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2022, A.J. Lode Janssens. 1.47 mbar
On April 10, 1979, in a dilapidated building on Rogierstraat in Brussels, Lode Janssens and his colleague Evert Lagrou, who taught sociology at the Sint-Lucas school of architecture and had gained experience in spatial and regional planning as an academic, opened their research office: the Sint-Lucas Werkgemeenschap, or the Sint-Lucas Working Community (SLuW). The small-scale office offered a studio-based elective to four or five top-level fourth-year architecture students. As an alternative to the desk crit- and drawing-based design studios at the Sint-Lucas school, SLuW guided students throughout a year-long “educational design office” experience, ending with an eight-week intensive summer school in Italy, organized by the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD). SLuW’s ethos aimed at promoting community participation in decision-making processes and supporting resident groups through extensive research. From 1979 to 1988, professors and students engaged in participative projects in complex areas in the Brussels agglomeration. SLuW functioned as a hinge that joined institutionalized education, community service, and theoretical exchange on an international level. It was emblematic of Janssens’ ambition to overthrow the binaries between working and thinking, action and thought, in his professional and pedagogical practices.
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