La Vie En Kit - Engels ondertiteld (+ Q&A)
Documentary that takes you on a voyage of discovery of very special houses built by activist architects in Brussels, Liège and Charleroi fifty years ago. What remains today of their visionary houses?
The houses were part of so-called participation experiments; lightweight houses designed by their future buyers. A construction kit entrusted to students. In Brussels, Liège and Charleroi, architects and a handful of adventurous residents realised their utopia: housing in a construction kit, accessible to all.
Elodie Degavre – architect, lecturer, filmmaker and photographer – is shown around by the architects of the time: Simone and Lucien Kroll, Jean Englebert and Paul Petit. Fifty years after the realisation of their prototypes, the three now elderly architects look back on their work. During this journey through time, a crucial question emerges: what about us, how will we live tomorrow?