With the exhibition “Atelier à Habiter”, Z33 addresses a theme that concerns every one of us: living and housing.
Z33: Atelier à Habiter
“Atelier à Habiter” is a studio-experiment where artists, architects and designers rethink and redefine the concept of “dwelling”, reflecting on the future of living and housing.
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- 12 December 2013
- Hasselt
All over the world we are confronted by new demographic, social, environmental, and economic challenges and the re-invention of systems. Likewise, architecture and ‘dwelling’ are also being reinvented. In “Atelier à Habiter” various artists, architects and designers rethink the concept of living and housing from several perspectives.
The exhibition aims to be an experiment-workshop in thinking about living and housing. The examples which “Atelier à Habiter” presents within the different perspectives have a common goal, but each use a different strategy. The variation in these strategies leads to questions, stimulates experience, brings matters to the fore and encourages the rethinking of the concept of living and housing.
“Atelier à Habiter”, on the one hand, acts as a workshop space in which various perspectives are juxtaposed, allowing new concepts to emerge from a variety of workshops. On the other hand, the exhibition attempts to approach the house in itself as a workshop rather than a machine à habiter (“a machine for living”).
This exhibition is pragmatic in its approach; the presented works are not utopian models for a distant future. Some have been initiated or have already been built; others present realistic concepts or thought models for tomorrow. In this sense, the exhibition acts as an awareness-raising model, which does not only deal with the subject in a critical manner, but also presents possible solutions.
“Atelier à Habiter” fits within “The Ambition of the Territory”, an explorative investigation on Flemish level into the renewal of the vision formation within Flanders’ spatial policy. The process challenges us to think about space in a radically different way. Not starting from a general perspective with univocal zonings for living, industry and nature, but from a hybrid living environment where, for instance, dwelling and working seamlessly overlap.
until March 30, 2014
Atelier à Habiter
curated by Evelien Bracke
Z33
Zuivelmarkt 33, Hasselt