Mural workshop

2021, Brussels, Belgium

KU Leuven

As part of the design studio I attended at KU Leuven, we had a workshop on the integration of homeless people into society. We spent a whole semester in a homeless shelter, where we learned about their lives and their hardships and at the same time appreciated what we have much more. Thedesign studio itself was about the social injustices that happen in society and how we as architects could improve it. And this workshop was a way of getting closer to people with whom we have nothing in common at first sight.

When we started the workshop, it was necessary to find a way to approach such people. We finally managed to do that with different games like jenga and sign language, because English was more foreign to them. But we just found a common language, either with jenga or with drawing on the wall, and in the end we worked together, connected in a special way and, what was essential, had fun and forgot about the differences between us.