Réappropriations

Seven architectural projects from Wallonia and Brussels by the architecture offices AgwA, Artau Architectures, Atelier Chora, Label architecture, Notan Office, Olivier Fourneau architectes and Ouest Architecture x Rotor interact with Désirs et formes d'habiter, which relates the spatial approaches of teenagers and senior citizens from Walloon Brabant, developed and collected during workshops organised by the ICA and the Maison de l'urbanisme-Centre culturel du Brabant Wallon. They then interact with two forward-looking visions: one on the regeneration potential of Louvain-la-Neuve by the Super-positions research laboratory (UCLouvain) and the other on the future of four-front villas in Walloon Brabant by vvv architecture urbanisme + Guillaume Vanneste (UCLouvain). Each of these strategies provides an answer to the initial question: "What do buildings, their sites and their territories need to remain or become relevant in the face of tomorrow's challenges? These reflections are complemented by the New Way of Life series, in which visual artist Aurélie William Levaux embroiders libels on our current living environment with a singular sense of humour.