Burak Pak
I work across co-design, curating and architectural education to bring questions of belonging and spatial justice into public view. Exhibitions and installations offer ways to develop these questions with artists, researchers, students and communities.
2017 · Brussels · Participatory design proposal
Co-authored with Lydia Karagiannaki & Gideon Boie
With Lydia Karagiannaki and Gideon Boie, I developed a proposal for a public living room in Sint-Joost-ten-Noode. Working with GC Ten Noey, we explored how domestic rituals could inform shared urban space.
Project authors: Lydia Karagiannaki, Gideon Boie & Burak Pak. Community partner: GC Ten Noey.
Future Architecture ↗︎2019 · BNA-BBOT, Brussels · Exhibition
Co-curator & studio advisor
Through Masterstudio_L28, Caroline Claus and I worked with architecture students on listening, sonic mapping and design along Brussels’ railway landscapes. The exhibition at BNA-BBOT brought this work into the street, alongside soundwalks and public conversations.
Curators: Caroline Claus, Burak Pak, Omar Hobo & S. Janssen. Additional contribution: F. Gillié. Developed within Caroline Claus’s doctoral research, supervised by Burak Pak and Peter Cusack.
Vilius Balčiūnas, Eman Afaneh, Sarah Thorisaen, Alexander Auris, Leonie Van Bellingen, Doyel Vasudeo, Mateusz Modzelewski, Melisa Ince & Yin Qi.
2019 · Perspective Brussels · Exhibition
Co-curator with Dag Boutsen
Hanne Van Reusel’s research and Toha De Brant’s photography explored the everyday work of commoning at Josaphat. I co-curated the exhibition with Dag Boutsen, bringing architectural research, images and accounts of collective life into a public setting.
Research and spatial practice: Hanne Van Reusel. Photography: Toha De Brant. Curators: Burak Pak & Dag Boutsen. Perspective Brussels, 1–8 February 2019.
Project record ↗︎Hanne Van Reusel ↗︎Selected contributions as a designer, researcher, educator and curator. Individual project authors and collaborators are credited in each record.
Through A-Place, artists, students and communities explored relationships between people and places. Activities in Brussels included work with Foyer Bodegem residents and A Just Expo at Grand Hospice.
KU Leuven project supervisor. A Just Expo was developed through work led by Rosaura Romero and City is our Playground.
Architectural work with Vitor Silveira Breder Rocha and Aurélie De Smet. Exhibition curated by Vitor Breder, 16–17 October 2021.
Exhibition with Aurélie De Smet, curated by De Smet, with contributions by Geert Bruyneel and Tineke Van Heesvelde.
Contribution to the exhibition by Hanne Van Reusel and T. Stefanova at the Enable conference, with Dag Boutsen.
Exhibition with architect Adinda Aelbrecht; my contribution was as an educator. KU Leuven, Ghent.