In the context of the NaturArchy exhibition, and as part of its public engagement programme, the Le Biais Vert collective presented Nos Futurs Radio, a temporary mediation space that brings to life the fictional world of Diamant Palace web series, produced in 2022. This radio station is a tool for meeting the players re-enchanting relations between humans and non-humans, inventing, dreaming, thinking or telling stories of possible futures.
Joining forces with Radio Campus, the broadcasts took place throughout June and July 2024 on Saturday afternoons, giving voice to artists, collectives, associations, activists, and all people located in Belgium who concretely work to rethink ways of inhabiting the city and the world and believe that we can rebuild relationships with living things without harming them.
As part of the programme of events around the NaturArchy exhibition opening, Saturday 25th May was the kick-off event titled: Nonhuman lives in Brussels, with Tom et Nicolas Valckenaere, plastic artists and amateur naturalists; Chloé Vanden Berghe, ULB researcher on Brussels fauna; Félicien Bogaerts and Elias Sanhaji from the Le Biais Vert collective.
All broadcasts are open to the public, aired on radio and on the Le Biais Vert YouTube channel.
25/05/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO : Nonhuman lives in Brussels
Saturday 25th May was the kick-off event as part of the NaturArchy exhibition opening titled: Nonhuman lives in Brussels, with Tom et Nicolas Valckenaere, plastic artists and amateur naturalists; Chloé Vanden Berghe, ULB researcher on Brussels fauna; Félicien Bogaerts and Elias Sanhaji from the Le Biais Vert collective.
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What: A radio show by Le Biais Vert
When: Saturday 25th May 2024; 16:00-18:00
Where: Location: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
Language: French
Part of: NaturArchy exhibition
01/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Demineralize and revitalize the city
The first meeting spotlights the Dallas Collective, through Salomon explaining the Casse-Dalle project carried out in partnership with Gilbard.
Casse-Dalle means to perforate, core, saw, find the ground. To draw, compose, assemble, build. Using simple processes, to transform an inhospitable space into a lively, welcoming and recreational place. Together transforming a concrete slab, a parking lot, into a minimalistic garden. For NaturArchy, Casse-Dalle offers a series of workshops around the transformation of the 43B slab into a garden.
Gilbard is a non-profit organization based in Anderlecht since 2019, which works starting from reused materials to designing local projects around art and design. Experiment, Exchange, Promote: the collective carries out different activities around a place of life and exchange. The recovery and barter of materials, the pooling of resources, local activation, experimentation in arts and design and the management of local design projects.
For several years, Dallas has been developing research focused on soil demineralization. Its vision revolves around the creation of occasional green spaces directly linked to the urban environment, halfway between gardens and urban wastelands.
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What: A radio show by Le Biais Vert & Radio Campus with Collectif Dallas, Gilbard
When: Saturday 01st June 2024; 17:30-18:30
Where: Location: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
Language: French
Part of: NaturArchy exhibition
08/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: On the ruins of capitalism, the Josaphat wasteland
The second meeting gave the floor to a collective which has organized itself to protect the Josaphat wasteland, a 24-hectare plot of land in the heart of the Brussels region, on the border between Schaerbeek and Evere. It is a former marshalling yard that was gradually transformed into a biodiversity reserve. It is home to numerous species (nearly 1,200 observed, including 112 birds, 120 bees, 33 butterflies and 32 dragonflies). It is a unique place, a refuge for wildlife otherwise chased from its natural habitat (spreading of pesticides, soil mineralization, etc.) and which must be preserved from extinction.
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What: A radio show by Le Biais Vert & Radio Campus with Sauvons la friche Josaphat
When: Saturday 08th June 2024; 17:30-18:30
Where: Location: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
Language: French
Part of: NaturArchy exhibition
15/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Justice for green spaces in Brussels
We are nature spoke at the third meeting. This association brings together citizen collectives and local endeavours to preserve the natural spaces and living soils of Brussels. The association also fights for a social ecology and a right of access to green spaces for the most precarious social classes.
Faced with the destruction of these spaces in Brussels, the We Are Nature.Brussels association was formed by citizens to launch legal action and remind the regional government of its responsibilities. That it keep its environmental commitments and stop issuing authorizations to build on natural spaces in Brussels. The case is currently ongoing.
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What: A radio show by Le Biais Vert & Radio Campus with We are nature.Brussels
When: Saturday 15th June 2024; 17:30-18:30
Where: Location: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
Language: French
Part of: NaturArchy exhibition
22/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: The resistance of Belgian agricultural practices
The fourth meeting gave the floor to the Farmer Action Brigades, an association of citizens from various backgrounds who want to defend peasant agriculture, their right to food, develop agro-ecology, promote the green-transition and contribute to the advent of an agricultural model based on the principles of food sovereignty.
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What: A radio show by Le Biais Vert & Radio Campus with Brigades d’actions paysannes
When: Saturday 22nd June 2024; 17:30-18:30
Where: Location: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
Language: French
Part of: NaturArchy exhibition
13/07/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Re-enchanting our relationship with the living through art
The fifth public meeting featured Coline Ramonet-Bonis, visual artist currently showcasing her work, Aqueous Memories at the NaturArchy exhibition. Her multidisciplinary practice comes to life in installations, immersive worlds that she considers as heterotopias, that is to say other places. Interior cabins, fractures where landscapes and narratives unfold, constructed on the edges between the real and the virtual, science and magic.
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What: A radio show by Le Biais Vert & Radio Campus with Coline Ramonet-Bonis
When: Saturday 13th July 2024; 16:30-18:00
Where: Location: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
Language: French
Part of: NaturArchy exhibition
20/07/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + Radio Campus : Combining the right to housing and the right to life
The sixth and final public meeting gave the floor to IEB (Inter-Environnement Brussels). For fifty years, the association has brought together collectives, groups and committees of residents of Brussels who are mobilizing to preserve their neighborhoods, their living conditions and their environments. For the IEB, the meeting between environmental justice and social justice is essential to make the city habitable for all and requires, to achieve this, the establishment of real urban democracy.
With Cataline Sénéchal and Stéphanie D'Haenens, in charge of Inter-Environnement Brussels’ mission.
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