Projecties 5. Verkavelingsverhalen

Residential estates often come in for a lot of criticism: too close together, too little differentiation, the ecological footprint is too big, etc. At the same time, their residents are experimenting with forms of collective habitation, small-scale business activities, generating renewable energy together, and so on. In this picture you can see very clearly how a fire escape functions as a tool to make cohousing with students possible. The exhibition, ‘Stories from the Suburbs’, makes use of these experiments to launch a broad debate on the Flemish residential estate.