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04 m.u.s.e.u.m./installation/part of the “dictionary of space”/

Picture of the box with 100 m.u.s.e.u.m. plans, the invitation and the program.

The m.u.s.e.u.m. project is an installation that has beenproduced for the colloquium “Museum in Motion” (Ghent/Maastricht/ Sittard). The project consists of a set of threedrawings, a box with 100 plans, an invitation and a whitetable. The project tries to define the architectural notion of a “museum for contemporary art”. It strips down the discussionsof curators and artists about the museum of contemporary art to a set of simple spatial conditions.

6 The typology house. photo model installed at Witte de With. open. Drawing. plan.

04 typology house/plan/part of the “dictionary of space”/Part I. Housing/

98The typology house. photos model.

The typology house is a project developed for the housing book.The project tries to define a new typology for the house startingfrom the idea that a house is mainly a storage space for our personal belongings. The house is made as a labyrinth ofcupboards of different sizes that are cut up by differentliving areas. For the exhibition “Lieven De Boeck; Making thingspublic” in Witte de With and curated by Catherine David, a modelon scale 1/1 was constructed.

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04 Entre deux/publication/

in collaboration with John Murphy/production by Jan Van Eyck academy/Maastricht

Cover Entre deux publication. editors Lieven De Boeck and John Murphy. design RalphBauer. 16p.b&w. A5format.

The publication can be seen as a discourse on traces oftransportation, flashes of memories, re-installations and re-interpretations and mapping of exhibitions in spaces.

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03 The 7 tables of Urbanism/7 thoughts about 7 words used in Architecture andurbanism/

project produced for the exhibition Entre-deux/Paul Casaer-Lieven De Boeck in Netwerk Aalstcurated by Paul Lagrin.

The 7 tables of Urbanism. photo of the installation at Witte de With Rotterdam. The 7 tables of Urbanism. photo of the installation at Netwerk Aalst.

The seven tables of urbanism are part of the “dictionary of space”project part III/ the City. Seven certificates reflect on sevenwords that are regularly used in architecture and urbanism butthat are quite un-adapted and complex with a meaning stronglydepending on the context the word is used into. The seven tablesintroduce seven new un-adapted words with the opposite and thesame significance as the original word.

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03 MONUMENT/video installation in collaboration with Paul Casaer/

project produced for the exhibition Entre-deux/Paul Casaer–Lieven De Boeck/Netwerk Aalst/curated by Paul Lagrin.

Monument. still left projection. Monument. still right projection.

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03/04 Lieven De Boeck/Housing/Modus Operandi/

publication of the housing research at the Jan Van Eyck academy

Cover Housing book. Dutch edition. 2 color publication in an English/Dutch edition. 2x 500ex. 12.8cmx19cm. 176p. editor Lieven De Boeck.

“Housing” is the first publication in the “dictionary of space”project that has been published as a book. It consist out of a series of projects illustrated in drawings and in fictionstories (written by Jannah Loontjens). The traditional house is deconstructed in some archeological fragments and with thesefragments pieces of a puzzle are made to discover again theoriginal meaning of housing. The book also is appropriated byJohnny Golding’s “it’s a wonderfull life” (for the Englishedition) and Suchan Kinoshita’s “parallel”(for the Dutch edition).

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03/04 le cabinet d’Icarus/House #1. My Belongings/installation/

project produced for the exhibition Lieven De Boeck; Making Things Public/Witte de WithRotterdam/3 paper boxes filled with objects in different materials.

2726Photo calendar. day 24 of moon month # 6.

03/04 le cabinet d’Icarus/House #1./My Belongings/Calendar for a moon year/

produced for the exhibition Lieven De Boeck; Making Things Public/Witte de With Rotterdam/cmyk print on paper.

The calendar is another representation of the project House #1. My Belongings. Here the different objects are ordered in amoon year. By doing this another notion of time is introducedin a housing situation.

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03 my garden/video 15min./

Project produced at Jan Van Eyck academy.

Videostill. My garden. planting a fruit tree.Photo of the installation of the project at Witte de With as part of the performance area in the exhibition Lieven DeBoeck; Making Things Public. Curated by Catherine David.

This project is part of the research produced at the Jan VanEyck academy in Maastricht. The idea is that one can appropriateeasily leftovers in the city and turn them into a private garden.

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02 Fireworks II. Le Bleu du Ciel./

Project produced at the Jan Van Eyck academy./4 cmyk offset print with drawings, a text andtwo models on scale 1/200 representing the event of 11.09 as an architectural project.

Drawing 2. site plan.

3332Drawing 3. cahier de charges. Drawing 4. plan/section/facade.

3534 Photo model scale 1/200 in the exhibition. Lieven De Boeck. Position. Gallery Hedah. Maastricht.

[It is called a coincidence the first time you seeher.] The “event” is the clarification of thatwhich emerges from a previous state ofaffairs. Contrarily, an “incident” has no ref-erence to any antecedent. The aesthetics ofdisappearance, applied by a Boeing 767200ER on WTC1, was able to carry thetruth of the incident for 1200 seconds. Theaeroplane materialised out of thin air, pene-trated the tower, and dissolved. Ever sinceJ.G. Ballard’s CRASH, an incident of thisnature was desired. Virilio states that,already in the invention of the ship, theshipwreck is present; just as the plane hasan inevitable disaster stashed away insideit. By the way, isn’t it so that a tower of suchheight is just waiting for an encounter ofthis magnitude? A magnificent accident?[I was afraid to look into her eyes. Scared ofwhat the reflection in the lenses might showme.] Once the strategy of the incident waschosen, one could abandon it no longer,although the inverse symmetrical duplica-tion of the situation suggested otherwise. Assoon as the United Airlines Boeing impact-ed on the second tower, the storyline of theclear accident, was replaced with that of anincidental encounter between a local tendencyand the global standard. Pure camouflage tohide the event. In essence the event is bynature a duality; it is momentum (emergingfrom an evolution of elements), as well asthe contemplation of that evolution. Thatmakes the event hard to control because it issimultaneously a split-second occurrenceand the further consideration of that split-second. A world system that exists by thegrace of de-realisation needs to avoid con-templation at all times, in order to maintainsuper simulation of identity, the superficialfantasy of post-modernity.

[And still I looked. Then I knew. My wholelife was nothing less than the preparation forher.] When the observation of the incidentis replaced by the contemplation of theevent, a dizzying beauty reveals itself: abacchanal pleasure, the ultimate orgasmthat, for a split-second, contains the sincer-ity of emptiness, when, for the duration of afragment, there is nothing. A void thatoriginates from a continuum of facts culmi-nating in that one point, at that one bound-ary, within that one event, and after whicheverything is different.[Her body touched mine. Suddenly. Unpre-pared fireworks. And I fell into the emptinessof the sky.] The event is an in-between, anentr’acte space, the gap between the pre- and the after-, the interval betweentwo acts in a theatrical performance.Entr’acte space is a transgression, thespace in which prohibition is violated, thespace of sin. Everything that is impossiblein normal life, which is forbidden, is sacri-ficed in this ritual interval, accepting asupernormal state. It is a spatial transition-al construction made of reinforced concreteand kerosene, as the ultimate boundarybetween the profane world of economicsand the sacral celebration of waste.[Of course I am now irrevocably lost in her.Would I want it any other way?] In theexplosion of the two towers, in those fire-works and in the licking orange-yellowflames, lies hidden the space of the excess. A space that is obliged to stay buried sothat the joke we call society can keep onexisting. Yet we have decided to show itwithin these few pages, without any hope ofattaining anything. As a senseless, gratu-itous act. [STARLAB]

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03/04 the White Flag/proposition for a new flag for the European Union/

project produced for the exhibition Public space/legal space/ungoing documentary center/etablissement d’en face projects Brussels/Sancta Monica Barcelona/curated by Eva Gonzalez Sancho.

Photo “the white flag” at Witte de With Rotterdam.

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04 world heritage/video 8min./

Project produced at Hangar Barcelona.

Videostill. World heritage.

In this project the idea of world heritage is questioned. Can a place or a building have an importance for the entireglobal community? Can a place that is only important for oneperson not have the same importance?

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03 the Line of Desertion/performance/

performance in collaboration with This Group. (Lieven De Boeck, Johnny Golding and JannahLoontjens) and Jurgen Vanderdonckt./27 min./produced for Studio Open Stad.

Invitation drawing

The project is part of the dictionary of space project part II.The public space. The project introduces new ideas about therepresentation of territories, boundaries and public space.

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.. 0.. … :: TYPE: text-file: European history and “Terra-reformatione” … .. .. .. . .… .. :/// :: :…... … .. .:/ :: Made: sector 7/3_(51°9’2’’North-4°1’5’’East) .. . 00. 0 --.. . ./: 00. .. /: // 00 0 000… .:/ … Last modification: 29 November, 2074, 0126 CentralWorld Time…. .. … :// //: …0….---1.0 Before “terra-reformatione”---Neuromancer, the novel written by WilliamGibson in 1984, and more specifically the sentence “the new informational network orcomputer matrix called cyberspace looks like Los Angeles seen from five thousand feetup in the air” is generally considered as the first manifestation of hypermodernity.This tendency, which was very dominant at the beginning of the 21st century, arosethrough the combinations of various modes of post-modern thinking and a popularreception of technological change through which it dominated nature and culture.---1.1 Hypermodernity---The hypermodern techno sphere is the mutated pairing ofpostmodernism with virtual reality (“era of de-realism”). This resulted in a structural,technological globalisation that strives towards a world-wide amorphous individualism:a continuous manipulation became embedded in the appearance of desiring-production.In order to attain that goal, the system has replaced the “principle of originality” bythe strategy of reproduction.---1.2 Reproduction---To secure its future, the capitalistsystem needs to, according to Marx, cyclically repeat itself to create continuity.Because of this, reproduction delivers the illusion of progress, but has the reality ofconvertible identity. Hypermodernism is the base on which the developments in the3rd millennium originated.---1.3 SAKHACIN 3---The “Goliath-project” that super-greenpeace (union of all conservation of nature groupings) executed on 24th ofFebruary 2004 (seizure of the British Petroleum platform SAKHACIN 3 before itcould be dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, which would have jeopardized the eco systemof the North Sea) appears to be the motive of the hypermodern process wherein thepower of adaptation becomes clear. SAKHACIN 3 ventilated the European civildispleasure against the process of industrialisation of the agrarian sector. This dis-pleasure is caused by the discovery of PCB’s in Belgian chickens, the European BSE-scandal, the worldwide swine-plague of 2003-2004 and the genetic food-manipulationdefaults by TransCorn in 2006. This resulted eventually in the “Ecorope-research”(contraction of ecology and Europe) that concluded definitively in 2010. The Ecorope-research was the moment at which the ideological main point shifted from rightwingto conservative-left (by means of the principle of convertibility) which founded thebasis for a new European identification. (Adaptation of the system to altering input)---1.4 Ecorope---The research recommended the decentralization of society and called

02/03 T.E.X.T. file/Terra Reformatione/A future History for Europe/

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for a shift toward a “cybernetic model” and the social incorporation of techno-realisticprinciples.---1.5 Technorealism---Based on a concept developed by Shapiro Andrew,Shenk David and Johnson Steve, technorealism is meant to deliver social and politicalstructures more control facing technological innovations.---1.5.1 Rules of ethics---A considerable assessment made by technorealism was defining the non-neutralcharacter of technology because of the simple fact that technological innovations areideologically committed. The immediate result was the development of the “rules ofethics” by a central commission in the European parliament in 2012.---1.5.2Information---At the same time the consciousness that a distinction exists betweeninformation and knowledge has grown, due to the high levels of manipulation.Information no longer possessed the photographic reliability from the 20th centuryby which information is useful for practises that conflict with the rules of ethics.Information does not want to be free like the famous hacker’s devise during the lastdecades of the past century stated, information wants to be protected.---1.5.3 Socialcontrol---The new rules and laws to protect information rely on the combined forcesof government and citizens. The individual comprehension of the – mainly communi-cation – technology was indispensable and continuous retraining was inevitable.---1.6Retro-hippies---The retro-hippie movement, influenced by the “new-new-age” guruAntonin Lugumbaschi, arose from the restrictions in favour of nature and ecology.---1.7 Eco-communes---The movement organised itself into several eco-communeswhere communal life was created without rejection of the technological acquisitions.---1.8 Rhizome---Because of the eco-avant-gardism and the political/technologicalevolutions, a renewed interest grew in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. Derivedmetaphorically out of botany, the concept of the rhizome offered a perfect theoreticalpendant for the open, non-hierarchical, spontaneous and horizontal extensiveness ofcyberspace. The concept of the rhizome became the principle tool towards a decen-tralised, utopian Europe: if the centralised city can be broken down to its “molecularrhizomes”, then the direct democracy would be achieved from the moment peoplebegan to reorganise themselves into little, nomadic structures. These eco-communessaw themselves as the forerunners of this process.---2.0 Development and evolution of “terra-reformatione”--- The green nomadicfantasy did not last long: once the theory was X-rayed by bio-engineers and ecosystem-analysts, the conclusion was that the capacity of the earth theoretically appeared tobe too small to be grown rank by nomads.---2.1 Terra-reformatione---Co-operationbetween urbanists, architects, biologists, economists, philosophers and the European

politicians. Founded in Milan d.d 2016.---2.2 Theory of decentralised compactness---The rhizome-concept seemed to be feasible if it was to be applied in a more compactvariant: the nomad can exist in a concentrated community. (This, of course, meantthe end of the second anarcho-communist dream).---2.3 Charter of Milan---Thedeclaration of intention by terra-reformatione.---2.3.1 Institute Europe---BecauseEurope as a union became much more important than the federal states which con-stituted it, Europe evolved towards the organisational model similar to that of theUnited States. The boundaries that used to separate different countries reformed intomere linguistic and cultural demarcations within a borderless Europe. T-R (terra-reformatione) demanded that Europe needed to be administrated by a CentralEuropean Council instead of a multiplicity of little republics and kingdoms. Themanagement of ecology required a pan-European approach since pollution doesn’tstop at borderlines.---2.3.2 Economo-political precedents---Even though T-R mainlyfocused on techno-ecological evolutions, contributions towards this perspective werealready made at the end of the 20th century regarding economy and political philoso-phy.---2.3.2.1 Economy---Anybody who reconstructs 20th century history (mainlythe storyline of the European unification) merely needs 4 acronyms: ECSC (EuropeanCoal and Steel Community), EEC (European Economic Community), EC (EuropeanCommunity) and EU (European Union). This charts a process derived from industrialco-operation followed by economic unification that resulted in a monetary basedunion. As Saskia Sassen pointed out, this economical evolution was based on theincrease in the mobility and liquidity of capital that stimulated cross-border economicprocesses (flows of capital, labour, goods, raw materials, tourists, etc).---2.3.2.2Political---These economic flows – just like ecological processes – overwrite the principleof the nation-state. The boundaries defined by the modern system of nation-statesthat once were fundamental to European colonialism and economic expansionbecame obstructions in the hypermodern era. Rem Koolhaas’ “barcode of Europe”became the visual manifestation that represented of this process that was describedby Hardt and Negri as: “the distinct national colours of the imperialist map of theworld have merged and blended in the imperial global rainbow”.---2.3.3 WorldBorderline System (WBS)---The idea was to spread the surface of the earth with animaginary network of meridians and parallels descended from Hipparchos. Imitatingthe Babylonian method of calculation, he created a grid of 360 lines stretched fromthe North to the South Pole and 180 lines parallel to the equator. Doing so, he dividedthe world into 359 x 179 = 64.261 parts, or unamatrices. The area of one unamatrice

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then is 7.936,38 km2. Each unamatrice on the European continent became a self-sup-porting subdivision within the unified Europe, wherein laws and rules are treated ona local level. This can be considered as the outsourcing of everyday practical govern-ment by the council of Europe.---2.3.4 European compactness--- The concept of the“blue banana”, developed in 1989 by Roger Brunet, describes the economic andgeographic unity of Europe. Already 40% of the European population were accom-modated within the region of the blue banana. The tendency in the territory of theblue banana (from London over Brussels, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Munchen, Zurich toMilan) was the linking of cities into meta-urban wholes. T-R aimed to concentrate90% of the European population into the territory of the blue banana, and 10% in thered hot spots Glasgow, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid,Porto and Athens.---2.3.5 Decentralisation---The Rhizome-concept was applied withinthe area of the blue banana: the relocalisation of the European population by meansof network principles. This operation resulted in an isotropic landscape wherein com-munities organised themselves according to “tribe-rudiments”. A model used tostructure this development was the After-sprawl theory of architect Xaveer de Geyter.Here settlements were arranged through the concept of the “negative space”.---2.4Supereurope--- Tabula Rasa: when concentrating 90% of the population into 35% ofthe European surface, 65% was liberated where nature could develop independently.2.4 Supereurope. Tabula Rasa: when concentrating 90% of the population into 35%of the European surface, 65% was liberated where nature could develop independentand boldly.---2.4.1 Organisation---The construction of Supereurope.---2.4.1.1 Urban---Supereurope is an accumulation of periphery without a centre and infrastructure asorganizing principle, a hybrid landscape with a clear boundary between country andcity. The axis of Supereurope consists of a double superhighway system in combinationwith an excellent fast train network. At the same time, the canal “Titanic” thatconnected the North Sea with the Mediterranean divided Europe. This canal runsparallel with the primary traffic-artery. Connecting the point-cities and Supereurope,a traffic system originated. These infrastructional developments were impressive, butnothing compared to the bridging of the English Channel by the bridge city, realisedin 2055, this structure definitively united the Common Wealth to the European conti-nent. For this project the model of the Unadapted City of Top office was developed. A monorail bridge with urban facilities connected with housing blocks was constructedfrom Calais to Dover. This city part of Supereurope was mainly inhabited by oldfisherman and former Dutch citizens because they were used to living with their feet

in the water. In 2069 a second bridge was constructed bridging Spain to the Africancontinent, opening the European borders towards Africa.---2.4.1.2 Rural---Along theedges of the urban area lies the agrarian landscape that, thanks to the progressivebiotechnological industry, only consumes 10% of the area used 100 years before.Actually, the rural landscape is an imagery that doesn’t stand in accordance withreality because the agrarian farmer is replaced by an agrarian-bio-industry.---2.4.1.3Nature---From the border of the agrarian sector, nature stretches itself towards theboundaries of the continent. All artificially built areas will be replaced by 2120 (at thelatest) with the original vegetation, thanks to the generation strategy. The only spotsthat remain with human activity in the natural sector are the energy-producing areas(solar energy collector fields and windmill parks) and the hotel cities in the Alps.---2.4.2 Monuments---The urban redevelopment did not contribute towards the destruc-tion of the old-European monuments: after indexication, a commission of specialistswere appointed to decide which monuments had to be preserved for future genera-tions. Some monuments remained in their original place (some surrounded bynature), others were removed to relevant points inside Supereurope; most however didnot survive the reformations. The history of the city was no longer conserved in stone,but in bits and bites. European identity is no longer moulded by history, but by theimpact of Supereurope as the ultimate non-monument, composed copy/paste style.---2.4.3 Colour---There are three primary colours in Supereurope: concretegrey, roofgarden-green and brakelightred.---2.4.4 Edge---The most important element in Supereuropeis its border.---2.4.5 Network---The organizational instrument within Supereurope isthe network: the solution of Christopher Alexander’s “a city is not a tree” problem.Alexander suggested conceptualising the city as a partial screen: an abstract struc-ture without hierarchy where every point could be connected with every other point.The network as an open structure wherein the modern nomad stipulated his routefrom one nodal point to another with the space inbetween considered a non-space.This model eventually evolved towards a fragmentised Europe.---2.4.6 Gated commu-nities---By raising the nomad to the ultimate lifestyle, a renewed tribalism wasstimulated: the nomad withdraws himself -when he isn’t travelling- inside his tribe, ormore accurately put, inside the mental boundaries of his tribe. The existence of thetribe is based on the need for identity: identification by means of the “others” andtheir lifestyle. Each tribe is a homogeneously composed cluster of people, based onage, cultural background, income, position or sexual preference.---2.4.7 Supersprawl---Europe developed into a gigantic metropolis without a centre, a mere fractal blur.

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Land division is based on the mathematical formulation of binary capital: this meansthe cost price effective m2 of land linked to the income-limit of the purchaser.Everybody remains within the boundaries of his own social group, the only difference,in comparison with the archaic tribe structure, is that the territory isn’t serried[decompartmentalised] but spread over the whole surface of the megalopolis. (Thesystem of top office dividing the European territory into equal parts for everybodyseemed to difficult to accept)---2.4.8 Identity---Identity is particularly based onASIS-rules (Age, Sex, Income, Style). It is the most important form of productdifferentiation. In Supereurope, identity – ASIS-rules – separates on an urban levelbecause of its effect on the division of functions. The only difference with the modernera is that identity, instead of function, is causing this division: Supereurope is LeCorbusier’s wet dream in an “all the same” post-modern coat.---2.4.9 Centre---In thewords of Neil M. Denari: “Centers are strange conditions. Once the idea of anthro-pocentric logic, now they are ambivalent. In geometric terms, they exist to locate anorigin to an arc or a circle. But, at the same time, we usually believe that the line thatemerges in relation to the center is the perimeter that we are searching to constructand the center simply a point whose importance is eclipsed the moment the line isproduced. The center is reference but no content.”---2.5 Congestionbomb---Throughout history, the centre was a point of reference by which a whole society tookwarning. Tribalism caused the centre to disappear in Supereurope, because the modernnomad only attends to the nodal points within his tribe. This meant that a knot onlyhad to support one single identity. A centre on the other hand is rich in meaningthrough the flow of identities that pass by. The centre especially seamed to be apsychological element. The last organizational interference by terra-reformatione,before disbanding itself in 2066, was the introduction of psyblocks: structures thattook over and supported the function of the centre. The principle starts from the pos-sibility of gathering multiple identities in one single nodal point. A special knot thatworks for multiple tribes because of the combination of totally different programs inone point. Instead of spreading, the psyblock becomes a congestionbomb:Simultaneously attractor and generator, sociologically programmed to combineunique programs and functions in order to attract multiple streams of nomads and getthem interwoven…………………………………………………………............................___ . . ::: /::/// . . . . 000 . 000 . .. 0 00 =::: . . . _ °° … .. . . :: / 0 00 … . .:. : . :….. .…….00 ./:: .. .:.°°:.:.::///: : .: .000 :. .0: .: 00:…::: //: STARLAB 2003 //…… .. 00 ….........

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