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Our first day at the faculty has started! Come to the Oostserre to have a glimpse of the design project the participants will be working on this week: a three by five meter model of the city of Rotterdam with interventions from the participating architecture students! This afternoon we will have lectures of our first guest speakers about today's theme; 'The Crowd - Commoning'. See you in the Oostserre!

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///IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT/// We're delighted to receive Sou Fujimoto as our keynote speaker today. Some of you have managed to acquire a ticket for his lecture and we hope to welcome you tomorrow at HNi in Rotterdam. There was some confusion however about the time, so here it is: The registration starts at 14:30. So be on time ;)

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Kick off day has started! From monday on, all lectures will be public!

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT #10 - RONALD WALL

Prof. Dr. Ronald Wall holds the ‘Chair of Economic Development of the City of Johannesburg’, at the School of Economic and Business Sciences,University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), Johannesburg. The Chair bridges the Faculty of Commerce Law and Management and the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, and is established by the Municipality of Johannesburg. He is also the Head of the Urban Competitiveness and Resilience department, at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Wall is a qualified architect, urban planner and economic geographer. He received his PhD in economic geography from the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research concerns global, regional and urban economic development, on topics such as regional integration, economic competitiveness, sustainable cities, world city analysis, smart cities, food security, urban inequality, infrastructure, renewable energy, green economy and happiness economics. Central to Wall’s work is the understanding of cities as spatial-economic systems that bridge local, regional and global scales. Currently Wall’s focus is on African city development - particularly the relationship between urban economics, urban planning and urban design. He is the principal researcher and author of the upcoming UN-Habitat report ‘State of African Cities 2018: The Geography of African Investment’, a partnership between UN-Habitat and IHS-Erasmus University Rotterdam. For full schedule check: www.indesem.nl!

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT #9 - JESPER HENRIKSSON

Jesper Henriksson is cofounder of the architectural practice Hesselbrand, based in London and Oslo. Their research and design focuses on new forms of living and working for an unpredictable way of life. They participated in the Venice biennale 2016 with a proposal for a house that is defined by spatial conditions rather than specific functions, to allow for a different form of flexible space. In his work Henriksson uses models to capture spaces through abstraction. Hesselbrand have attempted to provide the spatial cues for particular social situations without the spaces in which they typically appear. As soon as something becomes functioning architecture it is difficult to view it as standing for anything else. It no longer possesses the cast of the globally representative, but becomes specifically, restrictively sited instead. It loses its status, somehow, as rep­resentative art; hence why these particular objects are ‘Models’. Were they anything more concrete they would cease to be so powerful as abstractions. Public Lectures are in the Oostserre Check the full schedule on: www.indesem.nl

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT #8 - KEES KAAN

For the participants: Kees Kaan will be giving an exclusive lecture for INDESEM at his office in Rotterdam next week! Kees Kaan is an architect based in Rotterdam where he’s directing KAAN Architecten together with partners Vincent Panhuysen and Dikkie Scipio. They are leading an international team of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, engineers and graphic designers. Beforehand he was the co-founder and leader of Claus en Kaan Architecten from 1987-2013.Kaan graduated in Architecture at TU Delft in 1987. Examples of his work are the Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, the Netherlands Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique, the Heimolen Crematorium in Sint-Niklaas and the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague. As full professor he is currently holding the Chair of Complex Projects of the department of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on large-scale projects that characterize rapid global urbanization. Kaan is an international lecturer and sits on various juries and boards, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Numerous books and exhibitions have been dedicated to his body of work. For full schedele check: www.indesem.nl All public lectures are in the Oostserre!

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT #7 - FRANCINE HOUBEN

We are welcoming Francine Houben, co-founder and creative director at Mecanoo Architects and Architect's Journal Woman Architect of the Year 2014, for giving a lecture on our Kick Off Day! Francine Houben began to formulate the three fundamental concepts of her architectural vision whilst studying at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Designing primarily for People, constructing spaces that are relevant to Place, and forging connections that give a building Purpose have remained consistent, underlying values to Mecanoo’s practice over the past three decades. Always seeking inspiration in the details of specific sites and locations, Francine bases her work on precise analysis coupled with an intuition built over three decades. She interweaves social, technical, playful and human aspects of space-making together in order to create a unique solution to each architectural challenge. Francine combines the disciplines of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture in an untraditional way, with a profound sensitivity for light and beauty. Her use of materials, which often contrast in a complementary way, are the sum total of her creative expression. For full schedule check: www.indesem.nl All public lectures are in the Oostserre

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT #6 - IWO BORKOWICZ

Iwo Borkowicz, a recent graduate from the Faculty of Architecture of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), will be coming on Wednesday the 31st of May to INDESEM! Iwo has been awarded the Young Talent Architecture Award 2016, intended to support and develop the talent of recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects, by Fundaciùo Mies van der Rohe. For his project, “A Symbiotic Relation of Cooperative Social Housing and Dispersed Tourism in Havana Vieja”, Borkowicz travelled to Cuba to do his research. There he could see first-hand how increasing luxury tourism and poverty are linked in this city. This situation encouraged him to develop architectural prototypes, to combine small scale tourism, social housing and entrepreneurship within the existing landscape of Havana. For full schedule check: www.indesem.nl All public lectures are in the Oostserre

InDeSem 2017

Just one week to go till the start of INDESEM 2017! Check out the website for the full event schedule and the speakers list: www.indesem.nl Don't forget to attend the event!