A Good City Has Industry Exhibition
An exhibition held at International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, BOZAR Brussels 2016-2017, shown again at the Felixart Gallery in Drogenbos in 2017.
The exhibition presented the architectural proposals and urban strategies developed in IABR-Atelier Brussels: The Productive Metropolis (below) for which Mark Brearley was the Atelier Meister. The exhibition represented the participation of Brussels and Flanders in the seventh edition of the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam IABR 2016 – The Next Economy. The exhibition brought together existing urban strategies and current projects which concerned retention and densification of industry in Brussels. In addition, hypothetical projects were displayed, proposed by architects, policy makers, experts, developers and entrepreneurs working together on design research projects, to briefs formulated by Mark Brearley and the project team. The exhibition presented 10 ways to build the ‘productive city’ of the future as well as showing the extensive mapping work undertaken by AAD Cities in Brussels.
Atelier Brussels program. Source: www.iabr.nl
Atelier Brussels program. Images: Carmel King
Architecture Workroom Brussels Links
A Good City Has Industry (2020) in AWB Projects and in Narratives.
Atelier Zennevallei and Atelier Zennevallei: Visitor’s Guide Expo ENG (2017).
Atelier Brussels Productive Metropolis (2016) in AWB Projects and in Narratives.
A Good City Has Industry in the Press
Architectenweb (2016). ‘BOZAR: A Good City Has Industry’. Architectenweb.
Architectura (2016) ‘Tentoonstelling: A Good City Has Industry’. Architectura.be.
De Standaard (2016). ‘Brussel lijkt stilaan op Londen. Géén compliment’. Standaard, 27 October. English summary available here.
Group Ginger (2016). ‘Brussels – Holding onto Industry; “A Good City has Industry”’. Group Ginger.
La Chronique (2016). ‘Cachez cette industrie que personne ne veut voir’. La Chronique, 4 November.
NYArts (2016). ‘Exhibition A Good City Has Industry at BOZAR – Ravenstein Gallery’ NY Arts Magazine.
Storyrunner (2017). ‘Atelier Brussels – The productive metropolis’. Storyrunner.
Atelier Brussels
Steering group: perspective.brussels, bMa, OVAM, Ruimte Vlaanderen, Province of Vlaams-Brabant, POM Vlaams-Brabant, IABR, Architecture Workroom Brussels.
Atelier Master: Brearley & AAD (Cass) Cities, London Metropolitan University.
Design Research: plusoffice architects, WRKSHP collectif; CENTRAL, Eva Le Roi and Maxime Del-vaux; URA, Yves Malysse and Kiki Verbeeck); Space-lab. be; Fabric, ULB (LoUIsE and BATir).
Circle Economy Publication: A+ Architecture in Belgium.
Exhibition Production
Curator: Architecture Workroom Brussels
Co-production: IABR, AWB, BOZAR Coordination: Iwan Strauven, Francis Carpentier (BOZAR)
Scenography: 51N4E
Graphic design: Ward Heirwegh
Photogaphy: Bas Bogaerts
Text: Joeri De Bruyn, Architecture Workroom Brussels
Translation: Nathalie Callens (FR), Lisa Page (ENG), Sandra Atterbury (ENG) Films: Storyrunner, Jonathan Ortegat, Bertrand Lafontaine Producers: Vidisquare, Milo-profi, zwartopwit, Lettershop Edegem, Nick Dewilde, Atelier Verstrepen, ASAP, PMR.
A Good City Has Industry, 2016 BOZAR exhibition. Photographs: Tim Van de Velde.
Exhibition opening, A Good City Has Industry, BOZAR, 2016. Photograph: Renaud Schrobiltgen.
Atelier Brussels workshop at BOZAR 2016. Photograph: Jonathan Ortegat.
