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Moi et Mon architecte : Phase II Ateliers Participatifs

Pendant plus d’un an, l’équipe du laboratoire de recherches Inter’Act (Université de Liège) a examiné les interactions qui s’établissent entre architectes et clients usagers dans le contexte particulier de l’architecture domiciliaire. Entre les réponses au questionnaire, les entretiens approfondis et les observations en agence, vous avez été plus de 120 à nous accueillir dans ce contexte et nous vous remercions ! …

Questionnaire «Architecte et Maître d’ouvrage : main dans la main, ou dos à dos ?»

L’objectifs du questionnaire était d’identifier des profils d’architectes diversifiés pour réaliser des entrevues semi-dirigées sur la place qu’occupent les usagers-clients au sein du processus de conception des projets résidentiels. Le questionnaire a été diffusé en ligne par L’Ordre des Architectes dans la newsletter du 8 janvier 2021 (rappel le 22 janvier 2021).  Nous avons obtenu 96 réponses sur 6605 (septembre,…

We are Guest Editors for the Journal Architecture !

This Special Issue titled “Contemporary Issues in Participatory Architecture” intends to shed light on recent innovation (research-driven or practice-driven) in participatory architecture. What are the contemporary issues in that regard? Are there any recently adapted, renewed tools, methods, environments and models of interaction and participation that have been developed and specifically tailored for the architectural field? How could theoretical, empirical,…

Congrats, Doctor !

Clémentine Schelings has successfully defended her PhD thesis on April 1, 2021, and this is not an April Fool’s joke ! Her thesis, titled "Renewal of participatory approaches for the making of the Smart City" looks into how citizens’ participation should evolve, considering the new challenges of Smart Cities’ governance. Her results equip engineers, architects, urban planners, decision makers and…

How do countries educate to Design?

Two Inter’Act researchers, Yaprak Hamarat and Çiğdem Yönder, contribute since January ‘21 to a Seminars Series organized by the Design and Society Research Lab of the University of Montreal, led by Prof. Philippe Gauthier. These seminars aim to study and explore infrastructures of design education worldwide. Design researchers from the USA, Europe, Canada, France, Tunisia, and other countries bring their…

Inter’Act Lab conducts Wallonie Design’s Lexicon project this autumn

We are excited to lead the first version of a Walloon Design Lexicon for Wallonie Design ! Wallonie Design is the reference organization for design in Wallonia, the French-speaking community of Belgium. Our lab conducted two workshop sessions with local designers and with design students from the Saint-Luc Art School to test, define, identify the current and upcoming professional vocabulary…

Architects & Clients Interactions: Project Launch!

Inter’Act research lab launched a new research project during summer 2020: « Architects & Clients Interactions (ACI)». The project aims to better understand architects' and users' expectations, needs and constraints when interacting, and to reveal solutions to improve the experience of architectural service for both sides. As the main decisions are made during the early stages of the architectural project, the project…

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