MISANTHROPOZINE #4: Car Tuning for Architects w/ Pieterjan Ginckels' BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DÉRIVE
What if the tuning scene, with its rituals and lore, its heroes and hacks, is just architecture with better sound design? After a curious, critical, and collective ride through Brussels parking garages, we gather for a double dose of film and print.
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In our time, and in our city, cars are both hated and loved, booming and going extinct. While cars are constantly debated, contested, and redesigned, parking garages remain strangely invisible. Visual artist Pieterjan Ginckels invites us to explore these overlooked back rooms of urban mobility together.
Don’t miss the BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DÉRIVE, a carpool daytrip around Brussels in which you, together with the artist, will stitch together a route through the city’s network of parking garages. Together, participants will draw a map of parking garages around Brussels, from which a route will be calculated. Along the way, you will exploit a curious loophole: garage entry tickets grant a fifteen-minute window in which you can leave again without parking. These “free” moments will determine the pace and rhythm of the trip.
No car? No problem! You can join with or without one. We will share vehicles, navigate Brussels together, document these disconnected urban nodes as we go and share our soundtrack.
The BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DÉRIVE is part of an international series of journeys that ride on the tail of MISANTHROPOZINE #4: Car Tuning for Architects. The day trip concludes right here in the beurscafé, where the magazine will be launched alongside a screening of Arthur Summereder’s Motorcity and a 3D documentary that follows Pieterjan Ginckels’ TOKYO SPEED DÉRIVE.
BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DÉRIVE is co-produced by KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.
