SUGGESTIONS FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE SOCIAL PROGRAM IN GENK
Thor Central brought prosperity, urban development and energy to the region starting in the 1920s. Today, the former mining site is the beating heart of the Thor Park site, which houses, among other things, a Flanders Heritage Venue (see page 61).
© Koen Vanmechelen
LABIOMISTA is an evolving artwork by Koen Vanmechelen about the mix of life. This 24-hectare park is an incubator where humans, animals and nature move together. It is an open-air laboratory that invites your delegates to search for a new future together.
© Stad Genk
At C-Mine, thousands of miners once took the elevator down into the mineshaft to dig up coal 800 meters underground. Today this site - which includes a Flanders Heritage Venue (see page 59) - is an atypical cultural site where architecture and industrial heritage reign supreme.
13
