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
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 open now!
Interested?
Contact us as soon as possible
Vacant PhD position
New vacant position for a PhD researcher on earth- and lime hemp-based materials
Deadline for application: August 21st
Building Beyond Bricks'
hands-on ateliers
Gain practical skills working with wood, earth and fibres during the hands-on ateliers of the upcoming postgraduate certificate. The atelier is enriched with a one-week earthen workshop in Ouled Merzoug (Morocco)
Four theory and reflect sessions
In the postgraduate certificate, we build our foundations in four thematic sessions:
Materials & Circularity,
Sufficiency & Lowtech building,
Social & Participatory design,
Biodiversity & Landscape
