7 Jang Hee Lee Ania Trân The word belong, from be (“around, thoroughly”) + longen (“to reach, to yearn”), originally meant to go along with. It presupposes relation to a collective larger than oneself. Belonging has a dual meaning: as emotion, an affinity with a place or community; and as object, a person’s movable possession. Yet not every possession always become a belonging tied to a collective subject. Smart-phones, for example, embody contradictions: tethering us to global networks rather than place, yet also serving as tools of solidarity, from Tahrir Square to Hong Kong, where individual devices were crucial in organise protests. This workshop invites participants to find a moment, or Form-Ritual, where personal objects resonate between place and collective subject. The storyboard is our method: a 5x5 grid on A1 paper that sequences how forms and rituals construct a sense of belonging. Participants will draw from their immediate surroundings, objects found on Antwerp’s streets, fragments of urban life, or personal items carried with them, to anchor belonging in the here and now. The format opens itself to interdisciplinary contributions: an architect’s axonometric, an artist’s collage, a product designer’s exploded view, a heritage scholar’s archival trace. Photography,sce-nography, digital tools, and performance documentation are equally welcome. The workshop unfolds in three phases: 1. Collect & observe objects and rituals of belonging. 2. Translate them into storyboard sequences. 3. Assemble the grids into a collective atla— a patchwork where individual frames interlock into a shared choreography of belonging. Our aim is not to propose utopian worlds, but to work critically with the world as it is— revealing latent conditions, questioning frameworks, and speculating on new spatial logics. The storyboard thus becomes both analytical and performative: a tool for constructing, sequencing, and sharing spatial imaginaries that oscillate between representation and reality, between what we belong to and what we long for. `
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