The Joy of making, learning and teaching

10/02/2019

After a week of homestays in the Sindhuli and Makwanpur region our architecture and interior architecture students of KULeuven delivered an analysis of the local schools, designed some future proposals and came up with hands-on improvements. Thank you CEPP, Teeka Bhattarai, Wart Thys, Michael Rai!

10/02/2019

Nepali way!
Back in the Kalidevi school, lifting the central steal truss of the roof on the concrete supports. Quite an impressive job by the local welders, on their slippers...
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With: Hilde Bouchez, Tom Callebaut, Ignaas Back, Klaas Vanslembrouck, Wart Thys

03/06/2018

Yes! After months of work behind the scenes; the work on the construction site has been resumed! Looking good!

12/02/2018

Workshop closure at Tribhuvan University - Faculty of Architecture. 🙏🏻 to all our hardworking students, professors and collaborators.

09/02/2018

The Destiny Express to Kalidevi.

From homestay to social exploration about women’s tattoos, medicinal herbs, family structures, Tamang, Buddhist and Hindu practices and of course getting used to eating the local dish, Dal Bhat (white rice & lentil soup) three times a day.

– With: Hilde Bouchez, Klaas Vanslembrouck, Ignaas Back, Tom Callebaut, Wart Thys, Lin Seminck, Teeka Bhattarai, Michael Rai

08/02/2018

Last tuesday we arrived in Kalidevi, a mainly Tamang village in the Makwanpur valley. 20 students architecture & interior architecture from the faculty of architecture, KULeuven & 3 students of the teacher training college Erasmus Hogeschool, researching and actually building the first ‘Post-School.’ A pilot project to reactivate the traditional knowledge and instigate an active and cooperative learning environment.

– With: Hilde Bouchez, Klaas Vanslembrouck, Ignaas Back, Tom Callebaut, Wart Thys, Teeka Bhattarai, Michael Rai, Lin Seminck

29/01/2018

We are back in Kathmandu preparing for our second workshop starting next week!

04/12/2017

For all my students and all those who wonder what we are doing in NEPAL, CONGO and soon the village of Ittoqqortoormiit in GREENLAND, where we are building physical places or 'hardware' to (re)activate the traditional 'software' as for example shown in this video. Very much in the spirit of my book 'Wild Things', and aligned with the research of Tom Callebaut on 'Generous Spaces', and the the architectural practices of Ignaas Back & Klaas Vanslembrouck focussing on contemporary building, linked with valuable traditions adding sustainability, identity and creating a continuity. Together we are the marvellous WILD STUDIES-team :-) www.wild-studies.org

22/06/2017

Please enJOY a closer look at the 'ideal school' models of our architecture students.

22/06/2017

Yesterday our architecture students presented their 'ideal schools' for Nuwakot, Dolakha and Sindhuli. We are very proud! Please enJOY!

28/05/2017

In Dolakha we asked the teachers what they thought would be a good way to have more children coming to school. Their answer: Give free food! Because hungry children cannot concentrate....

This organization in Peru grows food in the schools and links it with a whole program so the children learn to grow the vegetables themselves + help the parents with growing their own food. It is a very interesting model that could easily be adapted to Nepal.
Building a school is about much more than bricks and concrete...

Por Eso! is in 2007 opgericht met als belangrijkste resultaat dat anno 2017 meer dan 1000 families en schoolgaande kinderen gezond eten en dit blijven doen. We leggen op school en thuis moestuinen aan, we bouwen tuinkassen, eetzalen op school en verbeteren de woningen van de families. We werken…