Opening up the space

The exhibition Ouvrir l'espace (Opening up the space), organised by the ICA at the Namur Cultural Centre from 3 April to 5 May 2023, invites visitors to discover six outstanding architectural and landscape projects for open and public spaces. These projects, from across Wallonia and Brussels, have been selected for the diversity of their approaches and responses. They form shared places and create convivial spaces in which to build community life and learn about citizenship and working together. They also help to enrich biodiversity in the built environment, contribute to soil permeability and, last but not least, ensure that everyone is present and represented outside the domestic environment. They are taken from the book Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles Inventaires #4 2020-2023 and are the work of architects and landscape architects Atelier Paysage, Baumans-Deffet Architecture et Urbanisme, Générale Assemblée d'architectes, MSA, Suède36 and Urban ma(r)ker.

Models, photographs, films, drawings, collages and interviews create a dialogue between these completed projects, spatial studies by experts and participatory work by citizens led by the ICA and the Centre Culturel de Namur in Namur and Temploux. Illustrator Rocío Alvarez has been commissioned to use the results of these participatory work sessions. She then created a fresco, an illustrated dialogue between the workshop participants and their ideas for opening up the space to Bomel. To support this exhibition, the ICA, again in collaboration with the Centre culturel de Namur, is offering workshops and meetings in April. These encounters will continue the reflection on a future living environment that is conducive to well-being. 

Ouvrir l'espace (Opening up the space) is also part of the cycle of exhibitions linked to the release of Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles Inventaires #4 Inventories 2020-2023 - Towards a regenerative approach of architecture. This book, piloted by the ICA and published by the Cellule architecture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, aims to promote spatial approaches, i.e. both projects and actions, capable of activating the necessary spatial, environmental and societal transition.

In partnership with the Centre culturel de Namur, the Cellule architecture and Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures.