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Do the Loop experience track

On Friday 6 May, Filter Café Filtré Atelier organised, in cooperation with Clean Cities, an experience walk for schools in the centre of Brussels. By doing so, they draw attention to the importance of public space that stimulates movement and thus contributes to a healthier city. A parade of 300 children and young people from 7 French- and Dutch-speaking schools, volunteers and partner organisations marched through the streets. They claimed their right to public space and were free to walk, play, dance, run and move.

The experience track of Do The Loop is based on the track of 'Sports in the city', a walking workshop organised by Architecture Workroom Brussels together with Filter Café Filtré Atelier and with the support of Brussels Mobility in November 2020. During this workshop, we looked for concrete proposals to organise sport and exercise in the public space going from an official running track in the city centre, to public playgrounds for schools or basketball courts on top of buildings. This resulted in a series of interwoven design proposals for a more liveable and healthy city.

At the end of Do The Loop, Filter Café Filtré Atelier handed over its design vision for a permanent loop within the Brussels pentagon, which will connect school streets with greenery and sports facilities, to some Brussels policy makers.

You can find the vision here

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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.