Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Filip Dujardin

short CV

Foto von Filip Dujardin

Filip Dujardin was born in Ghent (Be.) in 1971. He studied art history at Ghent University and photography at the Royal Academy of Ghent. Since 2007 Filip Dujardin works as an independent architectural photographer and visual artist. In 2008, Dujardin presents his series "Fictions" for the first time in BOZAR/Brussels, a collection of digital photocollages of imaginary architecture. In 2011 his work was purchased by the MoMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and San Francisco. A first monograph was published in 2014 called "Fictions 2007-2014". Dujardin was part of the "Bravoure team" in 2016 for the exhibition at the Belgian Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice and in 2018 he participated in the Architecture Biennale in Chicago. Solo exhibitions will follow in the Van der Mieden Gallery in Antwerp, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Katowice (Poland), Nantes (Fr.), Madison an San Francisco (U.S.A.), Amersfoort (NL) and Brussels.

Abstract

Foto von Filip Dujardin

Playing in the Ruins

In this lecture I will explain how my artistic work evolved out of my activities as an architectural photographer. By dessecting buildings through the lense of a camera I became aware of how the vocabulary and grammatics of architecture works. This knowledge gave me the material to play with these rules and create new images dealing with typology, scale and form, historical awareness, cultural and political status of architecture. This body of work consists of a series of digital photocollages which represents fictious architecture. They are constructed images built out of pictures of existing architecture. They are the result of a "romantic" longing for a kind of architecture that doesn't exist in reality. Their plausibility on paper give them an aura of an impossible reality. However I'm not an architect the need to operate in real space is always present. Therefore I also will show my spatial installations where I explore the themes in my photographic work translated in spatial actions. They are part of a cyclus of photographing reality (architectural photography) that slips into a work that is deconstructing, re-arranging and compressing reality (photocollage) and finally becoming reality again (3d installations).

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