Kolenspoor City
An imaginary future town created with paper and pencils, around a 70km coal-track of central Limburg (BE).
An experimental collaboration in urban design, during 25 workshops along 6 municipalities, with 300 citizens.
Kolenspoor City project is a temporary independent social framework where any citizen of the Limbourg region can actively play a role while re-imagining step by step the existing geographies, infrastructures, economies and activities of their lands.
The project uses the Incomplete City workshop which makes use of simple tools like paper, pencils, scissors and a copy machine, and leads to the creation of complex city systems that start from simple city elements. In Kolenspoor City project this format was applied, extended and localized as an engaging game in the Limbuorg region along the coal track — kolenspoor.
The resulting six municipality cityscapes were consequently joint in a final open workshop where combining elements and clusters, a visual image of the near future Kolenspoor City was created.
KOLENSPOOR CITY ATLAS:
During the Kolenspoor City Workshops, an atlas of elements was created. Elements include everything one would need to construct their own vision of the city: architecture, cows, trees, infrastructure, people etc. For more information on this 600 page ATLAS or to purchase visit: Kolenspoor City ATLAS.
Credits:
Project Team: Space Caviar: (Martina Muzi) in collaboration with Z33/Architectuurewijzer (Ciel Grommen).
Incomplete City: Joseph Grima, Dan Hill and Marco Ferrari.
Funded by the Flemish Government and Strategic Project Kolenspoor.
For a full list of participants: visit
Exhibition:
30/09 2017 – 08/11/2017
ZLDR Luchtfabriek
Belgium
Workshops:
14/03 2017
Houthalen-Hechteren
Genk
20/03 2017
Houthalen-Hechteren
Genk
22/03 2017
Other Market
Genk
26/03 2017
ZLDR Luchtfabriek
Zonhoven
27/03 2017
Evenementenhal
Zonhoven
02/04 2017
Luchtfabriek
Zolder
09/04 2017
Luchtfabriek
Zolder
18/04 2017
Primary school “Windekind”
Zonhoven
18/04 2017
Casino Beringen
Ravenshout
19/04 2017
Bike Ville Incubator
As
19/04 2017
Vrijetijdslocatie
As
20/04 2017
Vrijetijdslocatie
As
23/04 2017
ZLDR Luchtfabriek
Genk
24/04 2017
Other Market
Genk
29/04 2017
Neighbourhood centre Regina Mundi
Genk
08/05 2017
Other Market
Genk
01/06 2017- 01/09 2017
Tourist Office
As
