Aims, Research Questions, Methods

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.

_Rethink the water management system to locally collect and use rainwaters and transform water as a resource of Play, Refreshment and social-gathering element.

_Imagine a Refreshment and Leisure space (urban beach) designed to counter local heat-islands issues in Brussels.

Methods

_Analyse case studies to understand the capacity of Water-Play as a tool to shape common spaces.

_Question theoretical concepts of Leisure, Play and Water Interactions

_Question urban Play and Leisure infrastructures and rethink new ways of inclusive transformative Play spaces.

_Understand Brussels’ water system and ways to enjoy water interactions in the scope of fostering Play and sociointeractive potentials.

Research Questions

_What define the concepts of Leisure and Play in contemporary metropolitan settings?

_What can be retained from urban water interactions performances while allowing potentialities for non-prospective and transformative Play behaviours?

_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?

_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