Reflections on Life

After five months of research and experimentation within the framework of Residency #004, Stefanie Everaert and Theo De Meyer, founders of Stand Van Zaken, return to et al. for a public talk.

During their residency, the duo reflected on their five-years experience of inhabiting a family-owned greenhouse on the outskirts of Ghent. A space that gradually evolved from a tomato-growing structure into a place for living, learning, building, and sharing.

This residency was an opportunity to document their domestic life in the greenhouse, giving themselves the possibility to look back at what it means to inhabit space seasonally, from the depths of winter to the beginning of summer. Through this process, they explored how life in a vast, climate-responsive environment can challenge and expand our understanding of home.

The resulting exhibition and accompanying publication pay tribute to this experience, gathering a rich body of material that captures the many ways of occupying space and playing with the boundaries of domestic habits.

In this talk, Stefanie and Theo will share insights from their life in the greenhouse, the empirical research they conducted and tools they developed along the way. They will start a discussion about what this form of migratory, adaptable living can teach us about freedom and space today.

On Thursday 27 November, they will be present at et al. to talk about their reflections.