Waiting Spaces

This paper investigates interactions across different sectors within Brussels City Region with
Flemish and Walloon City Regions. We rely on existing CIS data (Community Innovation
Survey) for the periods of 2008-2010, 2010-2012 from which stratified sample is taken and
multivariate probit model is applied. A comparison is made between innovation active
companies located in three hierarchies of city regions (city and its agglomeration) Brussels City
Region (international administrative and service oriented capital city) is used as benchmark for
four large city regions (Antwerp, Liège, Ghent, Charleroi)

This article discusses the topic of temporary use of Waiting Spaces in the framework of the Solidary Mobile Housing Design Studio, organised as part of the Innoviris Co-create project ‘SWOT-Mobile’. We claim that this project is an illustration of how safeguarding the solidary character of temporary use of Waiting Spaces with citizens in need can help establishing landscape democracy. First we elaborate on the methods we developed and tested to empower houseless people, who usually don’t have a say in their housing situation, and how we put them at the heart of the project. Then we illustrate how fostering a dialogue about urban Waiting Spaces with different stakeholders (students, houseless, NGOs, experts and authorities) in the design studio, created opportunities for spatial and community development. We describe how the Solidary Mobile Housing Design Studio turned urban Waiting Spaces into ‘spaces of negotiation’ where questions on the city were raised and experimentation and in...

This article discusses the topic of temporary use of Waiting Spaces in the framework of the Solidary Mobile Housing Design Studio, organised as part of the Innoviris Co-create project ‘SWOT-Mobile’. We claim that this project is an illustration of how safeguarding the solidary character of temporary use of Waiting Spaces with citizens in need can help establishing landscape democracy. First we elaborate on the methods we developed and tested to empower houseless people, who usually don’t have a say in their housing situation, and how we put them at the heart of the project. Then we illustrate how fostering a dialogue about urban Waiting Spaces with different stakeholders (students, houseless, NGOs, experts and authorities) in the design studio, created opportunities for spatial and community development. We describe how the Solidary Mobile Housing Design Studio turned urban Waiting Spaces into ‘spaces of negotiation’ where questions on the city were raised and experimentation and in...

La revue scientifique électronique pour les recherches sur Bruxelles / Het elektronisch wetenschappelijk tijdschrift voor onderzoek over Brussel / The e-journal for academic research on Brussels Collection générale | 2013 The role of temporary use in urban (re)development: examples from Brussels De rol van tijdelijk gebruik in de stedelijke (her)ontwikkeling: Brusselse voorbeelden Le rôle de l'usage temporaire dans le (re)développement urbain : exemples bruxellois

УДК 338.433 :332.154 Ю. В. Прудніков 1 аспірант * Житомирський національний агроекологічний університет ПРИНЦИПИ ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ МЕЖ ЛОКАЛЬНИХ РИНКІВ СІЛЬСЬКОГОСПОДАРСЬКОЇ ПРОДУКЦІЇ Розглянуто принципи формування меж локальних ринків сільськогосподарської продукції з урахуванням соціально-інституційних характеристик заданого економічного простору. Встановлено, що гнучкість меж локального ринку визначається зміною щільності представлення попиту чи пропозиції, розвиненістю ринкової інфраструктури в межах територіального ареалу, а також наявністю певного соціального капіталу у ринкових агентів. Обґрунтовано гіпотезу про те, що утворення локального ринку може бути результатом інтеграції для об'єднання окремих ринкових угод в одному місці або дезінтеграції ринкового простору внаслідок застосування бар'єрів інституційного характеру. Визначені напрями реалізації заходів державної політики, що оптимізують процес формування локальних ринків сільськогосподарської продукції у контексті подолання монополізму та забезпечення конкурентного середовища. Ключові слова: локальний ринок, інституціоналізація відносин, сепарація економічного простору, інтеграція угод, ринкова інфраструктура, гнучкість територіальних меж.

This article discusses the topic of temporary use of Waiting Spaces in the framework of the Solidary Mobile Housing Design Studio, organised as part of the Innoviris Co-create project ‘SWOT-Mobile’. We claim that this project is an illustration of how safeguarding the solidary character of temporary use of Waiting Spaces with citizens in need can help establishing landscape democracy. First we elaborate on the methods we developed and tested to empower houseless people, who usually don’t have a say in their housing situation, and how we put them at the heart of the project. Then we illustrate how fostering a dialogue about urban Waiting Spaces with different stakeholders (students, houseless, NGOs, experts and authorities) in the design studio, created opportunities for spatial and community development. We describe how the Solidary Mobile Housing Design Studio turned urban Waiting Spaces into ‘spaces of negotiation’ where questions on the city were raised and experimentation and in...

Cities are dynamic entities in perpetual evolution. Through this process, vacant spaces tend to appear under different circumstances. Certainly, empty and abandoned lots in a dense urban fabric are easily locatable. That their state persists over a considerable period is what makes them remarkable. This phenomenon may be viewed from different perspectives by urban planners, architects, geographers, economists, environmentalists, sociology academics and policymakers. Therefore, multiple data, parameters and definitions are in play. This multidisciplinary combination could quickly create a terminology issue in the scientific body related to urbanism and open space design. This paper presents an overview of the definitions of urban vacant spaces, taking into consideration the various perspectives. While following the timeline and the changes in the interpretations of the vacant urban space, it becomes evident how this phenomenon came from a problem of failed urban design to a possible ...

Performative urbanism as design strategy for urban commons. Research-by-design on collective visioning and place-making in Brussels. (3E150026)

Promotor : Verbeke Johan (+)-Architecture, Campuses Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent (+)
Co-promotor(s) Pak Burak (+)-Architecture, Campuses Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent (+)

Duration :
13/11/2014 - 13/11/2018
Doctorandus :
Van Reusel Hanne - Doctoral Programme in Architecture (Brussels) - Faculty of Architecture

Project summary : The PhD aims to gain more insight in processes of collective place-making in which communities imagine, explore and construct – manifest – the values they envision in the spatial reality, often in the margins of space and time. Starting from the background of participatory design and the Brussels context, the concept of performative urbanism is explored. Through this perspective the PhD is aimed to reveal the potential meaning of collective place-making processes in Brussel's spatial reality. As a design proposition it is argued that the proliferation of these collective processes, which both envision and act for a different socio-spatial reality, manifest a critical alternative for our city. To support this design both the concept and practice of performative urbanism are studied through an action research that takes part in the Incubators of Public Spaces project (JPI Urban Europe) which entails a living lab in the Brussels setting. The Incubators project is aimed to support these kind of self-organised place-making processes through the development of a co-creative software which targets to contribute to a more participatory urban planning. This tool is being developed and will be experimented through this action research as one of the three participating living labs. The action research focusses on the Josaphat site, a huge publically owned land that is awaiting it future development, where an amalgam of place-making processes are staged. These vary from art interventions, over an organically growing community garden, to the co-creation of a vision on the future development of the site. There are significant differences in scale and ambition, but all of these processes show to combine a vision on how the city could be organised differently with a focus on sustainable well-being and act to manifest these desired values in the spatial reality.

Across Europe, urban areas are growing and regenerating themselves according to a combination of individual self-interest and strategic planning. These are well-intentioned but the results are unpredictable. The multiplication of individually satisfactory developments and interventions may still be collectively sub-optimal, as seen in the case of urban sprawl, which is a potent spatial expression of modern society. In this age of complexity, participatory planning has been discussed in theory but only partly realised in practice, as it can lack the practical tools to harness the full potential of distributed decision-making. Over the last decade, an alternative, more social view of e-participation has emerged: systems gain intelligence from both digital and human elements. People actively engage in systems as participants, and as a consequence can contribute their considerable knowledge and expertise to systems. Co-creation, crowdcreativity, smart applications and urban simulations offer a diversity of potential solutions but these are often dislocated from social consequences, power relations, and conventional processes of planning, design and democratic governance. In this context, the Incubators Project aims at advancing self-organization of urban areas, through active participation. The self-organising approach encourages and exploits the dynamics of the urban systems, towards more socially resilient places. The proposed Incubators are expected to operate in an era of eroding local funding, and of conjunctural shortening of private partnerships. Further self-organisation is in the financial support to the transformations, through crowdfunding.

Doorheen de voorbije twee eeuwen werden steden alsmaar groter en raakten ze steeds dichter bebouwd, waardoor bewoners in toenemende mate te kampen kregen met een gebrek aan open ruimte. Met dit onderzoek willen we ervoor pleiten om de tijdelijke, seminatuurlijke open ruimtes in de stad te herwaarderen.

Preface This contribution fits in the project: 'The Role of Temporary Use of Voids in Urban (Re)development', a PhD research supported by Inoviris in the framework of Prospective Research for Brussels 2008. In this project we claim that it is it possible to steer, influence and/or trigger urban transformations by means of temporary use of vacant city spaces (urban voids). We are investigating if proposals for the elaboration of innovative urban development strategies could be derived from temporary projects.

De hedendaagse stad, ook wel aangeduid als de postindustriële stad, is een complexe omgeving geworden, waarin het niet altijd vanzelfsprekend is om de bestaande ruimtelijke condities en de diverse claims met elkaar te verenigen. Dit wordt bovendien nog bijkomend bemoeilijkt door de huidige economische en ecologische crisissen. Binnen deze context stellen we vast dat onze conventionele planningsopvattingen & ‐instrumenten niet altijd meer effectief (b)lijken. Deze situatie heeft aanleiding gegeven tot het ontstaan van een veelheid aan experimenten rond alternatieve en vernieuwende benaderingen.

Brussels derives much of its international first-name familiarity from being the Capital of Europe. Local inhabitants are far more hesitant to take this European dimension for granted: they tend to consider "Europe" as a newcomer who is yet to establish a proper identity amidst an exceedingly multifarious host society.

Steden zijn voortdurend in transformatie. Ten gevolge van veranderende behoeften, gebruikers en visies wordt er zonder ophouden aan de stedelijke ruimte gesleuteld. Maar omdat de cyclus van ingebruikname, verlating en hergebruik van de ruimte niet altijd continu is, kent elke stad periodiek verlaten en verwaarloosde plekken. Dan vallen er -tijdelijk -gaten in de stad.

− Er is een conflict waar te nemen tussen de traditionele, systematische manier van ruimtelijke ontwikkeling en de nood aan een meer hedendaagse, flexibele en spontane manier, aan de hand waarvan sneller kan gereageerd worden op (maatschappelijke) veranderingen.