactions? Envisioning a post-industrial city beyond a place of consumption and inequality. Rethinking the existing Base-Superstructure to challenge the existing power structures to stop reproducing the existing inequalities in our cities.
\nOver the past decades, the renewal of the European cities along with the rapid growth of services, globalized free market, high tech industries, and knowledge-based economics have driven the industry outside the city. Turning the city into a place of consumption instead of production.
\nSince the city itself and its citizens resist the recurrent neoliberal system in diverse ways. They express their dissatisfaction through transgressive acts that range From obvious forms of mass protests (ex. Protests in Lebanon, Chile, Ecuador, or boycotts) to more subtle forms (ex. Graffiti, dance, or art). Likewise, one form of resisting the dominant social order of global capitalism is organizing a common life by people themselves. (Stavrides, 2016)
\nThus, the commons is, “a social system that refers to resources managed and shared according to the rules and the norms defined by the productive community.” (As defined by Kostakis & Drechsler, 2018). As such, the commons architecture can be used as a tool to reinvent shared spaces and inhabit diverse practices based on cooperation and solidarity. Accordingly, envisioning loose spaces at Brussels Flea Market space as a common resource that supports and gives space to diverse kinds of economies, jobs, and social activities.
\nReferences
\nFranck, K., & Stevens, Quentin. (2006). Loose space: Possibility and diversity in urban life. London: Routledge.
\nHarvey, D. (2012). Rebel cities: From the right to the city to the urban revolution. London: Verso.
\nStavrides, S. (2016). Common space: The city as commons (In com- mon). London: Zed Books.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "A city is a place of desire as David Harvey once wrote, “The right to the city is, therefore, far more than a right of individual or group access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to change and rein- vent the city more after our hearts’ desire.” (David Harvey 2012:4) Today’s cities are productive structures for collecting wealth and power transform- ing public spaces and resources into commodities. Privatization, commodification, and sanitization of public space in cities placed people in a pas- sive and consumption role instead of creators and participants. (Franck & Stevens, 2006).\nThese socioeconomic and political powers are dominating our cities’ transformation as Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates in his theory of Capital, that all forms of capital are used as a tool to maintain social control constantly reproduced and maintained through architecture. Consequently, leading to the emergence of informal practices as an act of resistance in everyday life. As the public is often previewed as passive, but in fact, people are active as they pursue their desires and goals in the urban realm. They resist the predetermined political and economical forces by looking for daily life alternatives. The way they resist the dominated spaces create loose spaces. One of these loose spaces that I will base my research on is Mabru Flea Market in the city of Brussels.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tHaving said that, I will base my research on two main questions: What are the alternative approaches to the urban transformation in Mabru to address and challenge the existing social and spatial inequalities? How can the loose space be rethought as an urban commons to alter the existing modes of social, spatial, and productive interactions? Envisioning a post-industrial city beyond a place of consumption and inequality. Rethinking the existing Base-Superstructure to challenge the existing power structures to stop reproducing the existing inequalities in our cities.\nOver the past decades, the renewal of the European cities along with the rapid growth of services, globalized free market, high tech industries, and knowledge-based economics have driven the industry outside the city. Turning the city into a place of consumption instead of production.\nSince the city itself and its citizens resist the recurrent neoliberal system in diverse ways. They express their dissatisfaction through transgressive acts that range From obvious forms of mass protests (ex. Protests in Lebanon, Chile, Ecuador, or boycotts) to more subtle forms (ex. Graffiti, dance, or art). Likewise, one form of resisting the dominant social order of global capitalism is organizing a common life by people themselves. (Stavrides, 2016)\nThus, the commons is, “a social system that refers to resources managed and shared according to the rules and the norms defined by the productive community.” (As defined by Kostakis & Drechsler, 2018). As such, the commons architecture can be used as a tool to reinvent shared spaces and inhabit diverse practices based on cooperation and solidarity. Accordingly, envisioning loose spaces at Brussels Flea Market space as a common resource that supports and gives space to diverse kinds of economies, jobs, and social activities.\nReferences \nFranck, K., & Stevens, Quentin. (2006). Loose space: Possibility and diversity in urban life. London: Routledge.\nHarvey, D. (2012). Rebel cities: From the right to the city to the urban revolution. London: Verso.\nStavrides, S. (2016). Common space: The city as commons (In com- mon). London: Zed Books.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/01/66023f8595dfa879b9a3e5f31f7641cb.jpg", "caption": "Intervening in the Second Phase of Schaarbeek Formation", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/01/66023f8595dfa879b9a3e5f31f7641cb.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/7668759d8fa4-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/7668759d8fa4-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/22782b05fef500f0c922d4f033523609.png", "caption": "Urban Strategy", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/22782b05fef500f0c922d4f033523609.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/a5f2df7c7d2b-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/a5f2df7c7d2b-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/96fdfe238b77d1dcf3143bce338f3d3f.png", "caption": "Render- Bird view ", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/96fdfe238b77d1dcf3143bce338f3d3f.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/8cff60859a95-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/8cff60859a95-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/e99a4d85b24e7d81833a31f320154479.png", "caption": "Render- Bird view ", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/e99a4d85b24e7d81833a31f320154479.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/1304e1cf3d49-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/1304e1cf3d49-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/df24b2584b8d255a59d9a0c378a875d9.png", "caption": "Render- Eye view ", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/df24b2584b8d255a59d9a0c378a875d9.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/a454e6dca3bb-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/a454e6dca3bb-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/8b21c8bd397b9da88dc1b24a2cc38dcc.png", "caption": "Render - Eye view", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/8b21c8bd397b9da88dc1b24a2cc38dcc.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/244746d245de-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/244746d245de-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/d51ca9976d75-display.webp" }, { "id": "lost-infrastructure-space", "edition": "commons-1920", "year": "2019–2020", "type": "Master dissertation studio", "title": "Lost infrastructure space as a productive green commons", "author": "Sarah Thorisaen", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-19-20/students/lost-infrastructure-space", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/fbb0fce226bfc461d7812fe912b2228a.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1920-lost-infrastructure-space.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tBrussels, the capital of Belgium cannot exist without its many urban infrastructures. But what are urban infrastructures exactly and where does the term ‘infrastructure’ come from? Infrastructure is a relatively new word and can be described as ‘the basic facilities, services and installations that a community, a society or a city needs to function’; such as transportation, communication, energy, water and public institutions. The term infrastructure has morphed from an obscure appellation in the French railway, to a military expression, to a current collective concept with a social and economic meaning that has entered everyday language (Ruechardt, 2018).
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAlthough the term infrastructure is new, the facilities, institutions and services it represents are as old as society itself. During history, infrastructure has always played a key role in the founding, maintaining and reformatting of our cities, still the infrastructural topic is rarely discussed inside architecture or urban planning. Therefore the critically rethinking of infrastructure is fundamental, not only for the progress of our cities but also for a better welfare. So this chapter concludes that infrastructure has to become a central concept in architecture and urbanism. How can we as designers and researchers use infrastructure not only as an architectural tool but also as an urban tool?
\nReferences
\nRuechardt, C. (2018). EU State Aid Control of Infrastruc- ture Funding. The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International B.V.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "Brussels, the capital of Belgium cannot exist without its many urban infrastructures. But what are urban infrastructures exactly and where does the term ‘infrastructure’ come from? Infrastructure is a relatively new word and can be described as ‘the basic facilities, services and installations that a community, a society or a city needs to function’; such as transportation, communication, energy, water and public institutions. The term infrastructure has morphed from an obscure appellation in the French railway, to a military expression, to a current collective concept with a social and economic meaning that has entered everyday language (Ruechardt, 2018).\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAlthough the term infrastructure is new, the facilities, institutions and services it represents are as old as society itself. During history, infrastructure has always played a key role in the founding, maintaining and reformatting of our cities, still the infrastructural topic is rarely discussed inside architecture or urban planning. Therefore the critically rethinking of infrastructure is fundamental, not only for the progress of our cities but also for a better welfare. So this chapter concludes that infrastructure has to become a central concept in architecture and urbanism. How can we as designers and researchers use infrastructure not only as an architectural tool but also as an urban tool?\nReferences \nRuechardt, C. (2018). EU State Aid Control of Infrastruc- ture Funding. The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International B.V.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/aa9cf080323c124c1544472632b7a0eb.jpg", "caption": "Architectural intervention-Ground floor plan", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/aa9cf080323c124c1544472632b7a0eb.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/884bc89f2ea0-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/884bc89f2ea0-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/47b5d949c4b7b8b1184b303ae88d8198.jpg", "caption": "Architectural intervention-First floor plan", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/47b5d949c4b7b8b1184b303ae88d8198.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/e54ec19794cf-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/e54ec19794cf-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/22178b575100d573dde4a95fd8df8d87.jpg", "caption": "Architectural intervention-Second floor plan", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/22178b575100d573dde4a95fd8df8d87.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/9c1c79e86962-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/9c1c79e86962-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/8630353ae71305a6613de7097889d134.jpg", "caption": "The structural section A-A' of the productive green structure", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/8630353ae71305a6613de7097889d134.jpg", "local_path": "assets/commons/727a8f68ec42-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/727a8f68ec42-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/fbb0fce226bfc461d7812fe912b2228a.png", "caption": "Collage: farming second floor", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/fbb0fce226bfc461d7812fe912b2228a.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/68d9e0f090ef-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/68d9e0f090ef-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/9a9f5f4a976aca7b87da352bca3b0b78.png", "caption": "The urban section A - A’ of the pilot project and its surroundings", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/9a9f5f4a976aca7b87da352bca3b0b78.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/2a78c12a7616-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/2a78c12a7616-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/e7739340875c-display.webp" }, { "id": "queer-commons", "edition": "commons-1920", "year": "2019–2020", "type": "Master dissertation studio", "title": "Queer Commons", "author": "Alexander Auris", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-19-20/students/queer-commons", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/7fad3347f0dc624eb96687afb87128ff.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1920-queer-commons.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tSexuality is a condition of the human existence. Gender and sexuality is performative as it is de- fined by the performances associated with masculinity and femininity (Butler, 1990). It is also fluid as we move from performances. These performances are the way we construct ourselves in the world. The way we express, talk, dress, the objects that we accumulate, and other performances define us in different ways: racially, ethnically, economically and even sexually (Betsky, 1996).
\nIn modern history, heterosexuality has been the norm, architecture has been designed around this illusion/constriction. The images of the male, the hunter that leaves the cave in order to bring provisions for the family and the female, the one that stays inside taking care of the offspring had been replaced for the representation of the man working in a high rise building and women enjoying her new appliances in the kitchen during the first half of 20th century. This relation/opposition between the outside and the inside (public-private) the male and female as if only those sides/ umbral/images are the end and beginning of gender and sexual expressions, also need aesthetic and programmatic artefacts in order to enhance the difference: a style, a space, objects, etc. (Betsky, 1996). It is important to look at these representations because these make us recognize, feel included or question our belonging. These were not only portraits of reality but were aspirational representations of the roles people should play.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tBehind this reigning image of heterosexuality, there has been lying, waiting, repressed another way, a different, an alternative, one that nowadays could seem to be more accepted. One that has not conformed to the restrictions of heteronormativity. “Present inside the house and outside in the city” (Betsky, 1996), a Queer way. This way has waited to be out, unrepressed and open. It is only now that maybe queer people are more open than ever, this is a response of the time, a moment in the progression of society. To come out has being a conscious decision a political action as a need of representativity.
\nQueer people, we are individuals with something in common. Can this common aspect of ourselves be related to architecture? And can this aspect create a sense of community? Being queer is not a condition of a place, it is a condition of human existence. It is intersectional. How can sexuality, as a reflection, as a subversive act, as a political attitude and as a human condition and need, makes us create the sense of place and belonging? This research analyses three spheres: the affective, the politic and the XXXXX in relation to the sense of belonging and constructing a common space.
\nReferences
\nButler, J. (1999). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge\nBetsky, A. (1997). Queer space : Architecture and same-sex desire. New York (N.Y.): Morrow.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "Sexuality is a condition of the human existence. Gender and sexuality is performative as it is de- fined by the performances associated with masculinity and femininity (Butler, 1990). It is also fluid as we move from performances. These performances are the way we construct ourselves in the world. The way we express, talk, dress, the objects that we accumulate, and other performances define us in different ways: racially, ethnically, economically and even sexually (Betsky, 1996).\nIn modern history, heterosexuality has been the norm, architecture has been designed around this illusion/constriction. The images of the male, the hunter that leaves the cave in order to bring provisions for the family and the female, the one that stays inside taking care of the offspring had been replaced for the representation of the man working in a high rise building and women enjoying her new appliances in the kitchen during the first half of 20th century. This relation/opposition between the outside and the inside (public-private) the male and female as if only those sides/ umbral/images are the end and beginning of gender and sexual expressions, also need aesthetic and programmatic artefacts in order to enhance the difference: a style, a space, objects, etc. (Betsky, 1996). It is important to look at these representations because these make us recognize, feel included or question our belonging. These were not only portraits of reality but were aspirational representations of the roles people should play.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tBehind this reigning image of heterosexuality, there has been lying, waiting, repressed another way, a different, an alternative, one that nowadays could seem to be more accepted. One that has not conformed to the restrictions of heteronormativity. “Present inside the house and outside in the city” (Betsky, 1996), a Queer way. This way has waited to be out, unrepressed and open. It is only now that maybe queer people are more open than ever, this is a response of the time, a moment in the progression of society. To come out has being a conscious decision a political action as a need of representativity.\nQueer people, we are individuals with something in common. Can this common aspect of ourselves be related to architecture? And can this aspect create a sense of community? Being queer is not a condition of a place, it is a condition of human existence. It is intersectional. How can sexuality, as a reflection, as a subversive act, as a political attitude and as a human condition and need, makes us create the sense of place and belonging? This research analyses three spheres: the affective, the politic and the XXXXX in relation to the sense of belonging and constructing a common space.\nReferences \nButler, J. (1999). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge\nBetsky, A. (1997). Queer space : Architecture and same-sex desire. New York (N.Y.): Morrow.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/786ca552c4db4d862f533c0192a7b2ae.png", "caption": "Collage: Ground floor", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/786ca552c4db4d862f533c0192a7b2ae.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/e650c711b35c-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/e650c711b35c-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/5a968f698fa86b4ebb0f9693414299d3.png", "caption": "The column: It comes from the underground and supports the suspended volumes, covered with a metal clading, not only structures but carry instalations such as air and climatizactiong VRV gas", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/5a968f698fa86b4ebb0f9693414299d3.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/cf8b3bf75d99-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/cf8b3bf75d99-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/2148889aa6f285f3f61391b53b30f6e1.png", "caption": "XXXXX Sphere, Underground Plan", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/2148889aa6f285f3f61391b53b30f6e1.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/a9dc414d63ce-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/a9dc414d63ce-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/7fad3347f0dc624eb96687afb87128ff.png", "caption": "XXXXX Sphere: Shower for 10", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/7fad3347f0dc624eb96687afb87128ff.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/011cfa0ca883-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/011cfa0ca883-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/3b4475f31bd6426cbc6719fd27afde23.png", "caption": "XXXXX Sphere, A Party", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/3b4475f31bd6426cbc6719fd27afde23.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/4e9f499e14f4-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/4e9f499e14f4-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/98c7d4bb9b9a1ba55f529eecc806994c.png", "caption": "Affective Sphere A space of the representations", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/98c7d4bb9b9a1ba55f529eecc806994c.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/2c8d137fd575-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/2c8d137fd575-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/5b6bdf9d0279-display.webp" }, { "id": "nomadic-radio", "edition": "commons-1920", "year": "2019–2020", "type": "Master dissertation studio", "title": "Nomadic Radio", "author": "Zuzana Jurčišinová", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-19-20/students/nomadic-radio", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/8d8492bc334173f9a94a0b60b9a53577.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1920-nomadic-radio.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tBrussels is one of the most international cities, due to the highest percentage of residents from foreign origins (based on World Migration Report issued in 2015) after Dubai. Huge amounts of expats consider it as their home. Approximately 30% of the population of the Brussles Capital Region are non-belgian citizens, and more then half of resi- dents have foreign roots. As the self-proclaimed ‘Heart of Europe’ – a center of global political compromise, this bilingual capital mostly remains Bruxelles, a small, chaotic French-speaking city in western Europe. Unfortunately in reality, Brussels is city with an unintelligible bureaucracy, unclear vision of the future, a failed mobility-plan, a closed mind towards international opportunities and most of all divided communities. It appears that one of the very reason of non-consistent society is official bilingualism, which causes huge range of media followed among Brussel’s communities.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThere are three main groups of media followed according to language. First and the biggest group involves media produced in french language, second group is followed by flemish speaking population and third group consist of media produced in other languages - mostly only broadcasted from their country of origin. French and Flemish media are produced in Belgium and so inform about situation in country and foreign issues from its perspective. This leads to condition that Brussels inhabitans of no knowledge of french and/or flemish language can not simply understand what is ‘going on’ in the country/city they live in. Following foreign media creates a ‘life-in-bubble’ effect and huge polarization among Brussels population. In this case media are one of the reason of polarisation, but on the other hand they are great opportunity in problem solving.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "Brussels is one of the most international cities, due to the highest percentage of residents from foreign origins (based on World Migration Report issued in 2015) after Dubai. Huge amounts of expats consider it as their home. Approximately 30% of the population of the Brussles Capital Region are non-belgian citizens, and more then half of resi- dents have foreign roots. As the self-proclaimed ‘Heart of Europe’ – a center of global political compromise, this bilingual capital mostly remains Bruxelles, a small, chaotic French-speaking city in western Europe. Unfortunately in reality, Brussels is city with an unintelligible bureaucracy, unclear vision of the future, a failed mobility-plan, a closed mind towards international opportunities and most of all divided communities. It appears that one of the very reason of non-consistent society is official bilingualism, which causes huge range of media followed among Brussel’s communities. \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThere are three main groups of media followed according to language. First and the biggest group involves media produced in french language, second group is followed by flemish speaking population and third group consist of media produced in other languages - mostly only broadcasted from their country of origin. French and Flemish media are produced in Belgium and so inform about situation in country and foreign issues from its perspective. This leads to condition that Brussels inhabitans of no knowledge of french and/or flemish language can not simply understand what is ‘going on’ in the country/city they live in. Following foreign media creates a ‘life-in-bubble’ effect and huge polarization among Brussels population. In this case media are one of the reason of polarisation, but on the other hand they are great opportunity in problem solving.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/1137ed0cd47f8ee3487a75b2f69649a3.png", "caption": "Architectural Intervention: Forum", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/1137ed0cd47f8ee3487a75b2f69649a3.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/2d6e9bac76ef-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/2d6e9bac76ef-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/eb1771481dbf6320d1a1c997088126fb.png", "caption": "Architectural Intervention: Nomadic spa, Nomadic capsule living", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/eb1771481dbf6320d1a1c997088126fb.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/205939d5abca-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/205939d5abca-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/175a249c73868e3c21b7cd55e0a21b89.png", "caption": "Architectural Intervention: Inclusion structure", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/175a249c73868e3c21b7cd55e0a21b89.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/4c7730782ed8-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/4c7730782ed8-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/8d8492bc334173f9a94a0b60b9a53577.png", "caption": "Architectural Intervention: Nomadic radio", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/8d8492bc334173f9a94a0b60b9a53577.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/31f19b1b2aad-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/31f19b1b2aad-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/733825bea18d-display.webp" }, { "id": "schachtgebouw-as-a-commons", "edition": "commons-1920", "year": "2019–2020", "type": "Master dissertation studio", "title": "Schachtgebouw as a commons", "author": "Melisa Ince", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-19-20/students/schachtgebouw-as-a-commons", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/2082d9d4bb6a341d8dda282661bb4c1c.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1920-schachtgebouw-as-a-commons.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tWith this project I wanted to strive for multiple use of space, for transcending the existing boundaries and finding interfaces between science, landscape, heritage and super diversity.
\nThis project can be scaled up on this site, as there are still a few barely used heritage buildings left that are today only being used for guided tours.
\nThis project is important, as it can be used as a framework for reactiving heritage buildings for more social inclusivity for the upcoming generations.
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tFor instance the other former mining sites in Genk, could also use a project like this that is based on a commons approach. This project could be literally implemented for example on the former mining site of Winterslag, that is now C-mine.
\nNot only for former mining sites but also for other brownfield redevelopment projects this project can be used as a reference.
\nIt can also be used as an inspiration for more social inclusivity on white collared business sites.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "With this project I wanted to strive for multiple use of space, for transcending the existing boundaries and finding interfaces between science, landscape, heritage and super diversity. \nThis project can be scaled up on this site, as there are still a few barely used heritage buildings left that are today only being used for guided tours. \nThis project is important, as it can be used as a framework for reactiving heritage buildings for more social inclusivity for the upcoming generations.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tFor instance the other former mining sites in Genk, could also use a project like this that is based on a commons approach. This project could be literally implemented for example on the former mining site of Winterslag, that is now C-mine.\nNot only for former mining sites but also for other brownfield redevelopment projects this project can be used as a reference.\nIt can also be used as an inspiration for more social inclusivity on white collared business sites.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/2d48b5c4ff1676e31c3c52f9c6343d71.png", "caption": "Architectural Intervention: Mining Heritage", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/2d48b5c4ff1676e31c3c52f9c6343d71.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/96c8aafbc3d2-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/96c8aafbc3d2-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/2082d9d4bb6a341d8dda282661bb4c1c.png", "caption": "Storytelling", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/2082d9d4bb6a341d8dda282661bb4c1c.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/4374aa3b0c4f-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/4374aa3b0c4f-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/349dd51dfd14efd5d96301eff7a1603c.png", "caption": "Collage: Square", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/349dd51dfd14efd5d96301eff7a1603c.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/78625006d39e-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/78625006d39e-display.webp" } ], "thumbnail": "assets/commons/2f428ea6cd34-display.webp" }, { "id": "sonic-commons", "edition": "commons-1920", "year": "2019–2020", "type": "Master dissertation studio", "title": "Sonic Commons Empowering Marginalized Communities", "author": "Joseph Jadam", "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/studios/envisioning-the-architectures-of-commons-19-20/students/sonic-commons", "thumbnail_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/shalf/2021/03/99b33aaab8d8266380528f696e21a4f9.png", "local_page": "studios/commons-1920-sonic-commons.html", "description_html": "\n\t\t\tContemporary architecture deals primarily with how things look, how things make a user feel, etc., but what about how it sounds? Even though our ancestors (Romans, Greeks, Mayans...) have dealt with this sense as a primary factor for design, somewhere along the line we as humans have adapted to the acoustics of our natural ecosystems (soundscapes), we have readjusted to urban soundscapes, public gathering spaces and enclosed dwellings. Moreover, post-industrial revolution technology has created an abundance of noise, a polluting agent. Some artists even dub this phenomenon as the natural rhythm of the city (Fontana, Bill, 2011). During the Middle Ages, smell was the unspoken plague of cities, today it is sound (Kimmelman, 2015).
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAnd so, planners begin to think of ways to make cities more quiet and Architects how to make buildings better isolated. But is sound not an intrinsic part of the city? Are we not part of this rhythm? Don’t many of us live in them because we actually enjoy this ”natural rhythm”? Is there nothing in this that can be used to our benefit as a society?
\nIs there so much noise all around us today that we’ve become inured to our aural senses?\nIs it too optimistic to say that instead of disregarding it and trying to delete it, it can rather be transformed into a soundscape of change, transforming into a powerful tool that supports the city and its social groups.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t", "description_text": "Contemporary architecture deals primarily with how things look, how things make a user feel, etc., but what about how it sounds? Even though our ancestors (Romans, Greeks, Mayans...) have dealt with this sense as a primary factor for design, somewhere along the line we as humans have adapted to the acoustics of our natural ecosystems (soundscapes), we have readjusted to urban soundscapes, public gathering spaces and enclosed dwellings. Moreover, post-industrial revolution technology has created an abundance of noise, a polluting agent. Some artists even dub this phenomenon as the natural rhythm of the city (Fontana, Bill, 2011). During the Middle Ages, smell was the unspoken plague of cities, today it is sound (Kimmelman, 2015). \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAnd so, planners begin to think of ways to make cities more quiet and Architects how to make buildings better isolated. But is sound not an intrinsic part of the city? Are we not part of this rhythm? Don’t many of us live in them because we actually enjoy this ”natural rhythm”? Is there nothing in this that can be used to our benefit as a society? \nIs there so much noise all around us today that we’ve become inured to our aural senses?\nIs it too optimistic to say that instead of disregarding it and trying to delete it, it can rather be transformed into a soundscape of change, transforming into a powerful tool that supports the city and its social groups.", "images": [ { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/a69213f10f43d818e2bd498b51a7217d.png", "caption": "Render: Eye view", "source_thumbnail": "https://www.altshift.brussels/cache/image/sthumb/2021/03/a69213f10f43d818e2bd498b51a7217d.png", "local_path": "assets/commons/25a135155c30-large.webp", "display_path": "assets/commons/25a135155c30-display.webp" }, { "source_url": "https://www.altshift.brussels/uploads/2021/03/99b33aaab8d8266380528f696e21a4f9.png", "caption": "Render: Bird view", "source_thumbnail": 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