Joost Willems – OXOt vzw

OXOt vzw is an artists’ collective that runs on volunteers with a specific focus on socially integrating vulnerable people. Established in 2006, it runs spaces in Westerlo, Ghent, and Antwerp, pioneering the socialization of care, ...

Art x Research x City

ARIA’s month for Research in the Arts The Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) starts the academic year 2022-2023 with a month full of lectures, debates, performances, exhibitions, workshops and open classes on research ...

Sigrid Bosmans

Sigrid Bosmans wants to investigate how experimental practices and needs of artistic and heritage communities can give meaning to urban (Mechelen) cultural policies (participation, cooperation, and innovation). What can these experiments mean for the day ...

CULTURE TALKS Commons

Dinsdag 6 december 2022 organiseert het Departement Cultuur, Jeugd en Media de eerste editie van CULTURE TALKS; het nieuwe jaarlijkse sectorevenement voor de brede media- en cultuursector. Het Departement brengt partners en experten uit de culturele sectoren samen met ...

Vivi Touloumidi – Pharmakos

‘Pharmakos’ investigates jewellery and body adornments at times of social conflict. The symbolic and physical agenda of the wearable craft object is examined both historically and in contemporary times. Key focus is to explore the ...

Koen Wynants – Projects

Projects (as active citizen/commoner): Spilkiekes/community garden: www.spilkiekes.be A church as a common – www.fundament2060.be Community supported beekeeping Antwerp Coop of community food producers – www.coop2060.be Collective of ‘Oude Geuze’ lovers – www.bierboot.be  Board member ‘Europahuis ...

Koen Wynants – Commons Lab

Commons Lab is a grassroots, not for profit ‘socio-cultural’ organization, founded as ‘Commons Lab Antwerp’ at the end of 2017 in the city of Antwerp (Belgium). It’s an experimental lab investigating ‘commons transition’; new forms ...