LEUVENS ADER
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Exploring Scenarios
for the Dyle Valley

Tower of St. Pieters Hospital, Brusselsestraat, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
• Research Group L/A/P | KU Leuven University
• in partnership with the City of Leuven and Stad en Architectuur
• with the support of the Flemish Government (Dienst Stedenbeleid)
• Workshop Website: 
LEUVENS ADER INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Exploring Scenario

Leuven’s inner city has undergone profound changes over the past few decades, and is expected to undergo even further radical transformations in time to come. All along the perimeter of the city’s medieval ramparts, and even within its very core, Leuven has been the stage of both large scale urban operations and small twists and tweaks that have substantially altered its tissue.

SET-UP
The research group LAP (Learning From Architectural Practice) and the Department for Architecture and Spatial Planning of the University of Leuven have launched the initiative for an international workshop.
The ambition is to understand Leuven‘s urban transformation from the past, and to come to new insights and concepts that may inform a fresh discussion. As such this workshop does not aspire to be a draft for the new Spatial Structure Plan, nor a clear-cut solution to tackle the City’s challenges, but is an entirely independent research that primarily aims to explore, expose and enhance the opportunities in Leuven’s DNA.
The workshop will primarily focus on the spatial components of the city, and will use various mapping and design techniques to elaborate and communicate ideas. The outcome will be a provocative and inspiring product, a compilation of maps, explorative design scenarios, questions and critiques, that converges towards.
Six design groups will focus each on a particular theme, issue or scenario within the wider research framework. Six workshop leaders, coming from a variety of established young Belgian design practices will lead the groups over the full course of the workshop. In addition we are happy to welcome various internationally respected guests with broad expertise in the field of architecture, urbanism and design today.

FOR WHOM
This workshop wants to invite enthusiastic young academics and professionals in the fields of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture. Designers who look forward to the intense collaboration with inspiring designers from Belgium and abroad can apply.

GUEST
International Guests: 
• Joao Nunes & Inaki Zoilo | PROAP
• Soren Leth | SLETH
• Filipe Correa | Director of Urban Design Program, Harvard GSD
• Rafi Segal | Associate Professor of Urban Design, MIT
Workshop leaders: 
• BEL Architecten
• MAAT Ontwerpers
• Plusoffice Architects
• TRANS Architectuur & Stedenbouw
• Tom VAN MIEGHEM Architecten
• ZOOM Architecten

FOR MORE INFORMATION & ENROLLMENT
• Website: http://architectuur.kuleuven.be/dijlevallei/
•  Email: dijlevallei@asro.kuleuven.be