The exhibition stems from the consideration that any building designed according to the currently dominant architectural principles is ‘zombie’, non-living, as it is based on technologies and energies that will soon be exhausted or too costly for the planet. This zombie perspective invites us to reconsider the way we approach architecture, to ‘de-project’ it by reappropriating the tools of thinking and doing.
By taking technology out of the ghost of innovation, the exhibition looks at techniques that emerge from hybrid, localised, living cultures, based on knowledge and skills – between engineer and bricoleur – that are transferred and contaminated across disciplines and social groups. Neither high-tech nor low-tech, these experiments represent a sample of minoritarian but fertile approaches that can help us to rethink our relationship with the built environment and architectural practice.

Contributions: Accattone with Alice Paris, Julien Jacob, Arnaud Depeyre and Éléonore Morand (Depeyre-Morand Architectures), Rosa Fens and Nomi Schrauwen, Ciel Grommen, Maximiliaan Royakkers and Clémentine Vaultier, Annee Grøtte Viken, Vinh Linh, Thomas Mertens and Jochen Schamelhout (Elmēs) | bplus.xyz (b+) | Sammy Baloji and Filip De Boeck | Baukunst | Andrea Branzi | Buckminster Fuller | Central ofaau with Juliette Simeone and CUMA (La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture, ULB Brussels) | common room and Cornelia Escher on Oswald Mathias Ungers | Maxime Delvaux | Élodie Degavre on Jean Englebert, Paul Petit, Lucien and Simone Kroll | Arnaud Depeyre | Theo De Meyer | Nicolas Dorval-Bory | Kris De Decker with Marie Otsuka, Roel Roscam Abbing and Marie Verdeil | Global Tools | Alice Grégoire, Éléonore Morand and Atelier du Désert (P45 Versailles) on André Ravéreau | Index-aR | Kuehn Malvezzi | Lucie Lanzini | L’Atelier Paysan | LIST with Hideyuki Nakayama and Bollinger + Grohmann | Jonas Løland | Thomas Min and Egon Van Herreweghe | MLAV.LAND | Félix Meilleur Roy and Capucine Rombi | Alexandre Monnin | Nicolas Nova | Frei Otto | Alice Paris on Osamu Ishiyama | Victor Petit | Julien Prévieux | Cedric Price | Stijn Colon | Lionel Devlieger, Aude-Line Dulière with Arne Vande Capelle Robbe Van der Mynsbrugge, James Westcott and Rotor on Marcel Raymaekers | Sujets Objets and Pauls Rietums | Superstudio | Felix Trombe | Truant School | Truwant + Rodet + | Yositika Utida, Shu-Koh-Sha Architectural and Urban Design Studio.

Exhibition pictures by Solène Hoffmann