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EXPERIENCED PROJECT LEADER (m/f) Architecture Workroom (AW) is expanding its team with a project leader to work on a number of ongoing projects.You will be part of a dynamic and committed team of architects and researchers. As project leader, you will be responsible for managing, providing specific support and implementing one or more projects within AW. What is Architecture Workroom? AW is a cultural think-and-do tank for innovation in architecture and urban planning. As initiator, mediator and platform, AW creates the space and conditions for innovative architecture and for design research. AW consists of a team of ten architect researchers and is led by three partners. The longer strategic work lines of AW focus on visionary housing, productive landscapes, caring neighbourhoods and the productive city. As a platform for design research and knowledge sharing, AW contributes to the broad social debate, to professional practice and knowledge development, and to the renewal of urban development and policy. Brussels, small cosmopolitan and Capital of Europe, is the ideal base - also often the laboratory - for AW to contribute to the national and international debate on shaping the urbanising world in which we live. Job description The project leader: - Jointly develops the project definition, the substantive lines, the process design and the design research within the framework of projects that AW wishes to achieve (ranging from project studios, government contracts, cultural productions and other activities) - Monitors the ambitions and the progress of the process, in coordination with the partners. - Immerses him or herself in the current urban planning debate - Coordinates processes of prospective design research and helps determine the strategy. - Maintains contact with the partners of AW, the architects, researchers, experts and other parties involved. - Analyses and synthesises the work delivered and communicates with professionals, authorities and the
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press. - Regularly reports to the partners on the results achieved. - Is also responsible for time management over the various projects. Profile We are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic and talented candidates. - With several years of relevant work experience in the field of design/design research/urban development/ spatial development; - Hold a Master’s Degree in architecture, urban planning, spatial planning or similar; - Driven by involvement in social and spatial issues, particularly in relation to climate change and urbanization, and prepared to take the complexity as a starting point; - With a naturally investigative and analytical attitude; - Able to approach complex issues in a structured way, to synthesise them and to translate them into work processes; - Able to lead projects independently and to pro actively execute the organizational and production activities that result from this; - Prepared to work in an international and multidisciplinary (substance, production) team; - With experience in the area of design and/or implementation of urban planning projects; - Interest in culture production (organising exhibitions, public events, producing books, etc.) is an advantage; - Possessing a vision and knowledge of the theory, practice and the latest developments related to architecture and urban planning; - Results-oriented and able to perform well under pressure; - Highly flexible in terms of working hours;
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Architecture Workroom Brussels   European Centre for Innovation in Architecture and Urbanism
b - Fluent in Dutch, French and/or English, both verbally and in writing; - With knowledge of basic software packages, CAD and GIS software. We offer a full-time position of a fixed duration or a cooperation on a freelance basis. Salary and the terms of employment are in accordance with the difficulty of the position, suitable for a small socio-cultural organization and depending on qualifications and experience (PC 329.01). Interested? Apply by e-mail with a letter of motivation and curriculum vitae, (possibly including a portfolio) before 20 December 2017 at info@architectureworkroom.eu.