Amina Saâdi – People – Architecture Workroom Brussels

About

Collaborator

Amina Saâdi

Amina Saâdi (she/her) is interested in identities — both visible and invisible — as they manifest on individual and collective levels. This fascination is rooted in her background in graphic design and was particularly developed through her master’s project Versailles City, carried out over two years in a social housing neighborhood in Neder-Over-Heembeek (Brussels). Her research explores notions of territory, community, and identity, approached from both personal and shared perspectives.

Amina joined the Architecture Workroom Brussels team in January 2025. She is responsible for administrative coordination, ensuring the day-to-day operations run smoothly and supporting the logistical organization of events.

She holds a master’s degree in graphic design from KASK School of Arts (Ghent) and has worked across the fields of graphic design, cultural mediation, and office management — including with Bellerose, Globe Aroma, and UTIL. Alongside her work at AWB, she maintains an independent graphic design practice and contributes to several artistic initiatives.

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.