Cycles 2025 Autumn
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ALL COURSES
Here you will find all the cycles of activities
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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!
📅 Data & Sprekers
🔸 Tuesday, Sep-2: Openluchtzwemmen in Brussel: Utopie of noodzaak? – Paul Steinbrück & Gérald Ledent
🔸 Tuesday, Oct-7 : Recht op protest en solidariteit: 731 dagen genocide – Suzanne Eleya, Fatima Menti, Wies De Graeve & Mohammed Kassab
🔸 Tuesday, Nov-4: Vluchtelingen en hun traject naar integratie – Pascal Debruyne, Ciska Vandendriessche & Hussein Rassim
🔸 Tuesday, Dec-4: Van digitale ongelijkheid naar digitale rechtvaardigheid? – Paola Verhaert
𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐃𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐁𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – Artful Cities
The 2025 -2026 StadsSalonsUrbains International Lecture Series aims to inspire new ways of understanding the connections between arts, culture, and the urban fabric.
📅 Data & Sprekers
🔸 Friday, Oct-10, 2025: Maria LIND – Kin Museum of Contemporary Art
🔸 Friday, Oct-24, 2025: Cara COURAGE – Culture, Communities and Place Consultant
🔸 Friday, Nov-21, 2025: Kate OAKLEY – University of Glasgow
🔸 Friday, Dec-05, 2025: Catalina Ortiz – University College London
🔸 Friday, Dec-12, 2025: Martin ZEBRACKI – University of Leeds
Brussels’ 2020 mobility plan aims to reclaim public space by reducing car use and prioritising walking, cycling, and public transport through the development of “ calmed neighbourhoods”. However, despite significant measures and pilot projects, resistance to change remains strong.
Join us for a week-long series of lunch conferences, during which these topics will be addressed by researchers, government agencies, associations, and consulting firms.
📅 Dates & Guests
🔸Monday, Nov – 3: Public space, cars and social justice
🔸Tuesday, Nov – 4: Making space for people and nature
🔸Wednesday, Nov – 5: Imagining and experimenting new street uses
🔸Thursday, Nov – 6: Implementing new street designs
🔸Friday, Nov – 7: Exhibition of the results