L’art public face aux critiques : le cas de “La Maturité”
A thought-provoking look at how Brussels grapples with its past through the controversy surrounding La Maturité, questioning whether public art should reflect today’s values, or challenge them.
Ferma Report : Next – New Exposure Trends
An insightful dive into the FERMA NEXT Report, revealing why forward-thinking risk management is essential to anticipate emerging threats and move from reactive decisions to proactive resilience in an uncertain world.
Climate Emergency Manifesto
A manifesto highlighting the urgent need for collective climate action and offering practical, citizen-focused measures to encourage more sustainable everyday choices.
SpinApp
A research-driven insight showing that perceived safety in public transport depends on social and contextual factors, supported by SpinApp, a tool that helps stakeholders assess and plan infrastructure resilience and refurbishment costs.
Brussels, climate and culture
A city with many faces, opposing views, fragmented green spaces, heavy traffic jams, shrinking unbuilt surface but nevertheless striking a positive balance of friendliness, tolerance, cordiality and energy.
European Mobility Startup Manifesto
It has been an energizing project, based on the input of the participating start-ups we hope the vision laid out in the Manifesto will foster sustainable mobility, breathtaking creativity, innovative entrepreneurship and agile governance and in so doing contribute to a Europe that is strong, fair and healthy.
Adapt, focus, engage, here comes post-COVID-19
Despite the deep pain caused by the loss of many dear ones due to this pandemic, COVID-19 can also be seen as an occasion to re-think, re-design, re-view and roll-out. To be sure, the lock-down and confinement have generated improved air quality, lower noise levels, more frequent walking, jogging, walking and cycling,…
Cities, energy & waste
In 1960 the World counted two mega cities (with populations of over 10 million), New York and Tokyo; in 2011, the number had risen to twenty two. Today there are 47 megacities in the world. Most of them are located in Asia…
Mobility, density and urban green space
Cities can be looked at from many angles, in what follows I’d like to invite you to look at cities as a ‘multi-core dynamic network’. Standing alone, the cores are fairly meaningless, risking isolation, insecurity, with pockets of impoverishment…
Cities, from spheres of power to providers of competence
Previously, in Europe, men were the main producers of goods and services in the city. They would go out to conduct business meetings with other men. Thus they would influence and decide the design of public space and public buildings…