INDESEM

Info

Dates 10 May – 17 May 2019
Location Faculty of Architecture, Delft
Website www.indesem.nl

Geschiedenis

InDeSem (International Design Seminar) is a biennale, founded by a group of students in 1962 and reinitiated in 1986 by Herman Hertzberger. The biennale is hosted at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology. InDeSem has had the honor of hosting internationally acclaimed architects such as Aldo van Eijck, Adriaan Geuze, Rem Koolhaas, Wiel Arets, Ben van Berkel, Winy Maas, Daan Roosegaarde, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Steven Holl, Greg Lynn, Peter Cook and Renzo Piano, and theorists
such as Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Anthony Vidler, Neil Leach and Michael Speaks.

The programme of the InDeSem seminar week consists of lectures, excursions and a workshop, all organized around a specific contemporary theme. Every edition of the seminar aims to raise awareness about this theme and its consequences for the architectural
practice, in which both faculty and international students embark on an accompanying specifically themed design project. The seminar provides an environment in which students, tutors, architects and theorists engage in conversation and discussion about the current and
future position of the architect within society.

Previous InDeSem editions explored a vast range of themes, such as the impact of emerging digital fabrication technologies on the practice of architecture (InDeSem 2015 - Re.Craft), the frictions between the different scales in architecture (InDeSem 2013 - Scale Matters), the
reduced influence of the built environment as a platform for human interaction (InDeSem 2011 - Losing Ground), the architectural perception through senses other than the purely visual (InDeSem 2009 - Point of View), the notion of legacy in architecture (InDeSem 2007 - The Legacy) and the architect's responsibility in geopolitics, and the production and consolidation of power (InDeSem 2005 - A Political Act).

InDeSem is organized by a student committee, under the supervision of renowned faculty professors. Herman Hertzberger, Wiek Röling, Michiel Riedijk and Winy Maas curated previous editions of the seminar. The InDeSem 2017 board consists of Tymon Hogenelst, Lauren Broshuis, Hugo Wijdeveld, Daphne Delissen, Ties van Benten, Thomas Dillon and
Louise Remmelts, and is supervised by Machiel van der Dorst.

"INDESEM International Design Seminar is a biennale, founded by a group of students in 1964 and reinitiated in 1985 by Herman Hertzberger. The biennale is hosted at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology. INDESEM has had the honor of hosting internationally acclaimed architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Rem Koolhaas, Winy Maas, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Steven Holl, Peter Cook, Renzo Piano and much more.The programme of the INDESEM seminar week consists of lectures, excursions and a workshop, all organized around a specific contemporary theme. Every edition of the seminar aims to raise awareness about this theme and its consequences for the architectural practice."