'heritage & circularity' lecture series

We are excited to announce a series of expert guest lectures on the topic of heritage and circularity, exploring how architectural heritage can contribute to sustainable building practices and how we can achieve a 'circular turn' in architectural heritage. The lectures will feature renowned experts who will delve into subjects like material reuse, adaptive reuse strategies, and the values that shape heritage conservation.

• Bie Plevoets (UHasselt): Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage - Concepts and Cases of an Emerging Discipline (October 11, 11am)
• Susan Ross (Carleton University, Canada): Salvaging Modern Architecture's Material Discards for Meaningful Reuse (October 18, 11am) !!! auditorium changed, now in E.0.10 !!!!
• Lionel Devlieger (Ghent University, Rotor): "A building has integrity, just like a man. And just as seldom." (October 25, 11am)
• Lara Reyniers (VUB Architectural Engineering): Building on the Past: How Heritage Organizations Addressed Material Reuse (October 28, 1pm)
• Ruben Van Vooren (VUB Architectural Engineering): Maintaining dreams of aluminium and glass (December 6, 11 am)
• Leen Meganck & Rudy De Graef (Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed): Heritage values (December 13, 11 am)

This series is organized within the framework of the course "Theoretical Reflections on Architectural Heritage" but is open to all who are interested in the intersection of heritage and sustainability. The lectures are live, at VUB (Pleinlaan 2, Brussels), without online streaming. For more information and short abstracts of each lecture, click on the thumbnail image.

If you would like to attend, please contact Stephanie Van de Voorde at stephanie.van.de.voorde@vub.be .