The intermediate workshop ran in collaboration with Studio Tanzania, 1^st Master in Architecture at Hasselt University.

The historical town of Bagamoyo is located just North of Dar-Es-Salaam and across Zanzibar Island. Bagamoyo was the most important harbour of the East-African mainland during the 19^th and early 20^th century. Famous before for trade in ivory and slaves, the town briefly became the colonial capital of German East-Africa, until it moved to Dar-Es-Salaam. The town has today about 85.000 inhabitants who mainly live in informal settlements while the historic stone town along the coast line is largely abandoned with most of its historical buildings in a poor state of conservation.

The regeneration of Bagamoyo through adaptive reuse of its (pre-)colonial heritage buildings was the topic of the intermediate workshop. The students were asked to investigate the economic, social and cultural potentialities of the waterfront and urban strip along the coast, and to create new opportunities for current and future inhabitants. They developed a spatial narrative by designing the adaptive reuse of a particular heritage building or site and by reflecting on their contentious properties. The proposals were to be routed in the historical or existing characteristics of the site, elaborating on tangible as well as intangible heritage values.