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1. Michiel Dehaene
  Bio
  Michiel Dehaene is associate professor in the department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, where he teaches courses in urban analysis and design. His work focuses on the epistemology of urbanism and the relation between urbanism, ecology and urbanization. With Chiara Tornaghi he is the principal investigator in an international research project ‘Urbanising in Place’ on agroecological urbanism.
  [last updated in 2021]
2. issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 104
  The Urban Household of Metabolism
  2019
  Abstract
  Metabolism is the conversion of one form of matter into another. Urban design and architecture are currently paying a great deal of attention to the charting and controlling of material flows …
  Editors of this issue
  David Peleman, Bruno Notteboom, Michiel Dehaene
  
  David Peleman, Bruno Notteboom, Michiel Dehaene
  001
  Fragments of a Changing Natural History of Urbanisation
  001
  Editorial
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 96
  Social Poetics
  The Architecture of Use and Appropriation
  2016
  Abstract
  OASE 96 examines the remarkable revival of architectural practices that focus on reuse and appropriation of buildings, environments and materials. To what extent can and will designers engage in …
  Editors of this issue
  Michiel Dehaene, Els Vervloesem, Marleen Goethals, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Klaske Havik, Lidewij Lenders, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds,, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  
  Els Vervloesem, Michiel Dehaene, Marleen Goethals, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
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  Social Poetics
  The Architecture of Use and Appropriation
  011
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 93
  Making landscape public
  Making public landscape
  2014
  Abstract
  The 93th issue of OASE magazine examines the recent attention that has been paid to the relationship between landscape and urban planning. This issue explores historical and contemporary attempts at …
  Editors of this issue
  Michiel Dehaene, Bruno Notteboom, Hans Teerds
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  
  Michiel Dehaene, Bruno Notteboom, Hans Teerds
  002
  Editorial
  Making Landscape Public / Making Public Landscape
  002
  In the field of urban development and spatial planning, a remarkable amount of attention has been given to the theme of ‘landscape; over the past 20 years. The notion of landscape turns out to have …
  
  Claudia Faraone and Michiel Dehaene
  026
  Landscapes Larger Than Life
  Notes on Two Films about Territorial Transformations in Europe
  026
  This article discusses two recent films that address processes of landscape transformation in Europe: Alpi by Armin Linke and Robinson in Ruins by Patrick Keiller. …
  
  Michiel Dehaene
  100
  Landscapes at the Tipping Point
  The Landscape of the In-Between City
  100
  If urbanisation has been historically portrayed as a front moving over the country from the city outwards, today the process of urbanisation is unbounded. It …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 89
  Medium
  Images of the Mid-Size City
  2013
  Abstract
  OASE 89 is dedicated to the image of the mid-size city. Not just the way this is interpreted, but also how it is produced by urban designers and architects. The urbanism discourse has long focused …
  Editors of this issue
  Bruno Notteboom, Klaske Havik, Michiel Dehaene
  
  Bruno Notteboom, Klaske Havik, Michiel Dehaene
  002
  The Mid-Size City as a European Urban Condition and Strategy
  002
  
  Michiel Dehaene, Philippe Vandenbroeck
  080
  Cityscapes for the Post-Carbon Age
  Stadsbeelden voor het post-carbon tijdperk
  080
  Two recent trends in thinking about the sustainable city, the Transition Town movement and the Territorialist School, explicitly conjure up the image of a world composed of modest-sized cities …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 85
  Productive Uncertainty
  Indeterminacy in Spatial Design, Planning and Management
  2011
  Abstract
  The economic crisis of the last few years has had an impact on the domain of spatial planning and architectural practice. This is why OASE finds it imperative to pose the question of how …
  
  Els Vervloesem, Michiel Dehaene
  017
  When Urban Design Leaves Some Room
  Shifting Degrees of Indeterminacy in Rotterdam-Zuid
  017
  In their paper Michiel Dehaene and Els Vervloesem document the notorious difficulty of the ‘urbanist’ discipline to handle indeterminacy, its continued struggle to construct and cultivate conditions …

12/02/2025
Call for Abstracts OASE 123
Incompleteness / Written by Sebastiaan Loosen, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete / Deadline 7 March 2025
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23/10/2024
Call for Abstracts OASE 122
Ecological Pedagogies / Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner / Deadline 1 December 2024
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06/10/2024
Call for Submissions
Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism
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21/11/2023
call for conversations OASE 118
Rationalism Revisited

This Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.
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11/11/2023
call for abstracts OASE 119
1. Review of Jean-Louis de Cordemoy's Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture in Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences & des beaux-arts, September 1706
Book Reviews
From Words to Buildings
In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. This Call is written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds. The deadline is 20 December 2023.
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06/03/2023
BK Talks on 16 March 2023 about 'Design with Soil: Urbanizing the living surface'
On 16 March 2023 the TU Delft will host a debate inspired by OASE 110.
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21/02/2023
Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations
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31/01/2023
Now available: OASE 113. Authorship
What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular authorship.
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02/12/2022
Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL
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24/11/2022
Call for Abstracts OASE 116
1. Carmen Portinho in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (source: Wikimedia Commons)
‘The Architect as Public Instellectual’
Deadline: 23-12-2022
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