Events

Monthly forum where members of Level Five collectively give form to the commons of the workspace.

Monthly forum where members of Level Five collectively give form to the commons of the workspace.

Monthly forum where members of Level Five collectively give form to the commons of the workspace.

In this workshop we will zoom in on the building and uses in and along the building. The focus lies on the overlap between the different needs resulting in a spatial complexity with a good sense of sharing. How can we envision shared collective spaces, while preserving safe space and specific needs of specific users and partners? Where do we draw the line of what can be shared and what does that imply in terms of collective and public spaces ? The workshop focusses on the interest and advantages that can be mutualised between the different partners and their activities, while raising awareness on potential sensitive consequences by reflecting on how a place can tolerate friction or disagreement. The notion of sharing also questions to what extent a building can become public. What needs to remain a safe space, what space is there for overlap. The personal history and the intimacy we have with some public buildings, is sometimes the only connection to wander through the space.

This workshop focuses on the construction site. How creative interventions in the building process could extent the paradigm of cheap and fast and turned it into solidary and durable. How could we imagine a building at the same time as a construction site while already making use of the building? We will look for methodologies that engage contractors in a project while leaving room for an appropriation integrated development by the users themselves, methodologies that re-invent the time line of a building from foundations to final use, cross fertilizing construction, use and appropriation over the course of time. Both considerations will be addressed within the framework of a defined construction language which deals with intelligent structure, materiality, sustainability and degrees of finishing. As a preparation different attitudes will be explored by investigating prominent examples, expertise and shared experiences in search of a becommoning.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Level Five is an artist-run cooperative studio floor located in Brussels, hosting about 80 artists. As a workgroup of Level Five we are producing a radio-like podcast series. Every two weeks on Friday we will put a new piece online ranging from interviews, discussions, a sound work or soundscape, or something else.

Reading - John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature, Monthly Review Press, 2020. Session V - Chapter 7. The Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Socialist Society and Chapter 8. Marx’s Ecology and the Left Let’s get together to read, talk and think about our contemporary constellation and potential practices that might constitute new forms of life. The coming years That Might Be Right will study what is called primitive accumulation; the historical and continuous expropriation of people from common land, resources and relations. (See — Reconstituting Geographies) Spring semester 2021 we will read The Robbery of Nature by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark in which they apitalism’s plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System. The sessions are not an endeavour of specialists or insiders, everybody brings the knowledge and experience they have to the table and we will work towards a shared, although not necessarily consensual, understanding of the topic. It is advised to read the chapters of each session beforehand, in order for us to discuss and reread parts of the chapter together during the session. The book is in English, English will be the main language of conversation but open to contribute in other languages

Reading - John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature, Monthly Review Press, 2020. Session VI - Chapter 10. The Planetary Emergency, 2020–2050 and Chapter 11. The Long Ecological Revolution Let’s get together to read, talk and think about our contemporary constellation and potential practices that might constitute new forms of life. The coming years That Might Be Right will study what is called primitive accumulation; the historical and continuous expropriation of people from common land, resources and relations. (See — Reconstituting Geographies) Spring semester 2021 we will read The Robbery of Nature by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark in which they apitalism’s plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System. The sessions are not an endeavour of specialists or insiders, everybody brings the knowledge and experience they have to the table and we will work towards a shared, although not necessarily consensual, understanding of the topic. It is advised to read the chapters of each session beforehand, in order for us to discuss and reread parts of the chapter together during the session. The book is in English, English will be the main language of conversation but open to contribute in other languages