Imagine 2020

  Plants could be to the 21st century what the steam engine and the computer were to the 19th and 20th. The FoAM urban laboratory in Brussels is researching how [...]

  The Swedish-German performance artist Eva Meyer-Keller is obsessed with food. In Death is certain (in the Kaaistudio’s in 2007) she condemned a number of vegetables to death. Now she’s cooking up [...]

The French designer Damien Chivalle has put a greenhouse on top of a container housing an aquarium with fish. Their water and faeces feeds the plants in the greenhouse, which [...]

Sounds, messages and micro-stories travel through the garden of the Erasmus house, as pollen floats through air or seeds drop to the grass floor. An ingenious sensory network measures the [...]

  It’s the latest trend: producing food in the middle of the city. From allotments and urban bees to vertical farming and edible roofs, there’s no lack of initiatives. The [...]

  The artist Annemie Maes, the driving force behind OKNO, a centre for art and media technology, has installed ten beehives in two roof gardens in Brussels’ canal zone – [...]

  The documentary-maker and artist Els Dietvorst recently moved from Brussels to Ireland. From a sheep farm in Duncormick she is working on a film project and you can keep [...]

  Rivers are lifelines, sometimes open sewers, sometimes national borders… What is life like on and beside rivers? To find out, the artist’s co-operative Time’s Up, along with a number [...]

The Extra Sensorial Garden is a fictional garden that has been artificially created to stimulate the visitor’s sensory system and evoke strong physical experiences. There is not always a lot to [...]

  WE THE GARDENERS… Nature and culture; this has always been a tense relationship. Whereas culture was once meant to protect man from nature, we now have to protect nature [...]