Category: practice
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L’Agence Saint-Gilloise [Brussels, 2022]
L’Agence Saint-Gilloise was a project developed by Laboratorio Popolare (Priscilla Suarez Bock and myself) in response to the Open Call for a participatory project in public space (Kunst in co-creatie) launched by Pianofabriek in 2022, and which encouraged applicants to address the ‘growing polarisation’ in Saint-Gilles (Belgium). As a way of understanding the complexity of…
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Walking the word of design in Genk [Genk, March 2021]
The 19th of March of 2021 I made a performative walk around Genk, through which I shared the central elements of my doctoral research while grounding them in concrete places of Genk. The walk represented a part of the artistic component of my doctoral defence, which took place one month later, the 19th of April.…
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Funghi Lab [Genk, 2016]
How can the circular economy be put into practice in a local context, starting from the existing local skills? Funghi Lab was an exploratory process of designing, prototyping and testing a system to produce, distribute and market mushrooms from waste (resources) in Genk. In several cities have the potential of growing food based on organic waste…
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TRADERS Open School [Hasselt, 2017]
The TRADERS Open School was a 10-day academy that brought together art and design thinkers, practitioners and various publics to critically engage in urban processes and discourses through the lenses of agency, participation and public space. The event was premised on the notion that ‘things can be otherwise’, it acted as a challenge to rethink…
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Minga! in three acts [Hasselt, 2017]
The minga was organized in ‘three acts’: a first one to brainstorm and draft ideas on the space and elements that ought to be built (as well as clean-up and organize the space to be built upon); a second one, of two days, for actually building the space; and a third one to collectively cook…
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The Politics of Queuing and the Architecture of the Queue [The Hague, 2016]
The Politics of Queuing and the Architecture of the Queue deals with the spatial, mental, political, economic and social implications of the queue, its taxonomies, preconditions, procedures and the parameters of interdependence between its actors, and it will manifest in a digital research database and in physical interactions with queues. Protocol #1 – Todays Art (The Hague,…