Lecture and workshop Hülya Ertas
Hülya Ertas is a curator and architecture critic. On Monday April 27th she's joining us at the beguinage for a lecture (open to everone) and a PhD workshop (for PhD students only).
About Hülya Ertas
Hülya Ertas is a curator and architecture critic. Since 2020, she has been working at the Flanders Architecture Institute in Antwerp as a curator and editor. From 2004 to 2020, she worked at the monthly published XXI architecture and design magazine, based in Istanbul.
She curates exhibitions, edits books, writes articles and does research. Her main focus is on the societal and political role of architecture and the critical reading of socio-spatial practices. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Architecture in 2005 and completed her master's in architecture at the same school in 2011, with the title The Situationist International on the 1960s Radical Architecture. She completed her PhD in 2024 at the Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels, KU Leuven, entitled Towards a Critique for the Architecture of the Commons. She is currently based in Brussels.
Lecture
- Open for everybody
- April 27th 2026
- 10h30 - 11h45
Architecture exhibitions are a way to represent the built environment in a three-dimensional space. They tell a story about architectures from various eras, they convey messages. In her lecture, curator Hülya Ertas will share her experiences in making exhibitions from their first phases of conception to realisation. She will unfold the collaborative process, artistic research methodologies and practices of inclusive gatekeeping.
PhD Workshop
- Open for PhD students only
- April 27th 2026
- 13h30 - 15h00
During the following PhD workshop, the participants will engage in developing ideas about transforming their research into an exhibition. Through a structured dialogue among researchers, this workshop aims to equip them with some basic knowledge about framing their research into an exhibition.
Workshop materials
- Main research question and objectives – in one A4
- Ideas on what to exhibit - which outcome of the research, ideas for location, scenography, etc, also in one A4
These two pages should be compiled in one document, and the document (.doc or .pdf) should be named as the participants name, ie hulyaertas.pdf.
These documents should be uploaded to this drive, accessible to all participants, by the 23rd of April. So whoever is curious about other researchers’ work can have a look beforehand. The idea is to have dialogue and interaction among researchers, rather than providing direct instructions.
Date and location:
- Monday April 27nd 2026
- Begijnhof Hasselt, Kapittelzaal (house #2 / 1.4)
- 10h30 - 11h45: Lecture
Open for everyone - 13h30 - 15h00: Workshop
Only for PhD students / limited spots - first come, first served
Registration
Please register via this form.