IDW 2021

Biographies workshop leaders Menna Agha Menna Agha is an Egyptian Nubian architect and researcher; she holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Antwerp and was a spatial justice fellow at the University of Oregon. She now acts as the justice and equity consultant at the Flemish Architecture Institute. Menna’s work deals with displacement, gender, and emotional practices in architecture. Her latest publication titled “emotional capital and the other ontologies of the architect” calls for recognizing emotional labor in architecture.. Sadrie Alves Sadrie Alves (BR/BE) currently lives and works in Belgium on playful commissions and engaging collaborations in the public space - painting a square’s concrete floor in Kureghem with the help of multiple hands during ‘The Land of the Confused’ - or in an intimate setting - working closely with Lies Jo Vandehende to develop visual poetry. @_sadrie Sammy Baloji B. 1978, Lubumbashi, DR Congo. Lives and works in Brussels and Lubumbashi. Since 2005, Sammy Baloji has been exploring the memory and history of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His work is an ongoing research on the cultural, architectural and in- dustrial heritage of the Katanga region, as well as a questioning of the impact of Belgian coloni- zation. His use of photographic archives allows him to manipu- late time and space, comparing ancient colonial narratives with contemporary economic imperialism. His video works, installations and photographic series highlight how identities are shaped, transformed, perverted and reinvented. His critical view of contemporary societies is a warning about how cultural clichés continue to shape collective memories and thus allow social and politi- cal power games to continue to dictate human behaviour. A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, he has received numer- ous awards and distinctions. twentyninestudio.net Benedicte Beldam Benedicte Beldam (NO) has an educational background from National Academy of the Arts Oslo department of Fine Art and KASK department of Autonome Design. Her work often involves poems, drawings, letters, stories, instructions and the mystical. Enchanting encounters are woven into everyday life and whimsical narratives. Collaborations include ‘The Land of the Confused’, ‘Vi Møtes’ and ‘Jerome’. The left side image documents an astrological forecast performed in a gigant sauna during last years Pluto/ Jupiter conjunction. @moreovermoss ​https://cargocollective.com/ benedictebeldam​ Anđelka Bnin-Bninski Anđelka Bnin-Bninski, PhD, is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher. She has specialized in theory of arts and media (University of Arts in Belgrade, 2009) and philosophy of architecture (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette, 2014). She teaches studio design and methodology courses at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture. Her recently defended PhD thesis “The role of the architectural drawing in the dynamics of living space partition” is in the fields of philosophy and theory of architectural drawing and it is based on drawing practice in architectural analysis. Her current investigations are focused on strategies and tactics of architectural drawing research. Pablo Calderón Salazar Bogotá (Colombia), 1985 Born to Maria and Jose, on a cold Wednesday morning in a city 2600m above the Andes. Built a close relationship with LEGO from early age, perhaps the only clue I would become a designer. Applied to three different undergrad programmes, but chose design for the reggae concert taking place in the University on the day of my interview. Applied also to three different master programmes, and chose social design given the higher political awareness I had cultivated. Acutely aware of my privileged position in Colombia as a white- looking straight man; but simultaneously subaltern, as a Latin American in Europe. I have developed my work as a border practitioner, walking along –and trespassing- the borderline between academic and popular knowledge, theory and practice, teaching and creation, as well as between different knowledge domains. Cineál Cineál (Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny) is a research and design practice formed by architects Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny that explores the experiential qualities of the built environment through a practice of mapping and observation. This has involved modes including - but not limited to - walking, sketch, notation, photography and sound recording. We are interested in understanding architectural spaces in the urban landscape at a human level - how and why public space makes us feel or react in certain conscious and unconscious ways. Cineál, working between the cities of Dublin and Berlin seeks to facilitate an interactive platform for discussion around architecture and the public realm. Most recently, we have been studying the soundscape; making exploratory studies in sound and space through engaged research that investigates the impact and use of sonic thresholds and the opportunities sound creates for different types of public experience. Bert Danckaert (°1965, Antwerp, Belgium) Bert Danckaert studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts (NHISK) in Antwerp (B). Since the mid-nineties, he has been working as a photographer and has showed his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. Besides his artistic activities, Danckaert also writes about photography for several newspapers and magazines (mainly <H>ART) and has worked as freelance curator. He is associate professor of photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (B) and coordinator of the department. Bert Danckaert is Piece of Cake member, an international network of photographers. He is currently working on a VLIR-UOS South initiative on heritage in Cuba of which he is promoter. www.bert-danckaert.be www.the-institute-of-doubt.org