We are currently facing a crisis of imagination.

We are aware of the societal challenges and their urgency – in relation to water, energy, agriculture, care, mobility, and the circular economy. We know that the transformation of our streets, neighbourhoods, and landscapes is essential to address them. Yet this transformation remains difficult to imagine and even harder to implement.

This leads to an implementation gap.

There is a gap between what we, as a society, aspire to and what we are realising in our living environment today. They  span so  many  sectors  and  involve so many actors that  responsibility  falls on  everyone, and therefore, ultimately, on  no one. 

That is why we  make it our mission to create the space that connects them.

WORKROOM is the shared space where we tackle the social and spatial transformations that no one can achieve alone. It is where we imagine a desirable future for our living environment, and co-design the pathways to get there.

We are developing a practice and a culture of transformation that facilitates the transition to an environment with higher spatial quality, thriving ecosystems, responsible value chains, and collective prosperity and well-being.

We are currently taking the lead on three mission-driven transformations: 

• societal incubators

• fossil-free neighbourhoods

• sponge landscapes

To make these transformations a reality,  WORKROOM works shoulder to shoulder with pioneering designers, local authorities, organisations and businesses, governments, knowledge  institutions  and impact investors.   

Through co-creative design, we imagine  shared pathways to the future in exhibitions, publications, innovation  programmes  and public programmes. These are the workrooms where we  connect  the actors capable of realising these transformations. From there, we design shared ownership and the organisational, funding and policy models that lead to real  change. 

WORKROOM bases its activities in Brussels, Flanders and the Netherlands, and in the wider river delta of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt as a coherent spatial system. As the capital of Europe, Brussels serves as our base and acts as a gateway to international networks.