COLLOQUIUM: The status of garden cities and cooperative housing

On the occasion of the centenary of the Le Logis-Floréal city garden, CIVA is organising, in collaboration with the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Urban and Le Logis-Floréal, an international colloquium on the current state of cooperative garden cities and the capacity of such a model to meet the challenges of contemporary housing. 

Dates
Thursday, March 24, 2022Friday, March 25, 2022
Language(s)
FR / NL / EN
Place
CIVA, Rue de l'Ermitage 55, 1050 Brussels
Coproduction
CIVA, ULB, Urban, Le Logis-Floréal

PROGRAMME

Thursday 24.03.2022 I 14:00-21:00

14:00 - INTRODUCTION
Ans Persoons, Alderwoman of Town Planning City of Brussels 
Nikolaus Hirsch, Yaron Pesztat (CIVA)

14:15 - TALKS

14:15 - 14:45
Le Logis-Floréal and the avant-garde of the 1920s  
Francis Strauven (UGent)

14:45 - 15:15
Cooperative Conditions: The Zurich Case
Anne Kockelkorn (TU Delft), Susanne Schindler (ETH Zürich / MIT Cambridge)

15:15 - 15:45
BREAK

15:45 - 16:05 
Le Logis-Floréal: preserving an architectural and urban heritage
Manja Vanhaelen (Urban)

16:05 - 16:20
The garden city of the Butte Rouge in danger
Barbara Gutglas-Ducourneau

16:20 - 16:50
Le Logis-Floréal: preserving landscape heritage
Eric Hennaut (CIVA)

16:50 - 17:10
Current status of the garden district model
Benoît Moritz (La Cambre-ULB, MSA)

17:10 - 18:00
Anne Kockelkorn (TU Delft), Benoît Moritz (La Cambre-ULB, MSA) in conversation with Nikolaus Hirsch

19:00 - SCREENING
Historic films on Le Logis-Floréal (with Cinematek & Le Logis-Floréal)

19:00 - OPENING
Exhibition Le Logis-Floréal – un projet coopératif

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Friday 25.03.2022 I 09:00-21:00

09:15 - INTRODUCTIE
Christian Dessouroux (Metrolab/ULB)

09:30 - TALKS

09:30 – 10:20
Presentation of the ULB study on the evolution of the social mix and interviews with residents
Christian Vandermotten (IGEAT/ULB)

10:20 - 10:50
Over- and under-use of housing: a problem and potential
Pierre Marissal (ULB) 

10:50 - 11:20
BREAK

11:20 - 11:50
The mix in social housing
Yves Lemmens (SLRB)

11:50 - 12:20
Round table
Christian Vandermotten, Pierre Marissal & Yves Lemmens

12:30 - TOURS
Guided tour exhibition Le Logis-Floréal – un projet coopératif

14:00 - INTRODUCTION
Nawal Ben Hamou, Secretary of State of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Housing and Equal Opportunities
Guy Conde-Reis (Urban) 

14:15 - TALKS

14:15 - 14:45
New Brussels responses to the demand for social housing
Antoine de Borman (Perspective.Brussels)

14:45 - 15:15
New social configurations and collective housing in Vienna
Gabu Heindl (Vienna/ London)

15:15 - 15:35
BREAK

15:35 - 15:55
Transformative Densification
Matthieu Moreau (51N4E)

15:55 - 16:15
‘CASCO-OP’, a strategy for affordable and qualitative housing in Groningen?
Brecht Van Duppen (B-architecten)

16:15 - 17:30
Round table
Kristiaan Borret (bouwmeester maître-architecte Région de Bruxelles-Capitale), Gabu Heindl (Vienne/Londres), Matthieu Moreau (51N4E), Brecht Van Duppen (B-architecten) and Nikolaus Hirsch

18:30 - SCREENING
Film: The Property Drama
Arno Brandlhuber & Christopher Roth 

19:00 - TALKS
Lecture: Promised Land: Housing from Commodification to Cooperation
Pier Vittorio Aureli