The Braillard Architects Foundation and Metrolab Brussels, in collaboration with the University of Geneva and the Catholic University of Louvain – faced with the challenge of ecological transition – organised the first series of six monthly seminars aimed at exploring the new role of space transformation disciplines (architecture, town planning, landscaping).
Set up in real time between Brussels and Geneva by video streaming, this series of seminars aims to explore new critical project methods for the urbanisation of our Globe in a logic of maintaining, producing and renewing the common good.
Programme
Thursday January 25th | 16:00 – 20:00
THE ANTHROPOCENE PERSPECTIVE AS PROJECT HORIZON
- INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
Bernard Declève, architect engineer, professor in urbanism CULouvain, coordinator of the MetroLab programme in Brussels - FROM RENEWAL TO URBAN TRANSITION: THE CHALLENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Panos Mantziaras, Braillard Architects Foundation - Keynote speech
COMPETITION OF STORIES
Dominique Bourg, philosopher, professor – Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne
Thursday February 22nd | 16:00 – 20:00
- THE BRUSSELS HYPERCENTRE: FROM PEDESTRIAN AREA TO URBAN PROJECT
BSI/Brussels Center Observatory
Dr. Aniss M. Mezoued, architect urban planner, Pr. CULouvain
Jean-Philippe De Visscher, engineer architect, CULouvain - NEW MOBILITY SOLUTIONS IN THE CANTON OF GENEVA: LINES OF THOUGHT AND PROJECTS
Sylvain Ferretti, Secretary-General of the Office of Urbanism of the Geneva canton - Keynote speech
WHYNO CAR?
Paola Viganò, Architect, professor in town planning – EPFL
Thursday March 22nd | 16:00 – 20:00
- BETWEEN CITIZENS’ EXCITEMENT AND PUBLIC STRATEGY: CRITICAL VIEWS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FOOD TRANSITION IN BRUSSELS
François Lohest, political scientist, Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, ULB - METROPOLITAN AGRICULTURE AROUND LAKE GENEVA: A RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
Elena Cogato Lanza, Teaching and Research Master, Laboratory of Urbanism EPFL - Keynote speech
THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES APPROACH: A LEVER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE?
Nicolas Dendoncker, Geographer, professor in geography – University of Namur
Thursday April 19th | 16:00 – 20:00
THE WORK-TERRITORY RELATIONSHIP
- PRODUCTION IN THE CITY TO BUILD THE CITY
Benjamin Cadranel, general administrator of Citydev.Brussels - TERRITORIAL NETWORK AND THE FUTURE OF BUSINESSES
Djemâa Chraïti, Director of the Cité des Métiers du Grand Genève, Department of Public Education, Culture and Sport (DIP), Office for Guidance, Professional and Continuing Education of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. - Keynote speech
WHICH TRANSITION FOR WHICH DEVELOPMENT?
Pr. Jean-Philippe Peemans, professor emeritus of the Center for Development Studies of the Catholic University of Louvain
Thursday May 17th | 16:00 – 20:00
TRANSITION IN THE WORLD OF PLAYERS
- COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: BUILDING THE CITY ON COMMON LAND
Thomas Dawance, project coordinator in the Community Land Trust of Brussels - GENEVA AND GOVERNANCE AT A TIME OF ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION
Frédéric Josselin, Office of urbanism – Consultation and communication service, Planning, Housing and Energy Department (DALE) in the State of Geneva - Keynote speech
PLAYERS, GOVERNANCE, ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION
Rémi Baudouï, political scientist, professor – Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva
Thursday June 14th | 16:00 – 20:00
DESIGN THE TRANSITION — YEAR 1
ASSESSMENT AND PERSPECTIVES
- With:
Dominique Bourg, philosopher, professor – Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne
Benjamin Cadranel, general administrator of Citydev.Brussels
Djemâa Chraïti, Director of the Cité des Métiers du Grand Genève, Department of Public Education, Culture and Sport (DIP), Office for Guidance, Professional and Continuing Education of the Republic and Canton of Geneva
Jean-Philippe Peemans, professor emeritus of the Center for Development Studies of the Catholic University of Louvain
François Lohest, political scientist, Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, ULB Jean-Philippe De Visscher, engineer architect, CULouvain
