In Practice, the Exploration of Design Processes : a conversation

On the occasion of the book festival 9000 boeken and of the DAM architecture book award obtained by Raamwerk In Practice: Lichtervelde Youth House, the publisher MER B&L invited the editors to organize a talk to discuss the books on November 6th 2021 at the Kunsthal in Ghent. We invited Aslı Çiçek, a practicing architect and visiting professor at UHasselt and UGent. She is also a member of the editorial board of OASE Journal for Architecture. We invited Freek Dendooven and Gijs De Cock as well, architects and partners of the Raamwerk firm. During the talk, Harold Fallon represented the editorial board, including Benoît Burquel and Benoît Vandenbulcke. The talk combined the perspectives of the architecture practice, of the edition and of the theory.
The discussion addressed several aspects, amongst which the role of design processes in the forming of architecture theory, the authorship in multidisciplinary contexts, the relationships between text and images, the collaboration with a photographer, the issue of distance between practice and research and the significance of the small scale and detail in contemporary architecture discourse.