An Educational Experiment Obviously Hidden In-Between

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  • Dag Boutsen KU Leuven
  • Carl Bourgeois KU Leuven
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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51588/eaaeacp.6

Published

2019-08-28

Issue

2019: The Hidden School - Book of Abstracts. EAAE Annual Conference Zagreb 2019

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Presentation Abstracts

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Copyright (c) 2019 Dag Boutsen, Carl Bourgeois

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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An Educational Experiment Obviously Hidden In-Between. (2019). EAAE Annual Conference Proceedings, 36-41. https://doi.org/10.51588/eaaeacp.6

Keywords:

experimental teaching, (de-)schooling, playing field, nomadic school, shared space

Abstract

For one and a half year, we have been renting the 24th floor of the abandoned WTC1-building, a tower waiting for total restructuring financed by a Regulated Real-estate Investment Trust (BE-REIT), listed on Euronext Brussels. 1500 m² of free space. This floor is located next to the north station, which connects people between the big city and smaller ones. The North Station connects trains with trams and buses. The North Station connects fast food with a bike point. The North Station is, or was a building. Not anymore. Today, it does not imply connection, only separation, brutal transition, inhospitability, emptiness, refreshed decay.

Author Biographies

  • Dag Boutsen, KU Leuven

    Dag Boutsen, dean and Carl Bourgeois, vicedean education of the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven, are both architects. Together, they work hard on facing the crucial challenges that face schools of architecture and architects today. Especially in university contexts. They try to define what the Faculty of Architecture (°2013) is all about.

  • Carl Bourgeois, KU Leuven

    Dag Boutsen, dean and Carl Bourgeois, vicedean education of the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven, are both architects. Together, they work hard on facing the crucial challenges that face schools of architecture and architects today. Especially in university contexts. They try to define what the Faculty of Architecture (°2013) is all about.