Conference - Ecology and Disciplinary Decompartmentalization
by Lionel Devlieger
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6pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre -
as part of the conference "What architecture does to ecology" organized by the ATE laboratory
*EDIT* to follow the conference live: https://webtv.normandie-univ.fr/lives/colloque-ecologie-et-decloisonnement-disciplinaire/
Aristotle defines economy as the art of managing a household. Ernst Haeckel defines ecology as the interaction of living beings within an environment, seen as a shared household, a co-ownership. One definition of an architect could be one who, through in-depth study - formal or informal - has addressed the question of habitat and inhabitation; the interaction between living beings, and the physical reality of their shared envelope. Does such a "training" prepare one to be more lucid about ecological issues on the scale of a landscape, a country, a planet? This is the question that Lionel Devlieger's conference will address, bringing arguments in favor of, but also against, this postulate.
Lionel Devlieger is an engineer-architect and historian. He is co-founder of Rotor, a Brussels-based organization specialized in the study of current material culture.
Rotor promotes the debate on issues related to resources, waste and obsolescence in the building sector through research projects, exhibitions, conferences and publications. Rotor also coordinates large-scale dismantling operations, collaborates on architectural projects and carries out design projects.
Lionel Devlieger has taught at universities in Europe and the United States (UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, AA School, among others). He is co-author of Deconstruction and Reuse, 2018, a textbook on the reuse of building elements. Since September 2021, he is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, where he teaches, among other things, the history of circular design and modern building ecologies.
visual: "The veins of the earth", plate extracted from Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, 1556.