Flashback to 2021 - Brussels - Realty fair - We were discussing respectful repurposing of heritage buildings with Matthias Diependaele, then Flemish minister of the budget and heritage and since September 30th, 2024 Minister-President of Flanders. We still have a lot to discuss!
August 2024 - Cité du Vin - Bordeaux (FR) - It works for now, but separrate devices will soon be a thing of the past. A seamless customer experience starts and ends at home.
August 2024 - Museu de Serralves - Porto (P) - Japanese icon Yayoi Kusama plunges you in her world of dots and reflections. And we just let her.
June 2024 - Upon invitation of Senatorin Karen Pein, we were a keynote speaker in the "Sommergespräch Städtebau" about creative neighbourhoods organised by the urban planning authorities of the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg. With Ben van der Meer (r.) Stadsbouwmeester of Groningen (NL) and Tim Rettler (l.) Principal Regenration Officer for Greater London (UK).
June 2024 - Vilvoorde (B) - Developing is thinking ahead: immersive experience at Living Tomorrow at the invitation of BDO.
June 2024 - Keynote speech at the Annual General Meeting of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie France-Belgique. My storybook includes a remarkably dynamique design industry around the city of Lyon, encounters with Renzo Piano and the direct impact of the burning of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on an ambitious project in Brussels.
October 2023 - Brussels - Always happy to propose contributions to the development of Brussels inner city.
May 2024 - Antwerp Town Hall - Always impressed by the "Schoon Verdiep" (Beautiful Floor) of the historic Antwerp town hall.Can't help but thinking this building is not energy efficient but more sustainable then every other recent edifice.
December 2023 - Antwerp - We start working on a comprehensive business plan and feasibility study to transform the iconic and listed monument "loodswezen" site into a regional culinary centre. This is definitely the kind of challenge we love. The beginning of a true adventue
October 2023 - Geneva (CH) - Catching up over lunch with Adelina von Fürstenberg, renowned curator of contemporary art, editor and producer. We collaborated on promoting the "Playgrounds and Toys" project to the EU in 2005 and have been on the board of "Art for the World Europe" a UN-backed NGO promoting social cohesion and relief through art.
November 2021 - Molenbeek (Brussels) - Laure Prouvost is something else : winner of the Turner Prize in 2013 and representing her native France in the 2019 Venice biennale, she moved to Brussels where she's building a new atelier (hence the construction site in the background). We had a great introduction to her work, with cake and and stories of genuine interest in mankind's role in nature.