As a live contribution to [Home at Arsenale]* Jan Boelen will present Atelier à Habiter, a studio / experiment where artists, architects and designers rethink and redefine the concept of ‘dwelling’. 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. Will the modernistic “machine à habiter” or dwelling machine, built from standard elements for standard needs, shift into the “atelier à habiter” or dwelling workshop where the creative resident stands out as a planner, organiser and designer?

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.

with: Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation (ES), Architecture Workroom Brussels (BE), Guy Ben-Ner (ISR), Johanna Billing (SE), Raphaël Coutin (FR), architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (BE), Daniela Dossi (IT), Filip Dujardin (BE), Anne Harild (DK/UK), Thomas Lommée  (BE) & Christiane Hoegner (DE/BE), Rotor (BE), Sarah & Charles (BE), Studio Makkink & Bey (NL), Francesca Torzo (IT), Gijs Van Vaerenbergh (BE), 00:/ (UK)
curated by Evelien Bracke / Z33

Jan Boelen, born in 1967 in Genk, graduated as a product designer at the Media and Design Academy (KHLim), now the LUCA, Campus C-mine, in Genk (B). He currently holds the position of artistic director of Z33, house for contemporary art in Hasselt (B) and is Head of the Masters Department Social Design at the Design Academy
Eindhoven (NL). Commissioned by the Permanent Deputation of the Province of Limburg, Jan Boelen reformed the Provincial Centre for the Visual Arts into Z33, a house for contemporary art. Since 2002, Z33 has been fashioning projects and exhibitions that encourage the visitor to look at everyday matters in a novel manner. It is a unique laboratory and a meeting place for experiment and innovation where one can discover cutting-edge exhibitions with contemporary art and design. Z33 does not have its own collection of works, but accommodates exhibition shows continuously. In his curatorial work, Jan Boelen has collaborated with Raf Simons, Studio Makkink Bey, John Körmeling, Thomas Lommée, Dunne & Raby, Marti Quixe, Aldo Bakker, Konstantin Grcic, Joseph Grima.

Location

Arsenale / Pavilion of Slovenia
[Home at Arsenale] Campo della Tana, 2169/S, 30122 Venezia, Italy

Admission

Entrance with  tickets of 15th International Architecture Exhibition – Reporting from the front

Info

homeatarsenale(at)gmail.com
www.homeatarsenale.org