BUILDING BEYOND BORDERS
LEARNING FOR, FROM AND WITH THE WORLD
Building Beyond Borders is a cross-border learning platform to enhance knowledge and push action towards regenerative and distributive design and building processes
With its postgraduate certificate, hands-on workshops, bi-annual fall symposium, Global Perspectives master design studio, research and internships, Building Beyond Borders offers a wide variety of learning moments to students, professionals and other interested alike.
International collaboration to exchange skills and visions is key to this platform. Focus is on responsible ways of building, within a context of scarce resources and a low-tech approach, aiming for a positive environmental impact and high social return.
With its unique pedagogical approach and civic ambition, Hasselt University's Faculty of Architecture and Arts makes the perfect home for Building Beyond Borders.
NEWS
Building Beyond Pastorie Festival
Are you interested in sustainability and regenerative materials? Are you interested in building with the community?
Come and discover during our Building Festival (19 April - 05 May).
You can follow lectures, be part of workshops or spontaneously start helping out with the ongoing construction of the pavilion in the Pastorie garden. No previous experience is needed, unless stated otherwise.
Full programme on the students' wearebuildingbeyondborders website
Everyone is welcome and we hope to see many of you soon.
started!
the preparations for the pavilion of the postgraduate certificate 2023-2024 have started...
Harvesting local wood
BBB students bought 12m3 of local woodlogs
for the Pastorie pavilion
photo at Meerdaalwoud Heverlee
BuildingBeyondBorders in Morocco
BBB students' study visit and
hands-on workshops in Morocco.
photo at the Mamoun Kadiri earth dome
Finalists!
We are participating in the strand 'Education champions - shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life cycle thinking'.
New edition postgraduate certificate
Registrations for the new edition of Building Beyond Borders are now closed.
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