Van Schoor

Layout of a park with local resident in Schaarbeek, Brussels in April 1997.

The Pavilion neighbourhood is a densely populated and built-up area in the lower parts of Schaarbeek. The population consists mainly of children and young people below the age of 19. But there is hardly, if any, green space in the area. Besides that,the busy traffic allows children not  to play on the street on the street, and make even playing on the pavement quite a hazard

Therefore the local residents decided to create their own park on the corner of the Rue de Palais and the Rue Van Schoor. With some rolls of grass, children’s drawings the size of commercial billboards, some benches and a grassy knoll, a piece of wasteland became a park for both children and parents.  The park was created without permission of the owners of the land; once it was finished, they allowed it to stay.

Van Schoor was made by the neighbourhood committee,cultural centre the Kriekelaar and the children of Les Petits Pas.

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Ongoing projects:

L-Atlas
Precare
Generalized Empowerment
Krax
Micronomics
Cartografie
Bouillot

Publications:

Bunker Souple Repertorium 1998 & 2000: available at Citymine(d) offices.

Generalized Empowerment. Uneven Development and Urban Interventions, 2006. Download here.

MapRAC. Plannen voor het RijksAdministratief Centrum. La Cité Administrative de l'Etat en cartes & en question, 2004: available at Citymine(d) offices.

Micronomics scanning: DVD online soon.

Networkbook for Urban P/Arts. 42 initiatives capturing London's Public Space, 2004: available at Citymin(e)d offices.

Towards. Cartes Subjectives d'interventions Urbaines à Bruxelles // Subjectieve Kaarten van Stedelijke Internventies in Brussel: available at Citymine(d) offices.