Practices in Research #06 - Re-Mediating Practices
The Practices in Research journal is an initiative of In Practice, an interuniversity research group of practising architects that places architectural practice at the heart of research. In Practice explores the multiple ways in which architects can engage their professional practice within academic research, and vice versa. Practices in Research (PiR) is an online journal for practice based research in architecture and related disciplines, based on a selection of contributions to a conference. PiR examines how architectural practices engage with and contribute to research.
PiR also invites creative forms of communication, questioning the conventional hierarchy between text and image. Visual and written narratives are understood as operating in multiple, reciprocal ways: images are more than illustrations, and text is more than explanation.
This issue, Re Mediating Practices, is based on a call for contributions published in January 2025.
Content
RE-MEDIATING PRACTICES
Introduction
Harold Fallon (KU Leuven, AgwA), Tomas Ooms (KU Leuven, Studio Tuin en Wereld)
NO TIME TO WASTE
On salvaged materials tectonics
Matthieu Brasebin, Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton (brasebin terrisse)
DETERMINED IN UNCERTAINTY
Unfolding stories for the conservation of City Hall Diksmuide
Gert Somers, Jonas Lindekens, Sara Verleye (ono architectuur)
ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER
a story about the “Scarcity and Abundance: Making Architecture with What Is at Hand” studio
Tomas Ooms, Rémi Koumakpayi (KU Leuven, Faculteit Architectuur)
CC+ CURRENT CONDITION PLUS
A design tool for reuse practice
Gino Baldi, Serena Comi (VACUUM ATELIER architects)
RE-ENCHANTING BANALITY
Narratives of reuse in architecture
Margaux Walter, Zélie Davodeau, Giulia Caterina Verga, Géry Leloutre (Karbon’ architecture et urbanisme)
CULTURAL TEXTURE: THE DIGITAL BRICOLEUR AND THE ANALOGOUS CITY
Exploring AI’s Sensitivity to the Cultural Textures On Site.
Marius Grootveld (Veldwerk Architecten, RWTH Aachen)
DRAWING A COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTURE
Gaël Biache, Jean-Nicolas Ertzscheid, Florent Revel, Benoît Streicher (UN1ON)
A LIVING LAB
Design, Development and Implementation of Circular Renovation Strategies
Lieven De Groote, Ana Castillo (MAKER architecten)
HOW TO STEAL A BUILDING
Adapting, recycling and de-constructing in the inner city of Johannesburg.
Dr Heather Dodd (Savage + Dodd Architects, University of Johannesburg)
SECOND CHANCE
Architecture as an Evitential Practice
Sarah Becchio-Paolo Borghino (ErranteArchitetture, Politecnico di Torino)
RAAMLAND
Assemblages, on-screen and on-site
Daniel Norell, Einar Rodhe (Norell/Rodhe, Chalmers University of Technology, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design)
EMERGENT SITES
Two projects to reflect on situated design practice
Roland Reemaa, Laura Linsi (LLRRLLRR)
GRAMMA
Athenian Grammar
Benoit Durandin, Camille Rouaud (Studio Gramma)
COMPOSITE PRACTICE
Interdependence in the design-build process
Katrin Brünjes (BrünjesTyrra Architekten, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences)
ADAPTATION
Exploring circularity and flows through a process of making.
Roz Barr (Roz Barr Architects)
IN THE ACT OF MA(KIN)G
Kinship-centered practice shift
Martina Genovesi, Caterina Malavolti (Every Island)
RECLAIMING THE ARCHIVE
Recovery of Knowledge and Timber at Cowan Court, Cambridge
Dylan Radcliffe Brown (6a architects)
EPILOGUE
Working in Flux
Circularity, Uncertainty, and the Transformation of Architectural Practice: Notes from a plenary conversation, Brussels, May 21, 2025
Elodie Degavre (UCLouvain), Juliane Greb (UAntwerpen, Büro Juliane Greb), Tine Segers (UAntwerpen), Cristian Ștefănescu (A-Works, BAS Bergen School of Architecture)
Editor in Chief: Harold Fallon (KU Leuven, AgwA)
Associate Editor: Tomas Ooms (KU Leuven, Studio Tuin en Wereld)
Editorial Board: Martina Barcelloni Corte (ULiège), Benoît Burquel (ULB, AgwA), Elodie Degavre (UCLouvain), Christine Fontaine (UCLouvain), Juliane Greb (UAntwerpen, Büro Juliane Greb), Tine Segers (UAntwerpen), Wouter Van Acker (ULB), Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège, AgwA)
Editorial Coordinators: Louise Meersseman (AgwA), Flora Tamm (AgwA)
Scientific Committee: Tiphain Abenia (ULB), Céline Bodart (ULiège, ENSAPLV), Stijn Cools (aNNo architecten, KU Leuven), Niklas Fanelsa (TU München), Pauline Fockedey (Nord, UCLouvain), Liesbeth Funck (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Lidia Gasperoni (Bartlett School of Architecture-UCL), Christoph Heinemann (ifau, Universität Kassel), Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA), Urszula Kozminska (Arkitektskolen Aarhus), Fabiano Micocci (NE A R architecture, University of Thessaly, UTH Urban Design Lab), Claus Peder Pederson (Arkitectskolen Aarhus), Bie Plevoets (UHasselt, As Found Network), Cristian Ștefănescu (A-Works, BAS Bergen School of Architecture), Guillaume Vanneste (vvv, UCLouvain, Uliège)
321 pages
ISSN: 2736-3996
