Right to the City - Right to the Future

Aperçu : écrit avant l'ouverture de l'exposition

Right next to Kanal is the Quartier Nord, where whole neighbourhoods were torn down in peacetime in the name of progress. Brussels has a word for it: Brusselisation. The first show by Kanal Architecture, the former CIVA, starts from that scar.

Instead of the usual picture of a dysfunctional capital, it argues that the city's tensions made it a laboratory for other ways of building. You move from the Archives d'architecture moderne and the Sint-Lukasarchief, both born in the late 1960s, to current practices such as Rotor and Decoratelier, and Aglaia Konrad's Demolition City. Two new pieces take on rights directly: Adelita Husni Bey's participatory Convention on the Use of Space - Brussels, and HouseEurope!'s EU-wide Right to Housing campaign.

It is free, with no ticket or registration, in Room 4. Workshops, city excursions, a film series called Bruxelles Imaginaire and a podcast run alongside it. Hours are Wednesday to Sunday 11:00 to 19:00, Thursdays until 20:00.