Tag: participatory design
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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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De Andere Markt [Genk, 2015 – 2019]
Website / Facebook page De Andere Markt is a living lab located in the neighborhood of Winterslag, Genk (BE). Genk has been undergoing a rough transition in terms of work, as the three coal mines around which it was created have progressively closed from the 1960’s and the Ford manufacturing factory that was opened to cover the…
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Relational Network Tool – DAM [Online, 2018]
The Relational Network Tool is a digital mapping and networking tool developed in Genk -but spanning internationally- in 2018. The initial drive for developing such tool was motivated by my imminent departure from Genk and Belgium, and therefore the end of my collaboration with the project De Andere Markt (DAM); confronted with this situation, I…
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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…