Call for participants: Visitatie Brussels Bouwmeester Maitre Architecte roundtables – News – Architecture Workroom Brussels

Round table discussions in the context of the ‘Visitatie’ of the Brussels Bouwmeester Maitre Architecte (BMA), 2021, Citytools

Together with Citytools, Architecture Workroom Brussels has been commissioned to conduct a collective reflection (in the form of a ‘Visitatie’) on the function of the Brussels Bouwmeester Maitre Architecte (BMA). This mission consists of evaluating the way this function is exercised today and how it has evolved since its creation. We are working towards a list of recommendations addressed to the BMA team.

In view of this assignment, Citytools and Architecture Workroom Brussels organise a series of round tables in September, aiming to bring all of the stakeholders together who directly or indirectly are involved in the work of the BMA team. The aim of these roundtables is to exchange views on the work of the team, to share opinions, impressions, evaluations and experiences with the BMA.

Each round table conversation targets one specific category of stakeholders:

- Public clients/project owners: Tuesday 14/9 from 2 pm to 4.30 pm

- Private clients/project owners: Thursday 16/9 from 9.30 am to 12 pm

- Politicians and public authorities: Thursday 16/9 from 2 pm to 4.30 pm

- Design offices architecture, landscape, urban planning, etc.): Wednesday 29/9 from 9.30 am to 12 pm

- Civil society, academia, cultural sector, media (general public and specialized): Wednesday 29/9 from 2 pm to 4.30 pm

If you belong to one of the five target groups and would like to participate in a collective reflection on the functioning of team BMA, you can register using this form.The number of places per workshop is limited to 25 people. We therefore ask only one person per organisation to participate.

The roundtable discussions will be followed by a further series of workshops in October. During the workshops, certain aspects of the BMA's work will be examined in more detail, on the basis of concrete case studies, with the ultimate aim of formulating a number of recommendations.

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Since 2010, Architecture Workroom Brussels has focused on the future of our living environment. The organisation began as a safe haven to address the link between space and societal transitions, aimed at fostering a futureproof design practice, commissioning and building culture.

It has now become evident that the transformation of our streets, neighbourhoods, and landscapes is both a prerequisite and a lever for achieving societal goals in synergy. Yet we observe that these transformations remain difficult to imagine and implement. 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. And with this refined mission comes a new name: WORKROOM, House for transformation. WORKROOM is the shared space where the future of our living environment is not only imagined but also organised.

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

SOCIETAL INCUBATORS - By 2030, stakeholders from the youth, culture, sports, care and education sectors will join forces to create renewed societal spaces that tackle loneliness and counteract the fragmentation and pressure on public infrastructure.
FOSSIL-FREE NEIGHBOURHOODS - By 2030, at least ten neighbourhoods will be underway with the transition to fossil-free energy in an inclusive and affordable way, with a view to completely phase-out fossil fuels by 2040.
SPONGE LANDSCAPES - By 2030, we will have achieved our water, agriculture and nature goals through a single, coherent approach at catchment area level, in which strong regional coalitions collectively enhance the landscape's sponge capacity.

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.

The name is simpler. The stakes are higher. WORKROOM is the shared space where we tackle the social and spatial transformations that no one can achieve alone. In an era of polarisation, compartmentalisation and instability, that is perhaps the most radical thing we can do.