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    Sweco – Transforming society together “It takes a village to raise a child” This old African saying illustrates for a long time an ever-true universal value. Our communities and our living environment have become complex and its challenges are eminent. Therefore it is more than ever important to shape tomorrow’s world along the most sustainable […]

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    Alive is a Brussels-based socio-spatial design agency that enables local actors to appropriate the city. Through an empathetic and collaborative approach, we aim to make public space more livable. Our practice ranges from macro-scale urban strategies to micro-scale spatial interventions. In each project we implement a similar approach: we observe existing social and spatial situations, […]

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    Landscape architecture | landscaping … naturally In an ever more urbanized world and with a rapidly changing society, the divergent needs for exercise, recreation, meeting, and open spaces also increase. Exact compositions that bind and facilitate must create implicitly attractive and natural public spaces through which visitors can wander carefree. After all, landscape architecture does […]

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    At the intersection of landscape, infrastructure and public spaces, taktyk engages in city-making through practice, research, teaching, advocacy and curating Towards Living landscapes In the European context and beyond we are dealing with heritage sites, derelict voids, vast toxic post-industrial sites, coastlines and territories calling for regeneration The time required for adaptation is often counted in […]

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    Michel Pauwels Michel Pauwels received his Master in Landscape Architecture magna cum laude from the Horteco Vilvoorde in 1978. He completed his aggregation studies in 1980 (group T-Louvain) and obtained a degree Urban Planning at Sint-Lucas (Brussels) in 1982. After a five year teaching career, he decided to start his own design firm. Michel Pauwels […]

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