Gideon Boie & Lieven De Cauter The Activist City.

19:30 (doors)
20:00 book presentation, until 21:30
23:30 (bar closes)

Introduction by Nikolaus Hirsh (director Kanal Architecture).

Presentation of the book by the authors.

A talk with the authors by Nicolaus Hirsch and Veronique Patteeuw (architect - INSAPL & KU Leuven).

The Activist City highlights different forms of civic protest: political, urban and architectural activism. Political activism mostly takes place in the city; urban activism has the city as its topic. ‘Architectural activism’ sounds like a paradox as architecture is on the side of money and power and activism opposes these. But over the last years we have seen architects engaging with the skills of their discipline within urban activism and even see forms arising of what could be called ‘activist architecture’. The authors, who have been teaching and writing together for years on these topics, consider activism as an important element in bottom-up urban democracy and the struggle for a more social, just and sustainable society.

about

Gideon Boie is an architect and philosopher, teaching at the department of architecture of KU Leuven, Campus Brussels. Discursive Architecture is his latest book in English.
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Lieven De Cauter is a philosopher and art historian, who has been teaching in several institutions (P.A.R.T.S, Berlage Institute, RITCS, Department of architecture KU Leuven), and is now retired. Ending the Anthropocene is his latest book in English.
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