Articles

Last year, the partners of Commoning Europe came to Brussels from January 25 through 27. The group decided, after the Belgians’ added value to the other visits, that a visit to Brussels was in its place.

On March 6th 2023, Brussels became the European center of urban rainwater management for a short moment. London, Copenhagen, Paris and Brussels revealed their plans to avoid floods and sewage overflows. We hope that the information will live on after the conference, so don’t hesitate to view, review and share the different presentations.

The dérive of Super Terram was a playful, creative and collective wandering from which alternative stories emerged for Schaerbeek-Formation as well as for life related to the soils that are there.

Lot of news from the Brussels' urbanism front. Our eye fell on two items we followed from up close: the tower fetish in the European quarter and an automatic percentage of public - not yet social - housing to developments.

From April 4 to 8, Toha, Yannick and Hanne were out and about in Florence, Italy. We bring you a short impression of four days of the JTSE (Joint Staff Training Event) in Campi di Bisenzio in Italy for Commoning Europe, our Erasmus+ project.

Commoning Europe propells a rediscovery of the public good as the foundation of Europe. For this project, we made an English version of the video "Plan B Josaphat". Plan B wants to preserve nature and keep Josaphat in public hands.

Man, plant and animal are at stake on the Brussels Josaphat site. The Brussels government will have to choose. Does it want to be the last government of the 20th century or the first government of the 21st century?

BRAL and other environmental NGOs found some pitfalls in the digitalization agenda for a green transition of the EU.

The Brussels’ civil servants who attended the final visit and round table of the CitizenDev project do not seem scared to co-create. We embarked on a journey to search for ways how to co-create communities, using their own assets.

Wijkbewoners en verenigingen voeren de druk op voor een moratorium van de RPA’s (richtplannen van aanleg) in Brussel in een nieuw platform ‘Bas les PAD’. BRAL steunt het platform, omdat de eisen overeenkomen met de onze.

Last weekend, Schaerbeek residents painted this mandala to (try to) slow down cars and improve traffic safety.

It turned out to be a hot Spring in Berlin as we arrived in the midst of debates about the temporary use of land, renting madness and urban commons. Topics we’re not entirely unfamiliar with in Brussels …