Aims _Understand the Leisure infrastructure of Brussels and induce a new network of transformative and non-prospective Play behaviours linked to water interaction. _Reconsider a capitalistic project intention into a more local and neighbourhood sized anti-hegemonic and inclusive proposal shaped around commoning practices of Water and Play management.
Research Questions _What define the concepts of Leisure and Play in contemporary metropolitan settings?
_Rethink the water management system to locally collect and use rainwaters and transform water as a resource of Play, Refreshment and social-gathering element.
_What can be retained from urban water interactions performances while allowing potentialities for non-prospective and transformative Play behaviours?
_Imagine a Refreshment and Leisure space (urban beach) designed to counter local heat-islands issues in Brussels.
_How to design an activating project, on a public plaza, for a local community of commoners with the intention to define an inclusive and free space?
Methods _Analyse case studies to understand the capacity of Water-Play as a tool to shape common spaces. _Question theoretical concepts Leisure, Play and Water Interactions
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_Question urban Play and Leisure infrastructures and rethink new ways of inclusive transformative Play spaces.
_How to rethink the urban water management system of Brussels to make it enjoyable for transformative Play and Leisure behaviours while allowing refreshment and circular management of the resource ? _How to foster an Urban Commons community in the modernist and hegemonic Pacheco Administrative Centre of Brussels
_Understand Brussels’ water system and ways to enjoy water interactions in the scope of fostering Play and sociointeractive potentials.
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