Osmos Network: Insights

Rue Haute

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Redevelopment of a social 400 unit housing complex in a dense inner-city neighbourhood fit for the 21st century.

Serre de Bockstael

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Developing community-based urban agriculture in Brussels.

Heist-op-den-Berg

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Engaging stakeholders in the urban study for a new unified administrative centre.

Sonian Wood Cooperative

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Developing a cooperative to keep the wood from the Sonian Forest local.

Mission Janus

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Co-creating the ecological and equity-based transition of the COCOF schools.

Facilitator for Sustainable Neighbourhoods

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Capacity building for the Region of Brussels’ environmental agency to improve the sustainability of neighbourhood scale projects.

Connecting Nature

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A European research program (H2020) developing nature based solutions: ‘bringing nature to cities and cities to nature’.

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Personas and archetypes

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A tool to understand a target audience, by proxy.

Engaging communities in times of Corona

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Revisit to some tumultuous and insightful times.

Saving the Stadstuin

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How to build an economically liable future for an urban food haven?

Local wood as a commons

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Another take on the Sonian Wood Coop

Empathy with the non-human: the personas of soil

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Turning soil into persons through the tool of personas.

Planning with empathy: Tools to guide complex design processes

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Spatial design and territorial planning is increasingly confronted by complex challenges that could
be mitigated through a service oriented approach to design.

Designing means not ends

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Humanity has a good idea of what a sustainable future looks like, but struggles to get there. Process Design – an Explorer’s Guide

Stakeholder mapping with the Pentahelix

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Observing the crowd before getting on stage. Tool: Pentahelix stakeholder mapping

The wood of the Sonian Forest

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Cities produce vast amounts of resources, much of which goes under used or overlooked. Case study: The Sonian Wood Coop

Five options for a community greenhouse

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Food may be a secondary benefit of community supported agriculture. Case study: Serre de Bockstael

Institutions as eco-systems

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Five school campuses explore ways to reduce their environmental footprint. Case study: CERIA

Revisiting the role of a bridging actor

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Complex projects depend on good facilitators. Publication: Bridges to Local Economies

Insights

Rue Haute

Serre de Bockstael

Heist-op-den-Berg

Sonian Wood Cooperative

Mission Janus

Facilitator for Sustainable Neighbourhoods

Connecting Nature

Join the Osmos Brussels team!

Personas and archetypes

Engaging communities in times of Corona

Saving the Stadstuin

Local wood as a commons

Empathy with the non-human: the personas of soil

Designing means not ends

The wood of the Sonian Forest

Five options for a community greenhouse

Institutions as eco-systems

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