Symbiotic Hospitality unfolds as a sequence of activities that move from shared inquiry toward situated practice. Taking place between March and September, it brings together lectures, workshops, a collective reading, an excursion, and a residential summercamp. Each format addresses the topic of hosting and guesting from a different angle, allowing participants to enter the programme at multiple points while contributing to a shared trajectory.

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Program

12/03
Greenworming Corporate Governance Systems - Alexandra Pimor [LECTURE]

The language of onboarding Nature into corporate organisations is commonly used; and from an anthropocentric perspective, this suggests that Nature is brought into human-made systems. However, from an ecological perspective, this framing is ultimately inverted.

Lecture by Alexandra Pimor, Director of Nature Governance at the Earth Law Center.

20h - 22h
Timelab 

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22/03 - 23/03 
Practicing Relationality - Caitlin Walker [MASTERCLASS]

“Nothing pre-exists the relations that constitute it.”

This two-day masterclass by Caitlin Walker articulates why Clean Language is highly relevant for participatory design methods and for practices in which working with others is central.

March 22: 9h30 - 20h30
March 23: 9h30 - 17h

Timelab 

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31/03 
Participation for Real - Hülya Ertas & Elke Krasny [DEBATE] 

Participation for Real brings together critical perspectives on participatory practices in architecture, design, and spatial production. The book examines how participation is enacted in concrete contexts, beyond formal procedures or rhetorical commitments, and asks what participation actually produces in terms of power, responsibility, and collective agency.

With Vlaams Architectuurinstituut (VAi). 

20h - 22h
Timelab 

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23/04 
Designing mutualistic interfaces - Frederick Van Amstel [LECTURE]

In this lecture, Dr. Frederick van Amstel shares his research on designing mutualistic interfaces, interfaces that enable mutual recognition among users. Reflecting on participatory design projects involving analogue and digital interfaces he worked on in the Netherlands, the US, and Brazil, Frederick evaluates what worked and what didn't in practice.

20h - 22h
Timelab 

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12/05 
Hybrid species - Matthijs De Block [WORKSHOP] 

This workshop explores hybrid species as figures through which questions of hospitality, co-existence, and responsibility become tangible. Matthijs de Block’s artistic practice engages with bio-materials, transgenic organisms, and speculative ecologies to examine how life is shaped through encounters between species, technologies, and cultural imaginaries. . 

14h - 17h
Timelab 

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31/05 
Past the Tower, Under the Tree [BOOK BRUNCH]

At the book brunch, we will discuss Past the Tower, Under the Tree, a joint anthology that presents learning as a communal, embodied, and situated practice. Included in this book are accounts, poems, and musings by practitioners engaged in knowledge creation beyond formal education and institutions, underscoring learning as a process rooted in relationships and evolution.

9h - 12h
Timelab 

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14/06 - 18/06 
The janitor Host - Wim Cuyvers [EXCURSION]

The Janitor, defined by Wim Cuyvers as hosting rooted in continuity and care, is the central theme of this excursion. At Montavoix, a remote site in the Jura mountains; Wim Cuyvers lives and practices a life in relation where hosting unfolds through maintenance, presence, and responsiveness to place over time.

Montavoix, Jura (France)

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15/09 - 20/09 

Summercamp 2026

This five-day summercamp brings together hosts of cultural, artistic, and civic spaces from different parts of the world who work with long-term care for people, places, and infrastructures.

Participants are practitioners who sustain environments over time through attentiveness, maintenance, negotiation, and relational labour, often operating from positions that remain less visible within dominant organisational narratives.
Read the insightful interview with last years participants here. 

Timelab

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