Michael Smith Masis: Architecture as an excuse: social agency, spatial justice and regenerative design
Design and architecture serve as catalysts for agency in the natural and built environment. Architecture as an excuse begins by questioning sustainability as an unsustainable principle. It seeks to value comprehensive and sensitive thinking towards the systems in which we live, where transdisciplinary approaches are fundamental. It is in this overlap between disciplines that Spatial Justice and regenerative design serve as approach platforms to work and promote more environmentally just, regenerative environments that dignify the human condition, represented in a body of work carried out in the last 15 years.
This keynote is part of the Building Beyond Borders Symposium, two keynote speakers, one from academics and one from architectural practice, who have an extensive expertise in the given domain will highlight different perspectives on the topics raised.
Building Beyond Borders Symposium is a two-yearly event, complementing the postgraduate cycle with in-depth reflection. The symposium sets up a broad conversation and reflection on the topic and live project of its most recent postgraduate edition. In doing so, we want to build an international network of thinkers and do-ers to cast the foundations for more regenerative and distributive solutions and approaches in the building sector, both in the Global North and the Global South.
Architecture as an excuse: social agency, spatial justice and regenerative design
About Michael Smith Masis
Timing and location:
- Thursday February 6th 2025
- 09h00 - 10h30
- UHasselt Campus Old Prison, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt (Aula Roppe)
Registration
- Registration form
- For PhD students and postdocs, we would like to draw your attention to the cancellation and no-show policy of UHasselt.