DAY 2

Introduction Day

The day started with a briefing on the goals and planning of the workshop, Live Projects and the Winterslag settlements. Practical arrangements and issues for the week are addressed. Participants are divided in groups and assigned to each of the five sites. In contrast to the three other workshops, teachers are also assigned to a specific group and site. After this introduction, participants travel to Genk by public transport to collect their bicycles. These will be the main means of transport for the week. The bike ride from the rental to Winterslag is at once the first acquaintance with the city of Genk and the typical housing developments from the heydays of the mining era. Arriving in Winterslag, participants had a small lunch and met the actors from the community centre, the social housing company Nieuw Dak and the municipality. Each of them introduced their perspective on the issues at hand on the different sites by walking from site to site. Meanwhile , in a first instinctive reaction, the different groups reacted to all this information by building a very quick and light bamboo-installation on site, to start acting spatially on site right away and to stimulate inhabitants and passers-by to join the conversation and share their opinions.