Table Setting #0 Laura Muyldermans

In spring 2022, the Flanders Architecture Institute and De Singel will be presenting Table Setting, a brand new exhibition series for young architects from Flanders and Brussels. With the aid of a set of vitrine tables and accompanying props, young designers will take up their positions on the square in front of De Singel. Architect Laura Muyldermans designed the installation and will be kicking off the series.

Table Setting is the new exhibition series for young architects in Flanders and Brussels from the Flanders Architecture Institute and De Singel. It is the next stage in a tradition of young architecture at the arts center. Since the 1980s, established names have found a stage there upon which to showcase their early oeuvre (Young Architecture in Belgium in 1988 and 35m³ young architecture in 2005). Today too, young architects are challenged to determine their own position with regard to the discipline, complex spatial situations and social questions.

The square in front of the De Singel represents the cacophony in which young architects start up their own practice. The multiform boundaries of the asphalt expanse are an ideal backdrop for the exhibition series. Every architect exhibiting there has a set of tables with props designed by Laura Muyldermans. The tables not only serve as an installation in which the designers showcase their work, but also challenge them to take posession of the space on the square.