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The next big thing will be a lot of small things

In the Eurodelta every square meter is claimed to store water, generate energy, produce food or live. Our territory is almost built up, and at the same time it faces incredible transformations still to come. We will need a strong framework in which as strong local coalitions can take initiative. In this context the design practice takes up a facilitating role in new projects that tackle multiple challenges at the same time. New coalitions deal with legal, financial or technical obstacles. And on new platforms, many initiatives are brought together to form an ambitious movement. → more

AWB 2010-2020

The Great Transformation

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Operation Open Space 2.0

A Good City Has Industry

A Good City Has Industry, is the provocative title of an exhibition we organised in Brussels in 2016. That was four years ago, when such an idea was tantamount to sacrilege. What do we mean, a city needs industry? Didn't we do our utmost in recent decades to clean up the city and transform abandoned industrial sites into hip, vibrant urban districts? Wasn't our aim to restore the quality of life in cities, free of pollution or the din of trucks? And wasn't our economy irrevocably transformed into a tertiary economy? Manufacturing was something based in low-wage countries, wasn't it?    

 
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OPERATION ENERGY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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