Cycles 2025 Spring

Sharpen your brain in the afternoon with hot topics and a hot bowl of soup. Engaging speakers dissect topical issues with a Brussels angle. Difficult issues are explained in a more accessible way. Afterwards, there is time for questions and reflections from the audience.

Food for body and soul, every first Tuesday of the month!

📅 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 & 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬
🔸 Tuesday, Feb-4: Geen vuiltje aan de lucht? – Zoë Jacquet & Eva Forceville

🔸 Tuesday, March – 4: Geloven in de stad – Bianca Debaets, Tim Brys & Naïma Lafrarchi

🔸 Tuesday, April – 1 : We parlons Brusseleir – Jean Marc Dewaele

🔸 Tuesday, June – 3: Spontane stad –  Frederik Ceulemans, Maarten Wyns & Omar Kashmiry

3 Evening debates, 3 cities (Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent).

Our cities are places where complex challenges converge. At the same time (or because of that?), they are a promising testing ground where people are figuring out new ways of living together for the rest of the country.

What can we learn from our cities? And what can they learn from each other? To explore that “Steden, labo’s voor de Toekomst” brings together Flemish cities, libraries and academics around various social issues. Hear from specialists, listen to the stories of resourceful residents and learn about surprising experiments.

MORE INFO:

https://muntpunt.be/stedenlabosvoordetoekomst

📅 Dates & Speakers
🔸Thursday, Feb-13, Brussels: Wonen voor iedereen – Daryacu, Collectief Goed, Woonbox, Arc-en-Ciel
🔸Saturday, Feb-22, Antwerp: Een rechtvaardig klimaat voor iedereen – Met The Feminist City, Angela.D, MyEcoLifestyle
🔸Thursday, Feb-27, Ghent: De stad is van iedereen – Met Onze Tuin, Zinneke, Ocup vzw

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐃𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐁𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞

The 2025 StadsSalonsUrbains International Lecture Series dives into these pressing issues, exploring urban infrastructures of welfare from diverse theoretical and thematic angles.

📅 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 & 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬
🔸 Friday, Mar-7, 2025: Silke VON DYK – University of Jena
🔸 Thursday, Mar-13, 2025: Isabelle ANGUELOVSKI – Autonomous University of Barcelona
🔸 Friday, Mar-21, 2025: Julie FROUD – University of Manchester
🔸 Friday, Mar-28, 2025: Lia KARSTEN – University of Amsterdam
🔸 Friday, Apr-4, 2025: Stavros STAVRIDES – National Technical University Athens

4 workshops on artificial intelligence, digital twins and urban transformation

Dive into the heart of Data & The City 2025 (Brussels Academy X Fari), a series of workshops in which artificial intelligence and digital twins take centre stage in urban transformations. Will these technologies really revolutionise the management and development of our cities?

Decision-makers, researchers and citizens are invited to reflect together on urban challenges in the light of these new visualisation and simulation techniques.

Four key themes will be addressed during the workshops: the opportunities and challenges associated with this technology, its potential to help manage the risks associated with climate change, the possibility of integrating citizen participation into such a system, and the prospects it may offer for specific sectors such as heritage preservation.

📅 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 & 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬
🔸 Thursday, Mar-20, 2025: Introduction to digital twins
🔸 Thursday, Mar-27, 2025:  Digital twins and citizen participation
🔸 Thursday, April-03, 2025: Urban resilience and environmental issues
🔸 Thursday, April-10, 2025: Conversation and reinvention of urban heritage

4 great ‘Brussels’ movie screenings with English subtitles in the presence of the filmmakers.

Brussels is often reinvented in brilliant films. This programme offers a look at ‘changed and changing’ Brussels (by day and by night) during the 80s (‘Toute une nuit’), at the beginning of the 21st century (‘Eva est au placard’) and in contemporary movies such as ‘La nuit se traîne’ (2024) and ‘BXL’ (2024)

📅 Dates & Guests
🔸Tuesday, Jan-14: Opening lecture – Alex Stockman
🔸Tuesday, Feb-11: ‘Toute une nuit’ – Chantal Akerman
🔸Tuesday, Mar-25: ‘La nuit se traîne’ – Michiel Blanchart
🔸Tuesday, May-6: ‘BXL’ – Ish & Monir Ait Hamou